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You will also consider your own experiences, and debate ideal models for governing religion and religious diversity in today’s world.
Syllabus
Week 1: European Approaches to Governing Religion
Week 2: Asian and Middle Eastern Approaches to Governing Religion
Week 3: Best Practices in Comparative Perspective
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
- Investigate current debates on state-religion relations
- Reflect on different countries and different regimes for governing religious diversity
- Discuss critically the notion of secularism and the idea of a neutral state that governs religion by ‘tolerating’ its presence or indeed by excluding it from the public space
- Assess models in which religion is given a prominent role in the public space and religious diversity is accommodated precisely because religion is seen as an important matter
- Compare the experiences of different countries and identify the ingredients of a religious governance regime that accommodates both believers and non believers and makes room for religious diversity
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