Teaching Asian Religions Through Film: Response and Reflections

This article presents reflections on Chien’s, Richey’s, and Mixon’s articles on the benefits of using film as a component of courses about Asian religions. I first explore how incorporating film can help meet the goals that instructors set as part of their course planning, and then shift to analysis of the various pedagogical strategies Chien, Richey, and Mixon employ, highlighting how the techniques that they use for East Asian religions and Islam can be valuable in teaching about other Asian religions as well.

This paper was part of a panel on “Teaching Asian Religions Through Film” presented at the Association for Asian Studies conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, March 24–27, 2022. The panel offered concrete examples on how to adopt cinema and TV to discuss Asian religions, culture, and modernity in the classroom and contributed to the developing analysis concerning the use of visual media in Asian studies pedagogy.

Title	Teaching Asian Religions Through Film: Response and Reflections
Creator	Rinehart, Robin
Publisher	Journal of Religion and Film
Academic Department	Religious Studies
Division	Humanities
Organization	Lafayette College
Date Issued	2022
Date Available	2022-10-31
Type	Article
Language	English
Keyword	Asian religions and film
Bibliographic Citation	Rinehart, R. (2022) "Teaching Asian Religions Through Film: Response and Reflections." Journal of Religion and Film 26 (2): Article 5.
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Rights Holders	Rinehart, Robin