Main group 1

• Fanon, Frantz, The wretched of the earth, New York, Grove Press, cop. 2004Compulsory*
• Gilroy, Paul, The black Atlantic: modernity and double consciousness, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard Univ. Press, cop. 1995Compulsory*
• King, Richard, Orientalism and religion: post-colonial theory, India and the mystic East, New York, Routledge, 1999Compulsory*
• Loomba, Ania, Kolonialism/Postkolonialism: en introduktion till ett forskningsfält, Stockholm, Tankekraft, 2006Compulsory*
• Masuzawa, Tomoko, The invention of world religions, or, how European universalism was preserved in the language of pluralism, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005Compulsory*
• Sayyid, Bobby S., A fundamental fear: Eurocentrism and the emergence of Islamism, 2. ed., London, Zed Books, 2003Compulsory*
• Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, Europeisk universalism: maktens retorik, Stockholm, Tankekraft, 2006Compulsory*
• Kompendium (med texter av Spivak, Fanon, Abu-Lugodh och Said)Compulsory*

• Abernethy, David B., The dynamics of global dominance: European overseas empires, 1415-1980, London, 2002
• Wolf, Eric R., Europe and the people without history, Berkeley, University of California Press, cop. 1997, 2010

Main group 2

• Davie, Grace, The sociology of religion, London, SAGE, 2007Compulsory*
• The Hedgehog Review. Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture., After Secularization. Volume Eight, Numbers 1-2, 2006, http://www.iasc-culture.org/THR/hedgehog_review_2006-Spring-Summer.phpCompulsory*
• Paloutzian; Park, Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, New York: Guilford. Second edition, 2013Compulsory*
• Reich, H; Hill, P, Quo vadis: new developments in psychology of religion, Part of: Archiv für Religionspsychologie: Archive for the psychology of religion. Vol. 28, Leiden, Brill, 2006, vol. 30Compulsory*
• Bäckström, Anders et al., Welfare and religion in 21st century Europe.: Vol. 2 Gendered, religious and social change, Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate, 2011Compulsory*
• DeMarinis, Valerie, Pastoral care, existential health, and existential epidemiology: a Swedish postmodern case study, Stockholm, Verbum, 2003Compulsory*
• Esmer, Yilmaz R.; Pettersson, Thorleif, Measuring and mapping cultures: 25 years of comparative value surveys, Leiden, Brill, 2007Compulsory*
• The course literature also includes a compendium of material.Compulsory*

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*

Main group 4

• Beard, Mary; North, John; Price, Simon R. F., Religions of Rome.: Vol. 1 A history, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998Compulsory*
• Beard, Mary; North, John; Price, Simon R. F., Religions of Rome.: Vol. 2 A sourcebook, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998Compulsory*
• Feeney, Denis, Literature and religion at Rome: cultures, contexts, and beliefs., New York, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998Compulsory*
• Price, S. R. F., Rituals and power: the Roman imperial cult in Asia Minor, Cambridge, Cambridge U.P., 1984Compulsory*
• undefined, Artiklar, ca 100 s. tillgängliga elektroniskt via Uppsala universitetsbibliotek:
• Muniz Grijalvo, E., Elites and religious change in Roman Athens, Part of: Numen: international review for the history of religions, vol. 52, no. 2, 2005, p. 255–282Compulsory*
• Rives, J. B., The Decree of Decius and the Religion of Empire, Part of: Journal of Roman studies, vol. 89, 1999, p. 135–154Compulsory*
• Rüpke, J., Triumphator and ancestor rituals. Between symbolic anthropology and magic, Part of: Numen: international review for the history of religions, vol. 53, no. 3, 2006, p. 251–289Compulsory*
• Versnel, H. S., Red (herring?). Comments on a new theory concerning the origin of the Triumph, Part of: Numen: international review for the history of religions, vol. 53, no. 3, 2006, p. 290–326Compulsory*

Main group 5

• Berger, David, Mission to the Jews and Jewish-Christian contacts in the polemical literature of the High Middle Ages, Part of: The American historical review., vol. 91, no. 3, 1986, p. 576–591Compulsory*
• Berman, Constance Hoffman, Medieval religion: new approaches, New York, NY, Routledge, 2005Compulsory*
• Freidenreich, David M, Sharing meals with non-Christians in canon law commentaries, circa 1160-1260: A case study in legal development, Part of: Medieval encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim culture in confluence and dialogue, no. 14, 2008, p. 41–77Compulsory*
• Griffith, Sidney Harrison, The church in the shadow of the mosque: Christians and Muslims in the world of Islam, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2010Compulsory*
• Al-Andalus, Sepharad and medieval Iberia: Cultural contacts and diffusion, Part of: Medieval encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim culture in confluence and dialogue, vol. 15, no. 2-4, 2009Compulsory*
• Kruger, Steven F, The spectral Jew: conversion and embodiment in medieval Europe, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, c2006Compulsory*
• Nirenberg, David, Communities of violence: persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages, Princeton, N.J., Princeton Univ. Press, cop. 1996Compulsory*
• Nirnberg, David, Conversion, sex, and segregation. Jews and Christians in medieval Spain, Part of: The American historical review., vol. 107, no. 4, 2002, p. 1065–1093Compulsory*
• Roos, Lena, Att studera medeltiden, 1. uppl., Lund, Studentlitteratur, 2008Compulsory*
• Roos, Lena, Kristendomen med bröstmjölken? Nära relationer mellan judar och kristna under medeltiden, Part of: Religion och bibel: Nathan Söderblom-sällskapets årsbok, vol. LXV, 2008, p. 75–89Compulsory*
• Källtexter

Research Design and Methods in the Social Science of Religion

• 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 7

• 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 8

• 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*

Main group 9

• 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*
• Ricœur, 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://www.ub.uu.seCompulsory*

Health, meaning-making and culture: A Lifecycle Perspective on Understanding Illness, Health Behavi

Advanced-level students will read the course literature as well as readings for their research project areas.

• Loewenthal, Kate Miriam, Religion, culture and mental health, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007Compulsory*
• Josephson, Allan M.; Peteet, John R., Handbook of spirituality and worldview in clinical practice, 1st ed., Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Pub., Inc., 2004Compulsory*
• Simich, Laura.; Andermann, Lisa., Refuge and Resilience: Promoting Resilience and Mental Health among Resettled Refugees and Forced Migrants, Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2014Compulsory* (selected chapters)
• Compendium, Teologiska institutionenCompulsory* (A compendium of scientific articles and chapters including but not limited to the following topics: cultural analysis, mixed method research design, health psychology, transcultural psychology/psychiatry, positive psychology, meaning-making models, gender research in healthcare, migration research, research in religious coping and stress reduction.)

Religion in Late Modern Society

• Aune, Kristin; Sharma, Sonya; Vincett, Giselle, Women and religion in the west: challenging secularization, Aldershot, England, Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2008Compulsory*
• Bäckström, Anders et al., Welfare and religion in 21st century Europe.: Vol. 2 Gendered, religious and social change, Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate, 2011Compulsory*
• De Hart, Joep; Dekker, Paul; Halman, Loek, Religion and civil society in Europe, New York, Springer, 2013Compulsory*
• Hjarvard, Stig; Lövheim, Mia, Mediatization and religion: Nordic perspectives, Göteborg, Nordicom, 2012Compulsory*
• Lind, Anna-Sara; Lövheim, Mia; Zackariasson, Ulf, Reconsidering religion, law, and democracy: new challenges for society and research, Lund, Nordic Academic Press, 2016Compulsory*
• Compendium of articles, Teologiska institutionenCompulsory*

* Compulsory