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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

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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: 2019 week 1

Valid from: 2015 week 30

Handbok i kvalitativa metoder
Ahrne Göran, Svensson Peter
1. uppl. : Malmö : Liber : 2011 : 245 s. :
ISBN: 978-91-47-09446-2
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Tolkning och reflektion : vetenskapsfilosofi och kvalitativ metod
Alvesson M., Sköldberg K.
2. uppl : Lund : Studentlitteratur : 2008 : 598 s. :
ISBN: 9789144046150
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Sacred stories, spiritual tribes : finding religion in everyday life
Ammerman Nancy Tatom
New York : Oxford University Press : 2013. : 1 online resource :
Table of Contents / Abstracts
ISBN: 9780199367702 (ebook)
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The mind possessed : the cognition of spirit possession in an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition
Cohen Emma
Oxford : Oxford University Press : 2007. : ix, 241 p. :

ISBN: 978-0-19-532335-1 (cloth : alk. paper)
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The new Arab revolutions that shook the world
Khosrokhavar Farhad
Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers : cop. 2012 : ix, 351 p. :
ISBN: 1612050832
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Qualitative psychology : a practical guide to research methods
Smith Jonathan A.
2. ed. : London : SAGE : 2007. : 276 s. :
ISBN: 9781412930833 (hbk.)
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Det religiösa självet i praktik vid ett hinduiskt gudinnetempel : ett kulturpsykologiskt angreppssätt för religionspsykologi
Ståhle Göran Viktor
Uppsala : Uppsala universitet : 2004 : 299 s. :

ISBN: 91-506-1784-2
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Valid from: 2013 week 22

The sacred is the profane : the political nature of religion
Arnal William E., McCutcheon Russell T.
New York : Oxford University Press : 2013. : 240 p. :
ISBN: 978-0-19-975711-4
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Religion in human evolution : from the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
Bellah Robert Neelly
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press : 2011 : xxvii, 746 p. :
ISBN: 9780674061439
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The righteous mind : why good people are divided by politics and religion
Haidt Jonathan.
New York : Pantheon Books : 2012. : 419 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-307-37790-6
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Crossing and dwelling : a theory of religion
Tweed Thomas A.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press : 2008. : 278 s. :
ISBN: 0-674-02764-7 (pbk.)
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More than belief : a materialist theory of religion
Vásquez Manuel A.
New York : Oxford University Press : 2011. : 382 p. :
ISBN: 0195188535 ¹60.00
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Darwin's cathedral : evolution, religion, and the nature of society
Wilson David Sloan.
Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press : 2002. : 268 s. :
ISBN: 0-226-90134-3 : £16.00
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Valid from: 2012 week 36

Oh terrifying mother : sexuality, violence and worship of the goddess Kāḷi
Caldwell Sarah
New Delhi : Oxford Univ. Press : 1999 : 320 s. :
ISBN: 0-19-564462-X
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Tuhami : portrait of a Moroccan
Crapanzano Vincent
Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press : cop. 1980 : xv, 187 s. :
ISBN: 0-226-11870-3 (inb.)
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An enchanted modern : gender and public piety in Shi'i Lebanon
Deeb Lara
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press : 2006 : 263 s. :
ISBN: 0-691-12421-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Burma's mass lay meditation movement : Buddhism and the cultural construction of power
Jordt Ingrid
Athens : Ohio University Press : 2007 : 265 s. :

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

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