RELIGION AND PUBLIC EDUCATION

RELIGST 500

Topics may include religion in specific contexts, religion and other disciplines or specific themes in Religious Studies.

RELIGST 401

Topics in religious studies in the social sciences.

RELIGST 410

Based upon the assumption children are important participants in religious communities; that they co-create their religious traditions. Through studies of children's lives in various religious communities in America (mostly), explore how including children's perspectives shifts general claims about religious groups and their practices.

RELIGST 101

Foundational and thematic approaches in the academic study of religion applied across global religious systems.

POLISCI/RELIGST 433

Explores the relationships and interactions between religion and politics from a comparative perspective. Discuss the appropriate relationship between religion and state. Investigate the implications of the various ways in which the religion-state relationship have been involved in political conflict. Building on this, turn to several of the current issues in religion and politics asking: Why is religion apparently more important than ever despite an increasingly secular world? What is religious nationalism? What is fundamentalism? How can we explain the similarities and differences between religious fundamentalist movements across the globe? How should democratic states cope with the emergence of fundamentalist movements? In order to begin answering these questions, integrate the theoretical frameworks we develop with explorations of the historical and local context of relevant case-studies from around the world.