This course explores the creation, maintenance, and performance of the dominant rubric in the field of Religious Studies — the concept “world religions.” It also asks about the creation of the “isms” that sustain it: Since when? By whom? How contested?

 The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Room B-101
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New York, NY, 10027
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