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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: Worldvalues, data, interpretations, etc.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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