REL 295-03 - Special Topic: Empire and Religion in Asia and the Pacific

4 credits (Fall)

This course aims to offer methodological tools that encourage the incorporation of everyday, non-elite voices into the study of imperialism in Asia and the Pacific through focusing on religious experience in several case studies from China, India, New Zealand Aotearoa, Japan, Korea, and Tibet. Studying such voices disrupts depictions of imperialism as a straightforward, mono-directional process through suggestions of the implications of hybridity for colonized societies, and represents the potential for religion to act as a subversive as well as a complicit force.

Prerequisite: REL 101, REL 102, REL 103, REL 104, REL 105, or second-year standing.
Instructor: Holmes-Tagchungdarpa