RELI 393: MUTANTS AND MYSTICS
Spring 2027 · Section 001 · CRN 26470
This is a course about the deep historical and conceptual connections between the histories of science fiction, the paranormal, and social transformation around race, gender, sexuality, and the human. We will see that such events tend to erupt in the “gaps” or “fractures” of society and within both personal and historical traumatic contexts in order to both deconstruct the reigning social formations, epistemologies, and ontologies—usually of an objectivizing, colonizing, and scientistic nature--but also supply the numinous foundations for the imagining of new humanities, or what queer theorist Ramzi Fawaz calls our emerging “mutanity.” Cross-list: RELI 589. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for RELI 393 if student has credit for RELI 589.
- Credits
- 3
- Instructors
- Jeffrey Kripal