THRS 3250 - Religion as Resistance to Structural Injustice

5 credit hours
Structural injustice refers to the injustice that certain groups of people experience as a result of the way in which power and privilege are arranged in a social context. Racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and North Americanism are common forms. Structural injustice occurs through cultural imperialism, disproportionate distribution of ecological damage, economic exploitation, political oppression, social marginalization, and other mechanisms. Throughout history religion has been a force for perpetuating structural injustice and a force for resisting it. This course will theorize the role of religious traditions in resistance to structural injustice, and will apply theory to religiously-grounded resistance in varied global contexts.