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Religion in International Relations

Key information

  • Module code:

    5AAT2830

  • Level:

    5

  • Semester:

      Autumn

  • Credit value:

    15

Module description

This is a core second year module for students studying BA Religion, Politics and Society, and an optional module for other BA programmes in the Department. It explores the ways in which supra-national governmental institutions and global civil society organisations deal with religious pluralism and freedom of belief/unbelief, protection of religious minorities, individual and communitarian rights, sectarian politics, self-determination of ethno-religious communities, humanitarian interventions and religious separatist movements. The module also examines the salience of bottom up transnational religious mobilisation. Topics include humanitarian intervention in religious and ethnic conflicts, religion in transnational political mobilisation, the debate on freedom of speech and religion in the UN and the EU.

Assessment details

One 3,000 word essay (100%)

Teaching pattern

One-hour lectures and one-hour seminars per week over ten weeks

Subject areas

Department

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