The Role of Religion in the Lives of Hindu Students

Suh, Paul

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The Role of Religion in the Lives of Hindu Students

Author(s)

Suh, Paul

Issue Date

2008-02-25

Keyword(s)

• Hinduism
• Religion
• AAS346 F07

Abstract

The main focus of doing a research project like this is to find out the impact of religion in the lives of students at the University of Illinois. In order to specify the research project, the research was done on Hindu students and the research sought to answer the question as to why some students convert to different religions. Through an interview process with several students, it seemed as though the students who were held more responsible for their faith ended up having a stronger faith, whereas the students who were given more freedom were likely to convert.

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AAS 346, Asian American Youth, Prof. Soo Ah Kwon: This course explores the ways that second-generation Asian and Pacific Islander (API) youth are actively shaping the U.S. landscape in terms of identity formation, youth cultural production, education, organizing, and community formations. These experiences are examined within larger historical, economic, racial, social and political forces in the United States. Rather than approach the study of youth through a developmental psychological model of adolescence, this course will examine youth as a culturally specific social formation. We will engage with texts that draw from different academic disciplines to provide us with theoretical, historical, and ethnographic perspectives of young people. We will also compare and situate the unique (and not so unique) experiences of API youth with young people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds. The course syllabus is available at: www.eui.uiuc.edu/docs/syllabi/AAS346F07.doc

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