MSc Religion in the Contemporary World

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of four full units.

Paper

Course number and title

1

AN466

Understanding Religion in the Contemporary World

2

Courses to the value of one full unit from the following: 

 

AN419

Anthropology of Christianity (H)

AN420

Anthropology of South-East Asia (H)

AN424  

Anthropology of Melanesia (H)

AN429

Anthropology of Southern Africa (H) (n/a 13/14)

AN444

Investigating the Philippines: New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (H) (n/a 13/14)

AN459

Anthropology and Media (H)

AN461

Anthropological approaches to questions of Being (H) (n/a 13/14)

AN462

Anthropology of Post-Soviet Eurasia (H) (n/a 13/14)

AN467

Anthropology of South Asia (H) (n/a 13/14)

AN470

Anthropology of Religion: Current theories and themes (H)

EU424

The Idea of Europe (H)

EU437

Europe Beyond Modernity (H)

GV4C9

Democratization and its Discontents in Southeast Asia (H)

GV4D3

Local Power in an Era of Globalization, Democratization, and Decentralization (H)

IR461

Islam in International Relations: From Al-Andalus to Afghanistan

IR465

The International Politics of Culture and Religion

3

Courses to value of one full unit from the following:

 

AN405

Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender 

AN421

Anthropology of Industrialisation and Industrial Life (H) (n/a 13/14)  

AN451

Anthropology of Politics (H) 

AN456

Anthropology of Economics 1) Production and Exchange (H)

AN457

Anthropology of Economics 2) Development, Transformation and Globalisation (H)

HY426

The European Enlightenment: c.1680-1799m

HY435

Political Islam from Ibn Taymiyya to Osama Bin Laden

PS451

Cognition and Culture (H) (n/a 13/14)

SO461

Racial formations of modernity (H) (n/a 13/14)

SO464

Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Colonial Societies (H) (n/a 13/14)

SO466

Race and Biopolitics (H) (n/a 13/14)

SO467

Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Britain (post-1945) (H) (n/a 13/14)

An additional unit from Paper 2 not previously taken.

A course from another MSc subject to the approval of programme director.

4

AN497  

Dissertation: MSc Religion in the Contemporary World