the cft highlights the work of our junior faculty teaching fellows<\/a>. in this post, adeana mcnicholl<\/strong>, <\/strong>religious studies, talks about some of the lessons she has gained from the fellowship.<\/p>\n
<\/a>i am an assistant professor of buddhist traditions in the religious studies department. my research focuses on buddhism in ancient south asia and buddhism in the united states. in my scholarship and teaching, i aim to identify and decenter colonial frameworks of knowledge about religion. in the religious studies classroom, i encourage my students to hone their skills in critical analysis of religion in the public sphere. my students learn that arguments about religion are never neutral and that defining religion does real work in the world. we consider who has the power to define religion, what is at stake when those definitions are made, and how narratives about religion are bound up in histories of colonialism and imperialism, policing, surveillance, and exclusion.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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