Swedish name: Religionshistoria: magisterkurs
This syllabus is valid: 2020-03-09 valid to 2022-08-14 (newer version of the syllabus exists)
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Course code: 1RE205
Credit points: 15
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level:
Religion and Theology: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Three-grade scale
Responsible department: Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Revised by: Head of Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, 2020-03-09
Grimes Ronald L.
The craft of ritual studies
New York : Oxford University Press : 2014. : 1 online resource :
Table of Contents / Abstracts
ISBN: 9780199369164
Mandatory
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Nongbri Brent
Before religion : a history of a modern concept
New Haven : Yale University Press : 2013. : ix, 275p. :
ISBN: 978-0-300-21678-3
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Pals Daniel L.
Nine theories of religion
Third Edition. : New York : Oxford University Press : 2014. : 374 s. :
ISBN: 9780199859092
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
The Routledge handbook of research methods in the study of religion
Stausberg Michael, Engler Steven
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge : 2011 : xxi, 543 p. :
ISBN: 9780415559201 (hbk : alk. paper)
Mandatory
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Alles Gregory
The study of religion: The last 50 years, i John Hinnels (red.), The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion
London: Routledge : 2010 :
Mandatory
Sharpe Eric J
The study of religion in historical perspective, i John Hinnels (red.), The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion
London: Routledge : 2010 :
Mandatory
Sinding Jensen Jeppe
Religion as the unintended product of brain functions in the standard cognitive science of religion model" Michael Stausberg (red.), Contemporary Theories of Religion: A Critical Companion
London: Routledge : 2009 :
Stausberg Michael
Interventionist practices and the promises of religion, i Michael Stausberg (red.), Contemporary Theories of Religion: A Critical Companion,
London: Routledge : * :
Mandatory
Gill Sam D.
Mother Earth : an American story
Chicago : University of Chicago Press : 1987 : 196 s. :
ISBN: 0-226-29371-8
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Gill Sam D.
Creative encounters, appreciating difference : perspectives and strategies
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books : [2019] : xiv, 257 pages :
ISBN: 9781498580878
Mandatory
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Cox James L.
The invention of god in indigenous societies
Durham : Acumen : 2014 : x, 182 p. :
ISBN: 978-1-84465-755-1
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Sundström Olle
Vad sorts storhet är en "gud"? : Missionärer, religionsvetare och samiska föreställningar
Oslo : Novus Forlag : 2012 :
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-66481
Mandatory
"Vildrenen är själv detsamma som en gud" : "gudar" och "andar" i sovjetiska etnografers beskrivningar av samojediska världsåskådningar
Sundström Olle, Rydving Håkan, Zipernovszky Hanna, Siikala Anna-Leena
Umeå : Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier : 2008 : 382 :
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1951
Mandatory
Nordberg Andreas
Old customs the vernacular word siðr and its cognates in the study of (lived) religion in Viking and medieval Scandinavia,
i Temenos: Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion : 2018 :
Sundström Olle
I havent fully understood is shamanism religion or not? Some reflections on the concepts of shamanism and religion in Soviet discourse
i Temenos: Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion : 2018 :
Schilbrack Kevin
"A realist ontology of religion
i Religion : 2017 :
Tafjord Bjørn Ola
Indigenous religion(s) as an analytical category
i Method and Theory in the Study of Religion : 2013 :
Grimes Ronald L.
The craft of ritual studies
New York : Oxford University Press : 2014. : 1 online resource :
Table of Contents / Abstracts
ISBN: 9780199369164
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Nongbri Brent
Before religion : a history of a modern concept
New Haven : Yale University Press : 2013. : ix, 275p. :
ISBN: 978-0-300-21678-3
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Pals Daniel L.
Nine theories of religion
Third Edition. : New York : Oxford University Press : 2014. : 374 s. :
ISBN: 9780199859092
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
The Routledge handbook of research methods in the study of religion
Stausberg Michael, Engler Steven
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge : 2011 : xxi, 543 p. :
ISBN: 9780415559201 (hbk : alk. paper)
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Alles Gregory
The study of religion: The last 50 years, i John Hinnels (red.), The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion
London: Routledge : 2010 :
Mandatory
Sharpe Eric J
The study of religion in historical perspective, i John Hinnels (red.), The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion
London: Routledge : 2010 :
Mandatory
Sinding Jensen Jeppe
Religion as the unintended product of brain functions in the standard cognitive science of religion model" Michael Stausberg (red.), Contemporary Theories of Religion: A Critical Companion
London: Routledge : 2009 :
Stausberg Michael
Interventionist practices and the promises of religion, i Michael Stausberg (red.), Contemporary Theories of Religion: A Critical Companion,
London: Routledge : * :
Mandatory
Gill Sam D.
Mother Earth : an American story
Chicago : University of Chicago Press : 1987 : 196 s. :
ISBN: 0-226-29371-8
Search the University Library catalogue
Gill Sam D.
Creative encounters, appreciating difference : perspectives and strategies
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books : [2019] : xiv, 257 pages :
ISBN: 9781498580878
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Cox James L.
The invention of god in indigenous societies
Durham : Acumen : 2014 : x, 182 p. :
ISBN: 978-1-84465-755-1
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Sundström Olle
Vad sorts storhet är en "gud"? : Missionärer, religionsvetare och samiska föreställningar
Oslo : Novus Forlag : 2012 :
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-66481
Mandatory
"Vildrenen är själv detsamma som en gud" : "gudar" och "andar" i sovjetiska etnografers beskrivningar av samojediska världsåskådningar
Sundström Olle, Rydving Håkan, Zipernovszky Hanna, Siikala Anna-Leena
Umeå : Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier : 2008 : 382 :
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1951
Mandatory
Nordberg Andreas
Old customs the vernacular word siðr and its cognates in the study of (lived) religion in Viking and medieval Scandinavia,
i Temenos: Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion : 2018 :
Sundström Olle
I havent fully understood is shamanism religion or not? Some reflections on the concepts of shamanism and religion in Soviet discourse
i Temenos: Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion : 2018 :
Schilbrack Kevin
"A realist ontology of religion
i Religion : 2017 :
Tafjord Bjørn Ola
Indigenous religion(s) as an analytical category
i Method and Theory in the Study of Religion : 2013 :