Monash University Handbook 2011 Undergraduate - Unit

Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.

Notes

Synopsis

The unit explores ways in which religious and secular ideas and interests interact and influence each other. It discusses models of secularization (freedom of religion, freedom from religion), its historical contexts, socio-cultural tensions and governments' responses to them. It examines different models implied by the intersection between the religious and the secular and between politics and the state (religious state/religious politics, secular state/secular politics, religious state/secular politics, secular state/religious politics). Finally, the unit also looks at religio-political discourses of in- and ex-clusion underlying domestic and foreign policies of nation-states.

Assessment

Written work: 90%
Class participation: 10%

Chief examiner(s)

Tamara Prosic

Contact hours

One 90 minute lecture per week
One 1-hour tutorial per week

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Religion and theology
International studies
History

Prohibitions

ATS3636