Topic Name Description
Course Documents File RE 300 Fa 2022 Syllabus
File Research paper information
File Peer Review Sheet for Bibliographies and Proposals
File Peer Review Sheet (Cares)
File Rāmāyaṇa Retelling
File Sattar's Rāmāyaṇa "Introduction"
File Sattar's Rāmāyaṇa "Introduction" pp 1-23 (screen readable version)
File Sattar's Rāmāyaṇa "Introduction pp 24-31 (screen readable)
Writing Resources File Finding a Useful Research Question
URL Yale Poorvu Center for teaching and Learning (writing worksheets, advice, and tutorials)
URL Evaluating Information: the CRAAP test

A page that explains how to evaluate if sources are appropriate for use in academic work.
URL Evaluating Sources

More information on evaluating sources; also includes information on how academic publishing is conducted and why sources are called "peer-reviewed" and why this is important.
URL Library Research Guide: General (EH 102)

Good for stages of a research project.
URL Library Research Guide: Religion

A page that has direct links to some databases of articles that are useful for topics related to religion.
File Paper Self-Evaluation
URL The Writer's Diet
Chicago Style URL Chicago Manual of Style Online
URL OWL Purdue Citation Guide-- Chicago
Hinduism Page Watch: Brief Introduction to Hinduism (click on "Read more")
File Read: Living Religions ch 3 "Hinduism"
URL Watch: "Buddha and Ashoka" Crash Course World History #6

I really love these videos, although as you might imagine they are rather simplistic. But this one does give a fairly accurate, concise overview. However, please note that his pronunciations are sometimes incorrect.
URL Ancient and Early Medieval India
Beginning with the Rāmāyaṇa (intro materials) URL The British Library's "Quick Guide to the Ramayana"

This site gives a very brief overview to the Rāmāyaṇa, and can serve as a reference until the characters and names become more familiar.
File Rāmāyaṇa Names
File Anne Lamott's "Shitty First Drafts"
The Rāmāyaṇa URL Watch: Crash Course Mythology: Ramayana
Page Watch: Bare-bones Rāmāyaṇa (click "Read more")

My very brief overview of the outlines of the Rāmāyaṇa. Forgive my lack of editing skills.
File Characters in the Rāmāyaṇa (a reference)
URL The Land of the Ramayana
URL The Question of the Bridge
File The Ramayana Intro slides
Many Rāmāyaṇas: Questions of Caste and Gender File Many Rāmāyaṇas, ch 1
File Many Rāmāyaṇas ch 2
File Many Rāmāyaṇas, ch 4
File Many Rāmāyaṇas, ch 6
File Many Rāmāyaṇas, ch 9
File The Sacrifice of Purusha
URL The Sacrifice of Purusha (online)
URL "Caste, Shambuka and Marginalized Reinterpretations of The Ramayana" by Emma Leiken" (read instead of "Stigmatized Characters" for Tues, Oct. 11)
File Supplemental: Women in the Laws of Manu
The Rāmāyaṇa and Politics File Aryan and Dravidian (ppts)
URL Tuesday, October 25: "History, Myth, India, and Hinduism"
File Thursday, October 27: "The Rama Temple Incident"
URL Ram temple in Ayodhya: How events unfolded over the years
URL Destruction of Ayodhya Mosque
URL LAND, FAITH, DISPUTE A timeline of key events in the Babri Masjid, Ram temple controversy
File "The Ramayana and Its Muslim Interpreters" (supplementary/optional)
File Babri Mosque and Ramayana
Reflecting on the The Rāmāyaṇa File Tuesday, November 1: "Yes to Sita, No to Ram" article
URL Thursday, November 3: "Sita Was My Classmate" (online article)
File Thursday, Nov 3: "Sita's Cruel Treatment"
File Deconstructing Sita Sings the Blues
URL "A Feminist Reading of Sita Sings the Blues"
Stylish Academic Writing Discussion Questions/Writing Activities File Stylish Academic Writing Exercises
File Stylish Academic Writing part 1
Supplemental Readings File "Patterns in Comparative Mythology" article
File Article about Religious Meaning Making
File Puranas (stories of the Hindu gods)- article about the creation of this genre