Final Thoughts?

We spent an entire semester thinking about "religion in the South" as well as talking about the ins and outs of writing an analytical research paper.  That work culminated in a 20-25 page paper!  Feeling proud, right?  You should.  After all that writing, your final post is a freebie: give any final reflections--on your ideas about religion and the South, on the writing/research process, a post or reading about which you have more to say, etc., etc.  Thanks for contributing to a successful and productive semester! 

Women and Religion

Last week, we read an essay called "Women and Southern Religion," in which the author (a little too quickly) divides camps of scholarly focus into 1) what religion does to women and 2) what religion does for women.  Too facile a dichotomy, many of us agreed in class.  But that said, here were the clips I mentioned (a couple of which you watched) where, even in the name of progressive gender politics, people discuss "women" in limiting ways.


First, journalist (and great-great grandson of Charles Darwin) Matthew Chapman:





Then, popular author/journalist Christopher Hitches:




Lastly, non-fiction writer on science and religion, Sam Harris: