1. To enable students to understand the variety of religious expressions in the contemporary world.
2. To equip them to make informed and intelligent judgments and appreciations of such expressions.
3. To enable them to understand the social, political and cultural conditions which give rise to such expressions.
4. To enable them to understand the impact on the political process, local and global, of such expressions, in particular in regard to processes of identity formation at individual and group levels.
5. To enable the students to acquire an informed and critical understanding of key concepts employed in this field, including "globalisation," "secularisation" and "fundamentalism".
6. To aid in the development of high-level oral and written communication skills.

Topics include the development of religious fundamentalisms, gender and religion issues, left-wing religious movements of resistance to social oppression, and intersections between religion and environmental politics. Case studies are drawn from various societies and cultural arenas. The aim is to enable students to reach a sympathetic yet critical understanding of the place of these developments in contemporary societies.

SOCA2520

Students who have successfully completed SOCA2520 are not permitted to take this course.

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40 units of study at 1000 level.

Flexible Delivery / Student Centred Learning
Internal Mode

Lecture
Integrated Learning
Tutorial

Lecture: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Tutorial: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term