Postkoloniala perspektiv på religion

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

Referenslitteratur

• 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

Theory and research in the social sciences of religion

• Davie, Grace, The sociology of religion, London, SAGE, 2007Obligatorisk*
• 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.phpObligatorisk* (selections appr 150 pages)
• Paloutzian; Park, Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, New York: Guilford. Second edition, 2013Obligatorisk*
• Reich, H; Hill, P, Quo vadis: new developments in psychology of religion, Ingår i: Archiv für Religionspsychologie: Archive for the psychology of religion. Vol. 28, Leiden, Brill, 2006, vol. 30Obligatorisk*
• Bäckström, Anders m.fl., Welfare and religion in 21st century Europe.: Vol. 2 Gendered, religious and social change, Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate, 2011Obligatorisk*
• DeMarinis, Valerie, Pastoral care, existential health, and existential epidemiology: a Swedish postmodern case study, Stockholm, Verbum, 2003Obligatorisk*
• Esmer, Yilmaz R.; Pettersson, Thorleif, Measuring and mapping cultures: 25 years of comparative value surveys, Leiden, Brill, 2007Obligatorisk*
• The course literature also includes a compendium of material.Obligatorisk*

Religion and Violence

Course literature

• Agamben, Giorgio, Homo sacer: sovereign power and bare life, Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1998Obligatorisk*
• Appadurai, Arjun, Fear of small numbers: an essay on the geography of anger, Durham, Duke University Press, 2006Obligatorisk*
• Cavanaugh, William T., The myth of religious violence: secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009Obligatorisk*
• Devji, Faisal, The terrorist in search of humanity: militant Islam and global politics, New York, Columbia University Press, c2008Obligatorisk*
• Dreher, Tanja; Ho, Christina, Beyond the hijab debates: new conversations on gender, race and religion, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2009Obligatorisk* ([selected parts])
• Hinnells, John R.; King, Richard, Religion and violence in South Asia: theory and practice, London, Routledge, 2007Obligatorisk*
• Juergensmeyer, Mark; Kitts, Margo, Princeton readings in religion and violence, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, c2011Obligatorisk* ([selected parts])

Articles

• Benjamin, Walter, Critique of violence, Ingår i: Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings, New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, cop. 1978, s. 291–316Obligatorisk*
• Gardell, Mattias, Crusader Dreams: Oslo 22/7, Islamophobia, and the Quest for a Monocultural Europe, Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence, 2014Obligatorisk* (Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2014, pp 129–155)
• Gardell, Mattias, Torture, Terror and Truth: On the meaning of Guantánamo and the future of Global order, Temenos, 44. no. 1., 2008Obligatorisk*
• Gardell, Mattias, So Costly a Sacrifice Upon the Altar of Freedom: Human Bombs, Suicide Attacks, and Patriotic Heroes, Journal of Religion and Violence, 2014Obligatorisk* (Vol 2, no. 1, pp 168–202)
• Wieland, Christina, Masculinities and the fascist state of mind, London: Routledge, 2015Obligatorisk* (pp 127–159)
• Žižek, Slavoj, Violence: six sideways reflections, 1st Picador ed., New York, Picador, 2008Obligatorisk* (Article: Violence subjective and objective. pp 9–15)

Stats- och imperiereligion: Romarriket

• Beard, Mary; North, John; Price, Simon R. F., Religions of Rome.: Vol. 1 A history, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998Obligatorisk*
• Beard, Mary; North, John; Price, Simon R. F., Religions of Rome.: Vol. 2 A sourcebook, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998Obligatorisk* (I urval)
• Feeney, Denis, Literature and religion at Rome: cultures, contexts, and beliefs., New York, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998Obligatorisk*
• Price, S. R. F., Rituals and power: the Roman imperial cult in Asia Minor, Cambridge, Cambridge U.P., 1984Obligatorisk* (I urval)
• undefined, Artiklar, ca 100 s. tillgängliga elektroniskt via Uppsala universitetsbibliotek:
• Muniz Grijalvo, E., Elites and religious change in Roman Athens, Ingår i: Numen: international review for the history of religions, vol. 52, nr. 2, 2005, s. 255–282Obligatorisk*
• Rives, J. B., The Decree of Decius and the Religion of Empire, Ingår i: Journal of Roman studies, vol. 89, 1999, s. 135–154Obligatorisk*
• Rüpke, J., Triumphator and ancestor rituals. Between symbolic anthropology and magic, Ingår i: Numen: international review for the history of religions, vol. 53, nr. 3, 2006, s. 251–289Obligatorisk*
• Versnel, H. S., Red (herring?). Comments on a new theory concerning the origin of the Triumph, Ingår i: Numen: international review for the history of religions, vol. 53, nr. 3, 2006, s. 290–326Obligatorisk*

Judendom, kristendom och islam: medeltida samexistens

• Berger, David, Mission to the Jews and Jewish-Christian contacts in the polemical literature of the High Middle Ages, Ingår i: The American historical review., vol. 91, nr. 3, 1986, s. 576–591Obligatorisk*
• Berman, Constance Hoffman, Medieval religion: new approaches, New York, NY, Routledge, 2005Obligatorisk* (i urval)
• Freidenreich, David M, Sharing meals with non-Christians in canon law commentaries, circa 1160-1260: A case study in legal development, Ingår i: Medieval encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim culture in confluence and dialogue, nr. 14, 2008, s. 41–77Obligatorisk*
• Griffith, Sidney Harrison, The church in the shadow of the mosque: Christians and Muslims in the world of Islam, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2010Obligatorisk*
• Al-Andalus, Sepharad and medieval Iberia: Cultural contacts and diffusion, Ingår i: Medieval encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim culture in confluence and dialogue, vol. 15, nr. 2-4, 2009Obligatorisk* ((temanummer av tidskriften Medieval encounters, finns som e-tidskrift via UB).)
• Kruger, Steven F, The spectral Jew: conversion and embodiment in medieval Europe, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, c2006Obligatorisk*
• Nirenberg, David, Communities of violence: persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages, Princeton, N.J., Princeton Univ. Press, cop. 1996Obligatorisk*
• Nirnberg, David, Conversion, sex, and segregation. Jews and Christians in medieval Spain, Ingår i: The American historical review., vol. 107, nr. 4, 2002, s. 1065–1093Obligatorisk*
• Roos, Lena, Att studera medeltiden, 1. uppl., Lund, Studentlitteratur, 2008Obligatorisk*
• Roos, Lena, Kristendomen med bröstmjölken? Nära relationer mellan judar och kristna under medeltiden, Ingår i: Religion och bibel: Nathan Söderblom-sällskapets årsbok, vol. LXV, 2008, s. 75–89Obligatorisk*
• Källtexter (50 sidor)

* Obligatorisk