ASIAN 6662 - Religion, Colonialism, and Nationalism in South and Southeast Asia

Fall. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: one course in ANTHR, ASIAN, HIST, RELST at 3000 level or above or permission of instructor. Co-meets with ASIAN 4462/RELST 4462.

A. Blackburn.

Taught as a seminar, the course engages recent theoretical literature on the relations between religion, colonialism and nation formation. This theoretical literature is read in conjunction with historical and ethnographic materials from South and Southeast Asian contexts, which allow us to explore the intellectual promise and limitations of the theoretical work in question. (RL)