Module POC2101 for 2018/9
- 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 2018/9 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Module Aims
This module aims to enable you:
- To interrogate contemporary understandings about what religion is and how it functions by drawing on inter-disciplinary literature
- To question what the relation of religion is to politics
- To link theory to a range of case studies and give you the opportunity to research contemporary empirical cases
- To explore the various interfaces between religion and contemporary political challenges such as conflict, peacebuilding, development, terrorism, the refugee crisis and development
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
|---|---|
| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate competent knowledge about religious identity and practice in various global locations, with reference to state of the art theoretical debate as well as empirical cases 2. Demonstrate competent understanding of debates about the nature and function of religion in global politics |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Assimilate taught materials and utilize them to comprehensively analyse and evaluate religions role in a range of contemporary global political challenges 4. Demonstrate knowledge of major political theories and good understanding of how to apply them to empirical case studies identified in the course 5. Synthesise a range of literatures |
| Personal and Key Skills | 6. Research and write analytically 7. Communicate complex arguments effectively through written submissions intended for a range of audiences 8. Communicate complex empirical and theoretical insight through class debate |
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
