RELV228/328. Religion and politics I
(fall 2011)
Beyer, Peter. 2006. Religions
in Global Society. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-39319-5 (pbk). 301 pp.
Juergensmeyer, Mark. 2008. Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian
Militias to Al Qaeda (Contemporary Studies in Religion and Society 16).
Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-25554-2 (pbk). 313 pp.
Norris, Pippa & Ronald Inglehart. 2004. Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics
Worldwide (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-54872-4 (pbk). Only pp.
1–156, 215–241.
Routledge Handbook of
Religions and Politics (Routledge International
Handbooks). Ed. by Jeffrey Haynes. London 2009: Routledge. ISBN
978-0-415-41455-5 (hbk), 978-0-203-89054-7 (ebk). Only pp. 1–140.
Strenski, Ivan. 2010. Why Politics can’t be Freed from Religion (Blackwell Manifestos).
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-7648-4 (pbk). 186 pp.
In addition, the student is recommended to read five
newspapers regularly on Internet, one African, one Asiatic, one European, one
North American and one South American, with focus on articles on religion and
politics. The choice of journal is optional. See for example:
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/