Statement:
I agree with Michael Omi
and Howard Winant that concepts of race “structure state and
civil society” and “shape both identities and institutions
in significant ways” (Racial Formation in the United States,
vii). Approaching religion in North America through the lens of race
and ethnicity allows us to uncover hidden and subjugated histories
and actors in American religion. This method also lets us see how
the study of religion has itself been structured and shaped by assumptions
about race/ethnicity and the absence of race as a variable for analysis.
To study religion in this way requires working across disciplines
(transdisciplinarity) and even against established disciplinary paradigms
(counterdisciplinarity).
Select
and Recent Publications:
- “King Tiger”:
The Religious Vision of Reies López Tijerina. University
of New Mexico Press, 2005.
- “‘In
the Outer Boundaries...’: Pentecostalism, Politics and
Reies López Tijerina’s Civic Activism” Latino
Religions and Social Action in the United States, Gaston Espinosa,
Virgilio Elizondo and Jesse Miranda, eds., 65-75. Oxford University
Press, 2005.
- “DisOrienting
Subjects: Reclaiming Pacific Islander / Asian American Religious
Traditions” Revealing the Sacred in Asian America,
Jane Iwamura and Paul Spickard, eds., 9-28. Routledge, 2003.
- “The Gospel According
to the Model Minority? Hazarding an Interpretation of Asian American
Evangelical College Students” Spiritual Homes: Religion
and Asian Americans, David Yoo and Russell Leong, eds., 169-187.
University of Hawaii Press, 1999.
- “‘It Really
Resembled an Earthly Paradise’: Reading Motolinia’s
Account of the Caída de nuestros primeros padres"
Biblical Interpretation 2:1 (Winter 1994), 111-137.
Current/Planned
Research/Projects:
- Article on the contribution
of Mongol Americans to the transmission of Buddhism to the U.S.
- Book manuscript on Mexican
American/Chican@ religion organized around the concept of nepantla
(“in the middle). Chapters include Southern Baptist missions
to Mexican Americans; rasquachismo in Chican@ religious
thought and theology; the genealogy of the concept nepantla; mestizo
writers as religious innovators (Cherríe Moraga, Jose Argüelles,
Marie Canavarro de Souza, Jose Silva)
- Book manuscript on Asian
American religion
Courses
Taught:
Undergraduate:
- RS 9: Religion &
Ethnicity
- RS 16: Chicano/Latino
Religious Traditions
- RS 104: Problems in
the Study of Religion - Religion & Science Fiction
- RS 116E: Evangelical
Christianity in the U.S.
- RS 123: Asian American
Religious Traditions
- RS 147: The American
Religious Experience
- RS 151C: Religion in
the American West
- RS 191A: Latino Religious
Thought
Graduate:
- RS 266R: Seminar in
Race and Religion
Curriculum
Vitae:
http://www.religion.ucsb.edu/faculty/Rudy_Busto_CV.pdf
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