ASIAN 4462 - [Religion, Colonialism, and Nationalism in South and Southeast Asia]

(crosslisted) RELST 4462
(GB) (CA-AS, GLC-AS, HST-AS) (EC-SAP, EC-SEAP)

Fall. Not offered: 2022-2023. Next offered: 2024-2025. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: one course in ANTHR, ASIAN, HIST, RELST at 3000 level or above, or permission of instructor. Co-meets with ASIAN 6662/RELST 6662.

A. Blackburn.

Taught as a seminar, the course engages recent theoretical literature on the relations between religion, colonialism and nation formation, alert also to the ongoing and contested nature of claims to purify or refine the nation. 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)