Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap C1

Delkurs 1: Health, Meaning-making and Culture: a lifecycle perspective on understanding illness and health behaviors and models, 7,5 hp

Bhui, K., Bhugra, D. (2007)

Culture and Mental Health London: Hodder Education (selected chapters)

Loewenthal, K. (2006)

Religion, culture and mental health. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (selected chapters)

Koenig, H., McCullough, M., Larson, D. (2001)

Handbook of Religion and Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press (selected chapters)

Josephson, A & Peteet, J. (2004) Handbook of spirituality and worldview in clinical practice. Washington: American Psychiatric Association

DeMarinis, V. (2003)

Pastoral Care, Existential Health and Existential Epidemiology: a Swedish case study. Stockholm, HSFR/Verbum. (selected chapters)

Plus 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.

Delkurs 2: Forntida religioner

Clunies-Ross, Margaret (1998) Hedniska ekon. Sverige: Bokförlaget Daidalos. (384 s.)

Fowden, G., (1994) Empire to Commonwealth. Consequences of monotheism in late antiquity. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. (226 s.)

Gilhus, I. & Thomassen, E. (2011), Antikens religioner - Mellanösterns och Medelhavsområdets religioner. Översättning Margareta Brogren. Norstedts. (268 s.)

Artikel- och textkompendium

Delkurs 3: Alternativandlighet och nya religiösa rörelser, från Rastafari till satanism 7,5 hp

Barker,E. & Warburg, M. (red.) (1998). New Religions and New Religiosity. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. 309 s. (i urval.)

Berger, H. A. (1999). A Community of Witches: Contemporary Neo-Paganism and Witchcraft in the United States. Columbia, S.C. : Univ. of South Carolina Press. 148 sid.

Edmonds, E. B. (2003). Rastafari: From Out-Casts to Culture Bearers, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 194 sid.

Lewis, J. R & Petersen, J. A. (red.). (2004). Controversial New Religions. New York/ London: Oxford University Press. (i urval.)

Sutcliffe, S. J. (2003). Children of the New Age. A History of Spiritual Practices. London & New York: Routledge. 267 s.

Kompendium: Alternativreligion (köpes på institutionen).

Källmaterial från alternativreligiös rörelse att analysera för hemuppgift.

Delkurs 4: Kina och Japan: daoism, konfucianism, buddhism och shintoism 7,5 hp

Bechert, H. & Gombrich, R. F. (1991 eller senare). World of Buddhism. Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Society and Culture. London: Thames & Hudson, s. 193-291.

The Experience of Buddhism. Sources and Interpretations. Edited by J S Strong. Belmont, 2008. Third Edition! S. 256-340.

Religionshistoria. Ritualer, Mytologi, Ikonografi. Nora: Nya Doxa: 1997 (eller senare). S. 430-471, 571-584.

Religions of China in Practice. Edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. 472 pages.

Religions of Japan in practice. George J., Jr. Tanabe (editor). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. 550 sid.

Delkurs 5: Religion in late modern society: welfare and media 7,5 hp

Beyer, P. (2006) Religion in global society. London: Routledge (selected chapters).

Bäckström, A. & Davie G. med Edgardh, N. & Pettersson, P. (2010) (eds.) Welfare and Religion in 21st century Europe, Volume 1: Reconfiguring the connections, Farnham: Ashgate (selected chapters).

Eisenstadt, S. N. (2002) (ed.) Multiple Modernities (selected chapters).

Lynch, G; Mitchell, J. & Strhan, A. (2011) (eds.) Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader. London & New York: Routledge (selected chapters).

Trägårdh, L. (red) (2007) State and Civil society in Northern Europe. The Swedish model reconsidered, New York: Berghahn Books (selected chapters).

Compendium of articles