FYS 160 Imagining Home: Global Migrations and Religious Identities
What and where is "home" for people on the move? Is "home" a place, a tradition, a family, a nation, a people, a prayer, or a dream? Who feels "at home” and why? How does the stranger define who belongs? What are the effects of diaspora on religion, culture, politics, fundamentalism, gender, sexuality, and community? This class will consider the experiences of diasporic communities—Jews, Africans, and Asians—in history and modernity. Through works of literature, theology, film, and cultural studies and numerous site visits we will explore how communities have preserved, negotiated, and transformed their identities, traditions, and nationalities in global migrations and contexts.