MSc in Religion in the Contemporary World

Programme code: TMRECOWO

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

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) 

AN444

Investigating the Philippines: New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (H) (n/a 15/16)

AN459

Anthropology and Media (H) 

AN467

Anthropology of South Asia (H) (n/a 15/16)

AN470

Anthropology of Religion: Current themes and theories (H)

EU424

The Idea of Europe (H)

EU437

Europe Beyond Modernity (H) (n/a 15/16)

EU475

Muslims in Europe (H)

GV4C9

Democratization and its Discontents in Southeast Asia (H)

IR461

Islam in International Relations: From Al-Andalus to Afghanistan

IR465

The International Politics of Culture and Religion (n/a 15/16)

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 15/16)

AN451

Anthropology of Politics (H) 

AN456

Anthropology of Economics 1) Production and Exchange (H)

AN457

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

AN473

Anthropological Approaches to Value (H) (n/a 15/16)

HY435

Political Islam from Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS

PS451

Cognition and Culture (H)

An additional unit from Paper 2 not previously taken.

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

4

AN497  

Dissertation: Religion in the Contemporary World