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Politics of Religion and Ethnicity - IRS232/IRS532 Fall 2025
Course
Tomas Dolezal
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Lessons
Here is the course outline:
1. Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics: An introductory overview
Sep 7
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2. What do/can we know about Religion(s)?
Sep 14
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3. What do we (and others) mean by Ethnicity? |
4. Religion and (International) Politics |
5. Ethnicity and Religion as such: Ethnicity, Religion and their various cases, traditions, demonstr...Students have opportunity to choose, study and discuss more in depth particular aspects, groups, traditions, and cases from various perspectives of anthropology, sociology perspective or political science. |
6. Intersections of Ethnicity and Religion
Oct 13
Ethnoreligious identities and Nationalism, Xenophobia etc. |
7. Secularism & State-Religion(Church) Relations
Oct 20
(Constitution /Law /Public Spaces /Schools /Army /Citizenship/ Laicite/ Church-state relation etc.) |
8. Identity polics, Multiculturalism, Governance of religious/ethnic diversity (models and case stud...
Oct 27
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9. Political parties/movements/institutions – and Religion/Ethnicity
Nov 3
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10. Religion/Ethnicity in current "Culture Wars" politics: ´: Political polarization, Morality politi...
Nov 17
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11. Reigious fundamentalism, radicalization and extremism |
12. Religion and conflict (and reconciliation) |
13. Ethnicity and violent conflicts
Dec 8
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