MSc in Social Anthropology (Religion in the Contemporary World)

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Programme Code: TMSARCW

Department: Anthropology

For students starting this programme of study in 2021/22

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of four full units. Attendance at seminars and at non-assessed tutorials is compulsory.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.
Paper	Course number, title (unit value)

Paper 1	AN402 The Anthropology of Religion (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26)

Paper 2
	Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following: AN419 The Anthropology of Christianity (0.5)
	AN420 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	AN424 The Anthropology of Melanesia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	AN444 Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25)
	AN461 Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)
	AN467 The Anthropology of South Asia (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)
	EU437 Europe Beyond Modernity (0.5)
	EU475 Europe and the Politics of Secularism (0.5)
	GV4C9 Globalization and Democratization in Southeast Asia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	IR461 Islam in World Politics (1.0) (withdrawn 2023/24)
	IR465 The International Politics of Culture and Religion (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26)

Paper 3
	Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following:
	AN404 Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography (1.0)
	AN405 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26)
	AN451 Politics and Power: Debates in Anthropology (0.5)
	AN456 Economic Anthropology (0.5)
	AN457 Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and Globalisation (0.5) (withdrawn 2025/26)
	AN479 Anthropology of Law and Human Rights (0.5)
	AN480 Public Anthropology (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	AN481 Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives (0.5) (withdrawn 2025/26)
	EU478 The Culture of European Politics (0.5)
	HY435 Political Islam from Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS (1.0)
	PB416 Cognition and Culture (0.5) (withdrawn 2024/25)

	An additional unit from Paper 2 not previously taken or a course from another MSc subject to the approval of programme director. Paper 2 options list
Paper 4	AN497 Dissertation: Religion in the Contemporary World (1.0)

Paper 2 options list



AN419 The Anthropology of Christianity (0.5)
AN420 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
AN424 The Anthropology of Melanesia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
AN467 The Anthropology of South Asia (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)
AN469 The Anthropology of Amazonia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
AN477 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)
AN492 Anthropological Entanglements in the Middle East (0.5)
EU437 Europe Beyond Modernity (0.5)
EU475 Europe and the Politics of Secularism (0.5)
EU478 The Culture of European Politics (0.5)
GV4C9 Globalization and Democratization in Southeast Asia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
HY435 Political Islam from Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS (1.0)
IR465 The International Politics of Culture and Religion (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26)
IR4B1 Islam in World Politics (0.5)

Footnotes

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

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