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Theoretical Reasoning and Empirical methods in the Social Sciences of Religion: Master course, 15 credits

The course is discontinued from 2025-05-08

Swedish name: Teori, empiri och metod i religionsvetenskapliga samhällsstudier: Masterkurs

This syllabus is valid: 2012-08-27 valid to 2013-05-12 (newer version of the syllabus exists)

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Course code: 1RE145

Credit points: 15

Education level: Second cycle

Main Field of Study and progress level: Religion and Theology: Second cycle, has second-cycle course/s as entry requirements

Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail

Responsible department: Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies

Literature

Valid from: 2012 week 36

Caldwell Sarah
Oh terrifying mother : sexuality, violence and worship of the goddess Kāḷi
New Delhi : Oxford Univ. Press : 1999 : 320 s. :
ISBN: 0-19-564462-X
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Cohen Emma
The mind possessed : the cognition of spirit possession in an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2007. : ix, 241 p. :

ISBN: 978-0-19-532335-1 (cloth : alk. paper)
Mandatory
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Crapanzano Vincent
Tuhami : portrait of a Moroccan
Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press : cop. 1980 : xv, 187 s. :
ISBN: 0-226-11870-3 (inb.)
Mandatory
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Deeb Lara
An enchanted modern : gender and public piety in Shi'i Lebanon
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press : 2006 : 263 s. :
ISBN: 0-691-12421-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Jordt Ingrid
Burma's mass lay meditation movement : Buddhism and the cultural construction of power
Athens : Ohio University Press : 2007 : 265 s. :

ISBN: 0-89680-255-8 (hft.)
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Kripal Jeffrey John
Kālī's child : the mystical and the erotic in the life and teachings of Ramakrishna
Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press : 1995 : xxi, 386 s. :
ISBN: 0-226-45375-8 (inb.)
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Lindberg Falk Monica
Making fields of merit : Buddhist female ascetics and gendered orders in Thailand
Seattle : University of Washington Press : 2007 : xv, 283 p. :

ISBN: 978-0-295-98726-2 (pbk)
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Mahmood Saba
Politics of piety : the Islamic revival and the feminist subject
Princeton : Princeton University Press : 2005 : 233 s. :
ISBN: 0-691-08695-8 (hft.)
Mandatory
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