Michelle de Beixedon, Ph.D. Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley.
Trinity 240
(530) 898-5108
mdebeixedon@csuchico.edu

I teach courses in Comparative Religion and Women and Religion. I am interested in exploring ways in which phenomenology informs the study of religion. My current research has been in the areas of Sociology of Religion and Religion and Society, specifically on how the religious categories of sacred/profane and pure/impure function implicitly to legitimate social structures of subordination and hierarchy. My doctoral research focused on religion and the category of Otherness in the philosophy of the French existentialist, Simone de Beauvoir. In it I explore ways in which feminist political philosophy together with a critical theory of religion have the potential to provide alternative models of human community. My teaching responsibilities include RS 182 World Religions and Global Issues, RS 140 Women and Religion, RS 10 Intro to Religious Studies and WMST 133 Women Internationally.

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