REL 3725 - Religion and Empire (3)

When Offered: Fall. Alternate years
GEN ED: Junior Writing in the Discipline (WID)
This course explores the nature of empire and its conflicted relationship with religion. It will cover different case studies from differing geographic and historic locales. Religion and empire have moved hand in hand shaping the way that both colonizer and colonized understood, practiced, and created religion. In the process of expanding their world (and altering other worlds), colonizers came to think about themselves in terms of new identities; and colonized peoples forged their own identities in the midst of struggle.
Prerequisite: R C 2001 or its equivalent.