Michael Altman

Tuscaloosa, Alabama Area United States

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Education

Dr. Altman's areas of interest are colonialism, theory and method in the study of religion, media studies, and Asian religions in American culture. Trained in the field of American religious cultures, he is interested in the ways religion is constructed through difference, conflict, and contact. Dr. Altman is currently at work on a book manuscript tentatively titled From Heathens to Hindus: Religious Difference in Protestant America. The book analyzes cultural constructions of Hinduism in 19th-century America. Beginning with American interest in India in the early republic and ending with the World's Parliament of Religion in 1893, he argues that Hinduism had an impact on American cultu...