AMST 234
Religion and Migration Fall 2016
Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed REL 234 / LATS 234
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This course is concerned with the ways in which migrants groups have altered the religious landscape of the U.S. and how they innovatively reproduce practices from their places of origin. Crossing into the U.S. from the eastern seaboard, the Pacific Rim, and the southern border with Mexico, migrants bring their new ways of creating sacred space and negotiated religious life. We will seek to understand the multifaceted relationships between religion and migration. How have migrants negotiated the role of religion in their private and public lives? What have been the social consequences pertaining to gender, praxis, respectability? The course take into account earlier iterations of migration from the nineteenth century but case studies in this course will draw heavily from the third wave of American immigration, characterized by twentieth-century “internal migrations” of African Americans, Latinas/os, Native Americans, and rural dwellers into the urban environment. We will conclude by examining the ways in which forces of modern globalization have changed the nature of religious diversity in the U.S. In this EDI course, we will extensively compare migrant cultures as we interrogate power and privilege pertaining to race and religion. The cultural production of these migrant groups that we will examine will offer students an empathetic understanding of diverse cultures and their form of belonging.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 25
Expected: 25
Class#: 2026
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: student participation, weekly reflection papers (up to half page), midterm primary source write up (up to 5 pages), and a final project on "Representing Religious Migrations"
Extra Info: (includes 8-10 page paper based on primary and secondary sources and interactive component: video, map, photographs, material cultures exhibit plan, etc). Course may require a field trip
Extra Info 2: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
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 234 Division II REL 234 Division II LATS 234 Division II
Attributes: LATS Comparative Race + Ethnic Studies Electives

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