Department of Religion
Associate Professor of Religion and Anthropology

Frank Korom specializes in South Asian expressive traditions and contemporary religion; diaspora studies, globalization and transnationalism; East Indians in the Caribbean and the global community of Tibetan refugees. His most recent publications are South Asian Folklore: A Handbook (2006), and Village of Painters: Narrative Scrolls from West Bengal (2006).

For more information see:      http://bu.edu/religion/faculty/bios/korom.html

Courses:

Undergraduate:
Religions of the World: Eastern (CAS RN 103)
New Age Spirituality (CAS RN 108)
Hinduism (CAS RN 213)
Culture, Society, and Religion in South Asia (CAS RN 375/CAS AN 375)
Anthropology of Religion (CAS RN 387)
Oral Tradition as Verbal Art (CAS RN 388)

Graduate:
Culture, Society, and Religion in South Asia (GRS AN 775/GRS RN 675)
Anthropology of Religion (GRS RN 687)
Oral Tradition as Verbal Art (GRS RN 688)
Approaches to Myth (GRS RN 742)
Symbol, Myth, and Rite (GRS RN 768)