Megan Goodwin
Visiting Lecturer of Religion, Program Director of Sacred Writes
Megan Goodwin is a scholar of gender, race, sexuality, politics, and American religions. She is the author of Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions (Rutgers 2020). With Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, she cohosts Keeping It 101: A Killjoy’s Introduction to Religion Podcast. Goodwin is the co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Teaching Against Islamophobia program unit. Her next book is tentatively titled _Cults Incorporated_.
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Education
Ph.D. Religious Studies -- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2014)
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Address
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Associations
Goddesses, Witches, Saints, and Sinners: Women in Western Religions
PHIL 1104
Introduces and examines the theory that Western religions were originally goddess centered through analyses of image, text, and ritual in the ancient world. Explores scholarship about the patriarchalization of these primal religions. Includes a consideration of scripture such as the Hebrew Bible, Greek Testament, and Qu’ran, as well as noncanonical texts. PHIL 1104 and WMNS 1104 are cross-listed.
