Friday, August 24, 2018

IN the NEWS - Academia acts out Gen. 6:5

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts
of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 6:5
 
"The nation’s college students will have the option of taking classes discussing “queering childhood,” “queering the Bible” and “transgender Christs,” according to a report by CampusReform.com. 

Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., is offering the new class on Queering Childhood,
which will discuss “the figure of the Child and how this figuration is used by politics, law, and medicine to justify continued cultural investment in reproductive heteronormativity and productive ablebodiedness.” Campus Reform added that the class will focus on childhoods of “queer and crip children,” and will spotlight works related to “gender studies, childhood studies, disability studies, and queer theory.”

Eugene Lang College in New York City will offer a class on “Queering and Decolonizing Theology,” which will examine “the sexual ethics and ritualization found in the S&M community,” and “transgender Christs.”  

Harvard Divinity School will be offered a class on “Queer Theologies, Queer Religions.”

Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pa., will offer a “Queering the Bible” class that says it “destabilizes long held assumptions about what the [B]ible—and religion—says about gender and sexuality.” ChristianHeadlines