Megan Goodwin
Visiting Lecturer of Religion, Program Director of Sacred Writes
Megan Goodwin is a scholar of gender, sexuality, race, and contemporary American minority religions. Her current book project, Women and Children Last: Sex, Abuse, and American Minority Religions, explores the coding of religious difference as sexual danger. Her next project considers the ways contemporary American whiteness is (or feels) threatened by Muslims and Islam. Goodwin is the co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s New Religious Movements Program Unit and a former co-editor of Religion Compass‘s Religions in the Americas section.
- American Academy of Religion
- National Women’s Studies Association
- Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
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Education
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Introduction to World Religions
PHIL 1111
Offers a historical and thematic overview of the most widely recognized religions in the world today: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Focuses on the formative periods and historical developments of the great religions, ritual practices, and the differing ways in which they answer the fundamental religious questions. Considers ways in which religious practitioners have attempted to understand the nature of the world, human society, and a person’s place within them.
