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2024 Spring

POLITICS OF RELIGION AND ETHNICITY - IRS232/IRS532 Spring 2024


Course
Tomas Dolezal
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Lessons

Here is the course outline:

1. Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics: An introductory overview

Feb 8

2. What do/can we know about Religion(s)?

Feb 15

3. What do we (and others) mean by Ethnicity?

4. Religion and (International) Politics

5. Ethnicity and Religion as such: Ethnicity, Religion and their various cases, traditions, demonstr...

Students have opportunity to choose, study and discuss more in depth particular aspects, groups, traditions, and cases from various perspectives of anthropology, sociology perspective or political science.

6. Intersections of Ethnicity and Religion

Mar 15

Ethnoreligious identities and Nationalism, Xenophobia etc.

7. Secularism & State-Religion(Church) Relations

Mar 22

(Constitution /Law /Public Spaces /Schools /Army /Citizenship/ Laicite/ Church-state relation etc.)

8. Identity polics, Multiculturalism, Governance of religious/ethnic diversity (models and case stud...

Mar 29

9. Political parties/movements/institutions – and Religion/Ethnicity

Apr 5

10. Religion/Ethnicity in current "Culture Wars" politics: ´: Political polarization, Morality politi...

Apr 19

11. Reigious fundamentalism, radicalization and extremism

12. Religion and conflict (and reconciliation)

13. Ethnicity and violent conflicts

May 10
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