SOC 249
Asian Religious Diasporas: The New Chosen People?
Spring 2014
Division II
Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed
AMST 249 / REL 249
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Class Details
“Diaspora” is derived from a Greek word that means “to scatter” and historically refers to the Jewish community. Beginning in the 1990s, scholars, politicians, and journalists have expanded the meaning to include de-territorialized communities embedded within and extending outward from Asia. In this course, we will examine the how and why this phenomenon has developed. We will pay particular attention to religion as a proxy for identifying and these “diasporas” and compare it with other types, such as economic, ethnic, and race. How is religion important in the classification of “Asian” forms of diaspora? What are the forms of power at play? We will anchor our perspectives within the contexts of nationalism, inter-ethnic and racial relations, migration, transnationalism, and economic globalization.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 3580
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 3580
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
participation, 1 project, 1 final paper
Prerequisites:
none
Enrollment Preferences:
none
Distributions:
Division II
Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
AMST 249 Division II SOC 249 Division II REL 249 Division II
AMST 249 Division II SOC 249 Division II REL 249 Division II
Attributes:
ASAM Related Courses
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SOC 249 - 01 (S) SEM Asian Religious Diasporas
SOC 249 - 01 (S) SEM Asian Religious DiasporasDivision II Exploring Diversity InitiativeThien-Huong T. NinhTF 1:10 pm - 2:25 pm
Hollander 1403580
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