Current Semester
Fall 2013 Courses:
RLST 325: Religion and Literature (online)
Office Hours: By appointment
Office: Wilson 2-164
Email: bscott@montana.edu
Phone: (406) 994-5126
Curriculum Vitae: Click Here
Research Interests
Religion in Modern India
Transnational religious reform movements
Religion, media, and public culture
Theory and method in religious studies
Education
PhD, Religion, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2009
BA, Religion and English Literature, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, 2001
Awards, Honors, and Affiliations
SIAS Summer Institute, National Humanities Center and Wissenshaftskolleg zu Berlin (2013-2014)
Scholarship and Creativity Grant, Montana State University (2013-2014)
Scholarship and Creativity Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research, Montana State University (2011-2012)
Sponsored Participant, Cornell University School of Criticism and Theory (2009)
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Academic Year Fellowship, Hindi (2008-2009)
American Institute of Indian Studies, Junior Fellowship (2007-2008)
American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Research Fellowship (2007-2008)
Duke University Summer Research Grant (2007)
FLAS Academic Year and Summer Fellowships in Hindi-Urdu (2004-2006)
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Humanistic Studies (2003-2004)
Recent Publications
Spiritual Despots: The Politics of "Priestcraft" in Colonial India (book manuscript)
“Comic Book Karma: Visual Mythologies of the Hindu Modern,” in “Inscriptions,” eds. Jeremy Stolow and Lisa Gitelman, special issue of Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2010): 177-197.
“Miracle Publics: Theosophy, Christianity, and the Coulomb Affair,” History of Religions 49.2 (2009): 172- 196.
Courses Taught
RLST 100D: Introduction to the Study of Religion
RLST 201: Islam
RLST 202D: Hindu Traditions
RLST 325: Religion and Literature
RLST 326: Topics in Religion: Guru Culture (2011), Gandhi's Modernity (2013)
RLST 370: Philosophy of Religion
RLST 402: Natural/Unnatural/Supernatural
