Syllabus

Compulsory reading:

General:

• Laine, James W. (2014) Meta-religion. Religion and power in world history. University of California Press.
• Jeffrey Haynes (2006) The politics of religion. A survey. Routledge.

Specific:

• Ayubis, Nazih. 1993. "Political Islam. Why and where to?" Political Islam, Chapter 10 pp.162-180, Routledge. (18 pages) 
• Bhargava, Rajeev. 2009. "Political secularism: why it is needed and what can be learnt from its Indian version", in Geoffrey Brahm Levey and Tariq Modood eds. Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 82-109 (27 pages). 
• Chau, Adam Yuet. 2019. Religion in China: Ties that Bind. Cambridge: Polity Press. Chapter 6 (pp. 162¨C188) (26 pages)

• Donald, Alice & Erika Howard. The Right to Freedom of Religion on Belief and Its Intersection with Other Rights. London: Middlesex University / ILGA-Europe 2015 (23 pages). Download from Canvas

• European Convention on Human Rights (10 pages). Download from Canvas.
• Fahy, John: The international politics of tolerance in the Persian Gulf, I Religion, state and society, volume 46, 2018, issue 4 available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09637494.2018.1506963 

• Gregg, Heather Selma. "Three Theories of Religious Activism and Violence: Social Movements, Fundamentalists, and Apocalyptic Warriors." Terrorism and Political Violence 28, no. (2016): 338¨C360. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2014.918879

• Hill, Mark & Katherine Barnes. ¡°Limitations on Freedom of Religion and Belief in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights¡±. Jeroen Temperman, T. Jeremy Gunn & Malcolm Evans (eds.) The European Court of Human Rights and the Freedom of Religion or Belief: The 25 Years since Kokkinakis. Leiden: Brill 2019: 82-102 (21 pages). Download from Canvas.
• H?lcher, Lucian. 2015. "Contradictory Concepts. An Essay on the Semantic Structure of Religious Discourses", History of Concepts, Vol. 10, No.1 (June 2015), pp. 69-88 (19 pages) 
• Lee, Timothy. 2000. "A Political Factor in the Rise of Protestantism in Korea: Protestantism and the 1919 MarchFirst Movement", Church History, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Mar., 2000), pp. 116-142 (26 pages) 
• Lia, Brynjar and Petter Nesser. "Jihadism in Norway: a Typology of Militant Networks in a Peripheral European Country." Perspectives on Terrorism 10, no.6 (2016): 121-134. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26297712
• Turam, Berna. "From fences that divide to boundaries that link the state and Islam", in Between Islam and the State (2007, pp. 37-66) (29 pages) 
• United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief Report of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Belief (A/HRC/37/49), 28 February 2018 (19 pages). Download from Canvas.