History of Religions and Social Sciences of Religion D1
15 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5RT154
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- Winther Jørgensen, Marianne; Phillips, Louise, Diskursanalys som teori och metod, Lund, Studentlitteratur, 2000Compulsory
- Jaworski, Adam; Coupland, Nikolas, The discourse reader, 2., [updated] ed., London, Routledge, 2006
- West, D., An Introduction to Continental Philosophy, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004
- Kurskompendium, Teologiska institutionenCompulsory
Main group 2
- Bryman, Alan, Social research methods, 4. ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012Compulsory
- Creswell, John W., Research design: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches, 3. ed., Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage, cop. 2009Compulsory
- Compendium (in digital form)Compulsory
Main group 3
- Lincoln, Bruce, Theorizing myth: narrative, ideology, and scholarship, Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Press, 1999Compulsory
- Moreland, John, Archaeology and text, London, Duckworth, 2001Compulsory
- Hitchcock, Louise, Theory for classics: a student's guide, New York, Routledge, 2008Compulsory
- Ricur, Paul, Minne, historia, glömska, Göteborg, Daidalos, 2005Compulsory
- Whitehouse, Harvey; Martin, Luther H., Theorizing religions past: archaeology, history, and cognition, Walnut Creek, Calif., AltaMira Press, 2004Compulsory
- Elektroniska artiklar tillgängliga via www.ub.uu.se, http:/
/ Compulsorywww.ub.uu.se
Main group 4
- Burkert, Walter, Greek religion: archaic and classical, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1987Compulsory
- Burkert, Walter, Homo necans: the anthropology of ancient Greek sacrificial ritual and myth, 2. pr., Berkeley, University of California Press, 1983Compulsory
- Malkin, Irad, A small Greek world: networks in the Ancient Mediterranean, New York, Oxford University Press, c2011Compulsory
- Penglase, Charles, Greek myths and Mesopotamia: parallels and influence in the Homeric hymns and Hesiod, London, Routledge, 1994Compulsory
- elektroniska artiklar, Uppsala universitetsbibliotekCompulsory
Religion and Violence
Course literature
- Agamben, Giorgio, Homo sacer: sovereign power and bare life, Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1998Compulsory
- Appadurai, Arjun, Fear of small numbers: an essay on the geography of anger, Durham, Duke University Press, 2006Compulsory
- Cavanaugh, William T., The myth of religious violence: secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009Compulsory
- Devji, Faisal, The terrorist in search of humanity: militant Islam and global politics, New York, Columbia University Press, c2008Compulsory
- Dreher, Tanja; Ho, Christina, Beyond the hijab debates: new conversations on gender, race and religion, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2009Compulsory
- Hinnells, John R.; King, Richard, Religion and violence in South Asia: theory and practice, London, Routledge, 2007Compulsory
- Juergensmeyer, Mark; Kitts, Margo, Princeton readings in religion and violence, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, c2011Compulsory
Articles
- Benjamin, Walter, Critique of violence, Part of: Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings, New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, cop. 1978, p. 291–316Compulsory
- Gardell, Mattias, Crusader Dreams: Oslo 22/7, Islamophobia, and the Quest for a Monocultural Europe, Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence, 2014Compulsory
- Gardell, Mattias, Torture, Terror and Truth: On the meaning of Guantánamo and the future of Global order, Temenos, 44. no. 1., 2008Compulsory
- Gardell, Mattias, So Costly a Sacrifice Upon the Altar of Freedom: Human Bombs, Suicide Attacks, and Patriotic Heroes, Journal of Religion and Violence, 2014Compulsory
- Wieland, Christina, Masculinities and the fascist state of mind, London: Routledge, 2015Compulsory
- Žižek, Slavoj, Violence: six sideways reflections, 1st Picador ed., New York, Picador, 2008Compulsory
* Compulsory
Syllabus
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2019
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2018
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2016
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2016, version 2
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2016, version 1
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2015
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2015
- Syllabus valid from Spring 2014
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2013, version 2
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2013, version 1
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2012
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2011
- Syllabus valid from Autumn 2010