ASIAN 6611

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ASIAN 6611
Performing Islam in Southeast Asia

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What role does Islam take in the politics, history, arts and rituals of Southeast Asia? Structured as a seminar, this course takes you on a journey through Southeast Asia, home to almost a quarter of the global Muslim population, to explore how centuries of cultural mixing and layering have shaped the regions' religious outlook. How are local traditions and universal Islamic precepts reconciled? How is this manifested in the performative arts and rituals? How does Islam play out in governance and the law? How is Islam deployed in the transnational sphere? Previous knowledge of Islam is an advantage, but not a requisite to succeed in this course. Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of Islam as a religious system as well as a historical phenomenon throughout the course.

When Offered Spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: one course in the humanities.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3311, NES 3511, RELST 3311

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8379 ASIAN 6611   SEM 101

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  • Prerequisite: One course in the humanities.