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Religious Studies 3, 30 credits

Swedish name: Religionsvetenskap 3
This syllabus is valid: 2023-06-05 valid to 2026-08-30 (newer version of the syllabus exists)
Syllabus for courses starting between 2023-06-05 and 2026-08-30
Course code: 6RV026
Credit points: 30
Education level: First cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: Religion and Theology: First cycle, has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Established by: Faculty director of studies, Faculty of arts, 2021-12-21
Revised by: Head of Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, 2023-01-18

Literature

Moment 1

Existentialismen är en humanism
Sartre Jean-Paul, Elkaïm-Sartre Arlette, Johansson Hans
Umeå : h:ström : [2020] : 97 sidor :
ISBN: 9789173272865
LIBRIS ID: drrzsw0nbjcrj1b3
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Reading instructions: Alternatively Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism Is a Humanism, 2007, Yale University press, ISBN: 9789173272865

Humanism : a very short introduction
Law Stephen.
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2011 : xiv, 150 p. :
ISBN: 9780199553648
LIBRIS ID: n1gpw21llxw4zwf6
Mandatory
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There is no point of no return
Næss Arne
[London] : Penguin Books : 2021 : 101 pages :
ISBN: 0241514614
LIBRIS ID: m3tf3tnsk0h8h47b
Mandatory
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Vad är queer?
Ambjörnsson Fanny
2. utg. : Stockholm : Natur & kultur : 2016 : 216 s. :
ISBN: 9789127147461
LIBRIS ID: 19088221
Mandatory
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Encyclopedia of Black studies
Asante Molefi Kete, Mazama Ama
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE : c2005 : 1 online resource (xxxii, 531 p.) :
Online access for UMUB
ISBN: 9781412952538
LIBRIS ID: 11444426
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Articles will be added

Moment 2

Reconstruction, Critical Accommodation or Business as Usual? Challenges of Criticisms of the World Religions Paradigm to the Design of Teaching Programmes in the Study of Religions
Alberts Wanda
The Netherlands: Brill : 2017 :
Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 29 (2017) 443-458
Mandatory

Ethical issues in six religious traditions
Lawton Clive., Morgan Peggy.
2. ed. : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press : 2007 : xxx, 354 p. :
ISBN: 9780748623297
LIBRIS ID: 10519479
Mandatory
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Bridging the divide : casuistry and the integration of religious and philosophical ethics in RE
Lindström Niclas
Routledge : 2026 :

LIBRIS ID: 0lrl3z3fxpkmq7gm
Mandatory

Articles will be added

Reference works

The Blackwell companion to religious ethics
Schweiker William
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub. : 2005 : 1 online resource (636 p.) :
Online access for UMUB
LIBRIS ID: 11897020

Articles will be added. Most of the literature is available electronically

The Oxford handbook of digital religion
Campbell Heidi, Cheong Pauline Hope
New York, NY : Oxford University Press : [2024] : xiii, 661 pages :

LIBRIS ID: scgdntvdq7jvv6rj
ISBN: 9780197549803
Mandatory
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Digital Religion: the Basics
Bellar Wendi
Routledge : 2022 :

LIBRIS ID: xgt63sbjvc8j6cls
Mandatory

Why Do Christian Churches Build Congregations Online?
Gelfgren Stefan
Routledge : 2025 :

LIBRIS ID: zkds8xdjw1j3kxl1
Mandatory

Moment 4

Moment 1

Existentialismen är en humanism
Sartre Jean-Paul, Elkaïm-Sartre Arlette, Johansson Hans
Umeå : h:ström : [2020] : 97 sidor :
ISBN: 9789173272865
LIBRIS ID: drrzsw0nbjcrj1b3
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Reading instructions: Alternatively Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism Is a Humanism, 2007, Yale University press, ISBN: 9789173272865

Humanism : a very short introduction
Law Stephen.
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2011 : xiv, 150 p. :
ISBN: 9780199553648
LIBRIS ID: n1gpw21llxw4zwf6
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

There is no point of no return
Næss Arne
[London] : Penguin Books : 2021 : 101 pages :
ISBN: 0241514614
LIBRIS ID: m3tf3tnsk0h8h47b
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Vad är queer?
Ambjörnsson Fanny
2. utg. : Stockholm : Natur & kultur : 2016 : 216 s. :
ISBN: 9789127147461
LIBRIS ID: 19088221
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Encyclopedia of Black studies
Asante Molefi Kete, Mazama Ama
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE : c2005 : 1 online resource (xxxii, 531 p.) :
Online access for UMUB
ISBN: 9781412952538
LIBRIS ID: 11444426
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Articles will be added

Moment 2

Reconstruction, Critical Accommodation or Business as Usual? Challenges of Criticisms of the World Religions Paradigm to the Design of Teaching Programmes in the Study of Religions
Alberts Wanda
The Netherlands: Brill : 2017 :
Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 29 (2017) 443-458
Mandatory

Ethical issues in six religious traditions
Lawton Clive., Morgan Peggy.
2. ed. : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press : 2007 : xxx, 354 p. :
ISBN: 9780748623297
LIBRIS ID: 10519479
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Articles will be added

Reference works

The Blackwell companion to religious ethics
Schweiker William
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub. : 2005 : 1 online resource (636 p.) :
Online access for UMUB
LIBRIS ID: 11897020

Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty-first Century (SUNY series in religious studies)
S. Cromwell Crawford
State University of New York Press : 2003 :
Online access for UMUB
LIBRIS ID: 14586194

Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (Very short introductions)
Keown Damien
Oxford University Press : 2005 :
LIBRIS ID: 14183770

Jewish Bioethics: Rabbinic Law and Theology in Their Social and Historical Contexts
Barilan
Cambridge University Press : 2013 :
LIBRIS ID: 16199687

Christian ethics and contemporary moral problems
Banner Michael C.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 1999 : xvi, 325 p. :
Table of Contents / Abstracts
LIBRIS ID: 9779625

The Oxford handbook of digital religion
Campbell Heidi, Cheong Pauline Hope
New York, NY : Oxford University Press : [2024] : xiii, 661 pages :

LIBRIS ID: scgdntvdq7jvv6rj
ISBN: 9780197549803
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Digital Religion: the Basics
Bellar Wendi
Routledge : 2022 :

LIBRIS ID: xgt63sbjvc8j6cls
Mandatory

Why Do Christian Churches Build Congregations Online?
Gelfgren Stefan
Routledge : 2025 :

LIBRIS ID: zkds8xdjw1j3kxl1
Mandatory

Moment 4

Moment 1

Existentialismen är en humanism
Sartre Jean-Paul, Elkaïm-Sartre Arlette, Johansson Hans
Umeå : h:ström : [2020] : 97 sidor :
ISBN: 9789173272865
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Reading instructions: Alternatively Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism Is a Humanism, 2007, Yale University press, ISBN: 9789173272865

Humanism : a very short introduction
Law Stephen.
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2011 : xiv, 150 p. :
ISBN: 9780199553648
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

There is no point of no return
Næss Arne
[London] : Penguin Books : 2021 : 101 pages :
ISBN: 0241514614
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Vad är queer?
Ambjörnsson Fanny
2. utg. : Stockholm : Natur & kultur : 2016 : 216 s. :
ISBN: 9789127147461
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Encyclopedia of Black studies
Asante Molefi Kete, Mazama Ama
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE : c2005 : 1 online resource (xxxii, 531 p.) :
Online access for UMUB
ISBN: 9781412952538
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Articles will be added

Moment 2

Reconstruction, Critical Accommodation or Business as Usual? Challenges of Criticisms of the World Religions Paradigm to the Design of Teaching Programmes in the Study of Religions
Alberts Wanda
The Netherlands: Brill : 2017 :
Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 29 (2017) 443-458
Mandatory

Ethical issues in six religious traditions
Lawton Clive., Morgan Peggy.
2. ed. : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press : 2007 : xxx, 354 p. :
ISBN: 9780748623297
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Articles will be added

Reference works

The Blackwell companion to religious ethics
Schweiker William
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub. : 2005 : 1 online resource (636 p.) :
Online access for UMUB

Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty-first Century (SUNY series in religious studies)
S. Cromwell Crawford
State University of New York Press : 2003 :
Online access for UMUB

Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (Very short introductions)
Keown Damien
Oxford University Press : 2005 :

Jewish Bioethics: Rabbinic Law and Theology in Their Social and Historical Contexts
Barilan
Cambridge University Press : 2013 :

Christian ethics and contemporary moral problems
Banner Michael C.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 1999 : xvi, 325 p. :
Table of Contents / Abstracts

The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion : edited by Heidi A. Campbell, Pauline Cheong
Campbell Heidi, Cheong Pauline Hope
New York : Oxford University Press : [2022] : 1 Online-Ressource :
lizenzpflichtig
ISBN: 9780197549834
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Moment 4

Moment 1

Existentialismen är en humanism
Sartre Jean-Paul, Elkaïm-Sartre Arlette, Johansson Hans
Umeå : h:ström : [2020] : 97 sidor :
ISBN: 9789173272865
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Reading instructions: Alternatively Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism Is a Humanism, 2007, Yale University press, ISBN: 9789173272865

Humanism : a very short introduction
Law Stephen.
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2011 : xiv, 150 p. :
ISBN: 9780199553648
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

There is no point of no return
Næss Arne
[London] : Penguin Books : 2021 : 101 pages :
ISBN: 0241514614
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Vad är queer?
Ambjörnsson Fanny
2. utg. : Stockholm : Natur & kultur : 2016 : 216 s. :
ISBN: 9789127147461
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Articles will be added

Moment 2

Reconstruction, Critical Accommodation or Business as Usual? Challenges of Criticisms of the World Religions Paradigm to the Design of Teaching Programmes in the Study of Religions
Alberts Wanda
The Netherlands: Brill : 2017 :
Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 29 (2017) 443-458
Mandatory

Ethical issues in six religious traditions
Lawton Clive., Morgan Peggy.
2. ed. : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press : 2007 : xxx, 354 p. :
ISBN: 9780748623297
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Articles will be added

Reference works

The Blackwell companion to religious ethics
Schweiker William
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub. : 2005 : 1 online resource (636 p.) :
Online access for UMUB

Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty-first Century (SUNY series in religious studies)
S. Cromwell Crawford
State University of New York Press : 2003 :
Online access for UMUB

Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (Very short introductions)
Keown Damien
Oxford University Press : 2005 :

Jewish Bioethics: Rabbinic Law and Theology in Their Social and Historical Contexts
Barilan
Cambridge University Press : 2013 :

Christian ethics and contemporary moral problems
Banner Michael C.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 1999 : xvi, 325 p. :
Table of Contents / Abstracts

The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion : edited by Heidi A. Campbell, Pauline Cheong
Campbell Heidi, Cheong Pauline Hope
New York : Oxford University Press : [2022] : 1 Online-Ressource :
lizenzpflichtig
ISBN: 9780197549834
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Moment 4

The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements
Hammer Olav., Rothstein Mikael.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 2012 : 1 online resource (341 p.) :
Table of Contents / Abstracts
ISBN: 9781139022651
Mandatory
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Comprehending cults :b the sociology of new religious movements
Dawson Lorne L.
2. ed. : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press : 2006 : 266 s. :
ISBN: 0-19-542009-8 (hft.)
Mandatory
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Guds nya barnbarn : att växa upp i kontroversiella religiösa grupper
Frisk Liselotte, Nilsson Sanja, Åkerbäck Peter
Första upplagan : Stockholm : Dialogos : 2017 : 322 sidor :
ISBN: 978-91-7504-327-2
Mandatory
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Goddesses in myth, history and culture
Beavis Mary Ann, Hwang Helen Hye-Sook
[Lytle Creek, California] : Mago books : [2018] : 423 sidor :
ISBN: 9781976331022
Mandatory
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Moment 1

Existentialismen är en humanism
Sartre Jean-Paul, Elkaïm-Sartre Arlette, Johansson Hans
Umeå : h:ström : [2020] : 97 sidor :
ISBN: 9789173272865
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Reading instructions: Alternatively Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism Is a Humanism, 2007, Yale University press, ISBN: 9789173272865

Genus
Eriksson Mia, Gottzén Lucas
Första upplagan : Stockholm : Liber : [2020] : 128 sidor :
ISBN: 9789147088997
Mandatory
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Humanism : a very short introduction
Law Stephen.
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2011 : xiv, 150 p. :
ISBN: 9780199553648
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

There is no point of no return
Næss Arne
[London] : Penguin Books : 2021 : 101 pages :
ISBN: 0241514614
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Articles will be added

Moment 2

Reconstruction, Critical Accommodation or Business as Usual? Challenges of Criticisms of the World Religions Paradigm to the Design of Teaching Programmes in the Study of Religions
Alberts Wanda
The Netherlands: Brill : 2017 :
Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 29 (2017) 443-458
Mandatory

Ethical issues in six religious traditions
Lawton Clive., Morgan Peggy.
2. ed. : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press : 2007 : xxx, 354 p. :
ISBN: 9780748623297
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Articles will be added

Reference works

The Blackwell companion to religious ethics
Schweiker William
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub. : 2005 : 1 online resource (636 p.) :
Online access for UMUB

Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty-first Century (SUNY series in religious studies)
S. Cromwell Crawford
State University of New York Press : 2003 :
Online access for UMUB

Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (Very short introductions)
Keown Damien
Oxford University Press : 2005 :

Jewish Bioethics: Rabbinic Law and Theology in Their Social and Historical Contexts
Barilan
Cambridge University Press : 2013 :

Christian ethics and contemporary moral problems
Banner Michael C.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 1999 : xvi, 325 p. :
Table of Contents / Abstracts

The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion : edited by Heidi A. Campbell, Pauline Cheong
Campbell Heidi, Cheong Pauline Hope
New York : Oxford University Press : [2022] : 1 Online-Ressource :
lizenzpflichtig
ISBN: 9780197549834
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Moment 4

The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements
Hammer Olav., Rothstein Mikael.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press : 2012 : 1 online resource (341 p.) :
Table of Contents / Abstracts
ISBN: 9781139022651
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Comprehending cults :b the sociology of new religious movements
Dawson Lorne L.
2. ed. : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press : 2006 : 266 s. :
ISBN: 0-19-542009-8 (hft.)
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Guds nya barnbarn : att växa upp i kontroversiella religiösa grupper
Frisk Liselotte, Nilsson Sanja, Åkerbäck Peter
Första upplagan : Stockholm : Dialogos : 2017 : 322 sidor :
ISBN: 978-91-7504-327-2
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Goddesses in myth, history and culture
Beavis Mary Ann, Hwang Helen Hye-Sook
[Lytle Creek, California] : Mago books : [2018] : 423 sidor :
ISBN: 9781976331022
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue