Module POC2101 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC2101: Religion and Global Conflict
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic reading:
APPLEBY, S. (2000). The ambivalence of the sacred: religion, violence and reconciliation. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
ASAD, T. (1993). Genealogies of religion: Discipline and reasons of power in Christianity and Islam. Maryland: John Hopkins University Press.
CASANOVA, J. (1994). Public religions in the modern world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
ELLIS, S and TER HAAR, G. (2007). Religion and politics: taking African epistemologies seriously. Journal of Modern African Studies. 45 (3). p. 385-401.
HABERMAS, J. (2006). Religion in the Public Sphere. European Journal of Philosophy. 14 (1). p. 1-25.
JOHNSON, D (2016). Taking liberties and making liberty: religious bounding and political violence in Sri Lanka. Religion. 46 (3). p. 309-330.
KUBALKOVA, V. (2000). Towards an international political theology. Millennium - Journal of International Studies. 29. p. 675- 704.
LEVINE, D. and MAINWARING, S. (1986). Religion and popular protest in Latin America. Notre Dame: Helen Kellog Institute for International Studies. Working paper 83.
MANDAIR, A. (2009). Religion and the specter of the west: Sikhism, India, postcoloniality, and the politics of translation. New York: Colombia University Press.
Mavelli Wilson (eds), (2016), The Refugee Crisis and Religion; Secularism, Security and Hospitality in Question, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers
MOSSE, D. (2012). The saint in the banyan tree: Christianity and caste society in India. Oakland: University of California Press.
SPENCER, J., GOODHAND, J., HASBULLAH, S., KLEM, B., KORF, B. and SILVA, K.T. (2015). Checkpoint, temple, church and mosque: A collaborative ethnography of war and peace. London: Pluto Press.
TWEED, R. Making homes and crossing boundaries
