Courses Taught at the College Level

On Traditions and Disciplines

• Introduction to Asian Religions

• Introduction to Religions of South Asia

• Introduction to Hinduism and Hindu Traditions

• Modern Hinduism

• Introduction to Judaism and Jewish Traditions

• Introduction to Women’s

• Gender and Sexuality Studies

• Living Jewish Texts: Writing, Wrestling and Ritualizing

• Understanding Religion

• Making the Hebrew Bible Meaningful

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Topical Courses

• Sexuality and Religious Controversies

• The Politics of Religious Identities

• Imagining Home: Religious and Cultural Identities in Diaspora

• Holy Violence: From Saints to Suicide Bombers

• Asian Religion and Culture in America

• Asian Mystiques Demystified

• Sex, Judaism & Gender

• Ritual, Tradition, Transformation

• Holy Lands: Sacred Realities, Political Stories in Israel and Palestine (in situ with Dr. Matthew Pierce)

• Religion and the First Amendment

• Performing Tradition: Art, Religion, and Globalization

• Othering and Belonging: Religious and Cultural Identities in Nairobi (in situ with Dr. Sheilia Otieno, forthcoming)

• Encountering Islam: Dialogue and Difference

• Seeing is Believing: Global Religions in MN

• Fieldwork in Religion

• Religion & Violence

• Theory and Method in the Study of Religion

• From Rituals to Riots: Why Religion Matters

• Race and Religion

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Directed and Mentored Study and Research

• Readings in Caste

• Caste through a Dalit Feminist Lens

• Fieldwork in Religion

• The Commodification of Suffering in Exchange for Educational Access

• Hinduism in Minnesota

• Islam, Law and American Educational Policy

• Muslim Women and Feminism

• Free Speech/Religious Freedom

• Somali Muslim Women in Rural MN

• Sacred Violence

• Judaism or Judaisms?

• Religion and Public Scholarship

• Public Hindus & Hinduisms

• Education, Religion & Cultural Diversity

• Religious Monuments in Public Space

• Religion and Mental Health

• Morality, Modernity & Sex

• Jewish Thought and Ritual in Modernity

• Environmentalism & Local Religion

• Religion, Gender & Nature

• Readings in Levinas

• Hindu Ritual Embodied

• Reading Primary Sources— Jewish Texts

• Reading Primary Sources—Hindu Texts

• Gender and Violence in Asia