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2026 Fall

Politics of Religion and Ethnicity - IRS232/IRS532 Fall 2026


Course
Tomas Dolezal
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Lessons

Here is the course outline:

1. Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics: An introductory overview

Sep 6

2. What do/can we know about Religion(s)?

Sep 13

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 12

Ethnoreligious identities and Nationalism, Xenophobia etc.

7. Secularism & State-Religion(Church) Relations

Oct 19

(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 26

9. Political parties/movements/institutions – and Religion/Ethnicity

Nov 2

10. Religion/Ethnicity in current "Culture Wars" politics: ´: Political polarization, Morality politi...

Nov 16

11. Reigious fundamentalism, radicalization and extremism

12. Religion and conflict (and reconciliation)

13. Ethnicity and violent conflicts

Dec 7

14. Open topic - Digital politics of ethnicity and religion

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