MA Religion in Global Politics

Master

In City of London

£ 9,225 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    City of london

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Start of programme: October
Mode of Attendance: Full-time or Part-time
FROM 2017-18
Students must take 180 credits comprised of 120 taught credits (including core and option modules) and a 60 credit dissertation.
The programme is designed to appeal to policy-makers, analysts, journalists and researchers in either international, national or regional institutions and organisations engaged in policy formation, inter-religious dialogue and community development, social work, development, conflict resolution, peace building or diversity management. It will also provide a solid basis from which to pursue doctoral study. The programme is intended to enable professional development in the area of ‘Religion and Politics’ as well to provide pre-doctoral research training in social scientific analyses of ‘Religion and Politics’.
Programme Handbook (text-plain:formatted; 702kb)
Programme Description
Religion has become a force to be reckoned with in the contemporary global geopolitical landscape and as such demands a reassessment of once predominant understandings of processes of secularisation, as well as the meanings of, and tensions inherent within, secular assumptions and secularist positions. The so-called ‘resurgence’ of religion in the public sphere in recent decades is now a significant area of interdisciplinary scholarship eliciting a complex array of responses, ranging from vehement opposition to the very idea that religious concepts and commitments have a right to expression in political debates, to a reassessment of the origins and implications of divisions between the secular and the religious and their relationship to the nation state. The notion that there is no singular secularism, but rather a plurality of secularisms, and of ‘religion’ as an invention of European modernity and colonial interests are two of many emerging efforts to reconceptualise the meanings of religion and the secular and the entangled relationship between them. standing...

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Subjects

  • Part Time
  • International
  • Conflict
  • Politics
  • IT
  • Global
  • Public
  • Religion
  • Organisational Change
  • Public Policy
  • Global Politics
  • Journalists
  • Policy makers
  • Social Work
  • Policy formation

Course programme

You are required to take taught modules to the equivalent of 120 credits, and to submit a dissertation of 10,000 words (60 credits). Two terms (30 credits) runs for the whole academic year; one term (15 credits) will run in either the first OR second term. Students may select a combination of 15 and 30 credits. The dissertation topic must be approved in advance by the Programme Convenor and must be on a topic connected with one of your taught modules. Dissertation training will be provided as part of the compulsory core module. Students may take other SOAS modules relevant to their studies that are not listed below but may do so only with the written approval of the Tutor of the relevant module, the Programme Convenor, and the Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

Students may be allowed to study for the MA on a part-time basis:

The part-time MA may be taken over two years, in which case the student takes two 30 credits (or equivalent 15 credits) in the first year, and two 30 credits (or equivalent 15 credits) and the dissertation in the second year.

Alternatively, it can be taken over three years, in which case the student can distribute the 120 credits evenly in each of the three years. The dissertation can be written in year two or three, but it is strongly recommended that this be undertaken in the final year of the degree. It must be submitted in September of the year in which the student registers for it.

Compulsory Modules
  • Dissertation in Religion in Global Politics
  • Religion in Global Politics: Theories and Themes
Taught Option Modules

NOTE: not all modules will be offered every year due to module rotation and alternation.

30 credits
  • Communication, Culture and Politics in the Middle East: Theoretical and Analytical Approaches
  • Death and Religion
  • Eastern and Orthodox Christianity
  • Human Rights and Islamic Law
  • Iran: History, Culture, Politics
  • Israel and the Palestinians
  • Jainism: History, Doctrine and the Contemporary World
  • Modern Trends in Islam
  • Muslim Britain: Perspectives and Realities
  • Non-Violence in Jain Scriptures, Philosophy and Law
  • Religious Practice in Japan: Texts, Rituals and Believers
  • Taiwan's politics and cross-strait relations
  • The Politics of Culture in Contemporary South Asia
  • Zionist Ideology
  • Zoroastrianism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
15 credits
  • Aid and Development
  • African and Asian Cultures in Britain
  • African and Asian Diasporas in the Modern World
  • African Philosophy (PG)
  • Afrophone Philosophies (PG)
  • Anthropology of Globalisation (PG)
  • Borders and Development
  • Buddhism in Tibet
  • Civil society, social movements and the development process
  • Colonial Conquest and Social Change in Southern Africa
  • Colonialism and Christian Missions in Africa: Readings from the Archives
  • Colonialism, Empire and International Law
  • Comparative International Political Thought
  • Conflict, rights and justice
  • Critical Perspectives on Palestine Studies I: History and Politics
  • Critical Perspectives on Palestine Studies II: Culture and Society
  • Diaspora Contexts and Visual Culture
  • East Asian Buddhist Thought
  • Encountering the Other: the Middle East during the Crusading Period
  • Gender and Development
  • Gender in the Middle East
  • Gender, Armed Conflict and International Law
  • Gender, law and the family in the history of modern South Asia
  • Gendering Migration & Diasporas
  • Historical Perspectives on Gender in Africa
  • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East Asia 1 - Making States and Building Nations
  • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East Asia 2 - Non-National Perspectives
  • International Political Communication
  • Iran and the Persianiate world, 1400 to 1800
  • Iran and the Persianiate world, 1800 to 1979
  • Islam and the West: Artistic and Cultural Contacts
  • Islam in South Asia
  • Japanese Modernity I
  • Japanese Modernity II
  • Judaism and Gender
  • Law and Postcolonial Theory
  • Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics and Communications
  • Migration and Policy
  • Nationhood and Competing Identities in Modern China
  • Outsiders in Medieval Middle Eastern Societies: Minorities, Social Outcasts and Foreigners
  • Political Economy of Institutions
  • Queer Politics in Asia, Africa and the Middle East
  • Public Policy and Management: Perspectives and Issues
  • Religion, Nationhood and Ethnicity in Judaism
  • Religions and Development
  • Religions on the move: New Currents and Emerging Trends in Global Religion
  • Representing Conflict: A Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Approach
  • Security
  • The Body and the Making of Colonial Difference in British India
  • The Early Development of Islam: Emerging Identities and Contending View
  • The Great Tradition of Taoism
  • The Holocaust in Theology, Literature and Art
  • The Making of the Contemporary World
  • The Origin of Islam: Sources and Perspectives
  • Transnational Communities and Diasporic Media:Networking, Connectivity, Identity
  • Understanding Communal Violence in India since 1947
  • War to Peace Transitions
  • Violence, justice and the politics of memory

This is the structure for 2018/19 applicants

If you are a current student you can find structure information on Moodle or through your Department.

Programme Specification
  • MA Religion in Global Politics 2017-18 Programme Spec - REL (pdf; 191kb)
  • MA Religion in Global Politics programme details 2017-18 - REL (pdf; 348kb)
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MA Religion in Global Politics

£ 9,225 + VAT