Prophecy, Protest, Protection: Indigenous Environmental Movements in Comparative Perspective

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Focuses on historical and contemporary protest movements in North America and Hawai`i, including at Standing Rock and on Mauna Kea. Analyses of these movements and their religious underpinnings, idioms, and actions will be supplemented and relativized by consideration of related movements elsewhere (e.g., Sami territories in Europe, Bribri territories in Costa Rica, and Nagaland in Northeast India). In order to link the material of the course to core issues in the academic study of religion, sustained attention will be devoted to theorizing discourses of tradition, temporality, and sovereignty, as well as to the practice of comparison.