The unit explores ways in which religious and secular ideas and interests interact and influence each other. It discusses models of secularization (freedom of religion, freedom from religion), its historical contexts, socio-cultural tensions and governments' responses to them. It examines different models implied by the intersection between the religious and the secular and between politics and the state (religious state/religious politics, secular state/secular politics, religious state/secular politics, secular state/religious politics). Finally, the unit also looks at religio-political discourses of in- and ex-clusion underlying domestic and foreign policies of nation-states. -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Tamara Prosic
Prerequisites: ATS1325 and ATS1326 (First-year sequence in International Studies) or<br/>ATS1324 or ATS1873 or permission of the unit coordinator
