Asian American Religious History

Asian American Religious History is a new course in the Graduate Department of Religion (GDR). The course is primarily for doctoral students in the GDR. While the course material will be especially pertinent for students in the American Religious Cultures course of study, the course will be open to doctoral students in other GDR courses of study, other departments such as History, and upper division masters students (by instructor permission). For students training to become American historians or scholars in American religions, the methods we use in this course will be especially relevant as we will draw from historical method and religious studies. For students who may have different methodological interests, such as theology or anthropology, the course content in Asian American history, Asian American studies and Asian American religions, will be helpful for them as they gain content coverage in an area that is not usually in other doctoral or masters level courses at Emory. For upper division masters level students, the course will help them explore whether doctoral studies is of interest to them, even as they study material that is not widely covered in the Candler School of Theology curriculum.

This syllabus was created for the Young Scholars in American Religion program.

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