This paper features a discussion of how educators can channel anthropological practices towards the enhancement of experiential learning (EL) teaching methods, particularly on the topic of religion across the Asia-Pacific. I argue that our capacity to achieve curricular objectives through EL calls for an attentiveness to the affinity between the…

In the early summer of 2009 David Dietrich was a tenured faculty member at Lambuth University, a small liberal arts college when a friend from the University of Tennessee (UTM) at Martin called about a job opportunity. Because Lambuth had been struggling financially for many years and there was talk of the school closing its doors, Dietrich was…