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REL-3012: Religion og politikk

Utfyllende informasjon
Contents
The empirical focus of this course will vary according to the lecturer teaching the course.

1. Globalisation, religious and political change, religious pluralism and democracy, and religions and identities in contemporary Latin- and Indigenous American societies.
2. Indigenous movements, Catholicism, charismatic Protestantism, new religious movements.


Extended information
This course on religion and politics has a regional focus on Latin- and Indigenous America. In recent decades, globally, some of the most far reaching religious and political changes have taken place here. Selected case studies and overview articles are aimed at offering a broader picture of empirical issues such as developments within and around indigenous movements, Catholicism, charismatic Protestantism and new religious movements. Local, regional and global perspectives and trends will be discussed. Special attention will be brought to the complex phenomena of globalisation, and local/regional responses to it, as well as religious pluralism and democracy, and religions and identities.

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Reading list

*Beyer, Peter. 1994. “The liberation theological movement in Latin America.” Religion and Globalization, pp. 135–159. London: Sage. (25 pp.)

Beyer, Peter. 2006. Religions in Global Society, [introduction and chapters 1 & 2]. New York: Routledge. (ca. 70 pp.)

*Canessa, Andrew. 2000. “Contesting hybridity: Evangelistas and kataristas in Highland Bolivia.” Journal of Latin American Studies 32, pp. 115–144. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (29 pp.)

*Carpenter, Robert. 2004. “The mainstreaming of alternative spirituality in Brazil.” New Religious Movements in the Twenty-First Century: Legal, Political, and Social Challenges in Global Perspective, pp. 213–228. Ed. by P. C. Lucas & T. Robbins. New York: Routledge. (16 pp.)

*Chesnut, R. A. 2003. “A preferential option for the spirit: The Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Latin America’s new religious economy.” Latin American Politics and Society 45, 1, pp. 55–85. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner. (30 pp.)

Cleary, Edward L. & Timothy J. Steigenga (eds.). 2004. Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change. Chapel Hill, NJ: Rutgers University Press. (254 pp.) [available as e-book on Ebrary]

*Fernández Olmos, Margarite & Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. 2003. “Rastafarianism.” Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santería to Obeah and Espiritismo, pp. 154–170. New York: New York University Press. (16 pp.)

*Frigerio, Alejandro & Hilario Wynarczyk. 2004. “Cult controversies and government control of new religious movements in Argentina, 1985–2002.” Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe (Critical issues in social justice), pp. 453–476. Ed. by J. T. Richardson. New York: Kluwer Academic. (24 pp.)

*Garma Navarro, Carlos. 2004. “The legal situation of religious minorities in Mexico: The current situation, problems, and conflicts.” Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe (Critical issues in social justice), pp. 441–452. Ed. by J. T. Richardson. New York: Kluwer Academic. (12 pp.)

*Jensen, Tina G. 1999. “Discourses on Afro-Brazilian religion: From de-africanization to re-africanization.” Latin American Religion in Motion, pp. 275–294. Ed. by C. Smith & J. Prokopy. New York: Routledge. (20 pp.)

*Lincoln, Bruce. 2004. “‘He, not they, best protected the village’: Religious and other conflicts in twentieth-century Guatemala.” Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity, pp. 149–163. Ed. by J. K. Olupona. New York: Routledge. (15 pp.)

*Lorentzen, Lois Ann. 2001. “Who is an Indian? Religion, globalization and Chiapas.” Religions/Globalizations: Theories and Cases, pp. 84–102. Ed. by D. N. Hopkins, L. A. Lorentzen, E. Mendieta & D. Batstone. Durham: Duke University Press. (19 pp.)

Martin, David. 2002. Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish, pp.71–131 [chapters 3, 4 & 5]. Oxford: Blackwell. (61 pp.)

*Patterson, Eric. 2004a. “Different religions, different politics? Religion and political attitudes in Argentina and Chile.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 43, 3, pp. 345–362. Oxford: Blackwell. (18 pp.)

*Patterson, Eric. 2004b. “Faith in a changing Mexico: The effects of religion on political attitudes, engagement, and participation.” Delaware Review of Latin American Studies 5, 2. Newark, DE: University of Delaware. (23. pp)

*Smilde, David A. 1999. “El clamor por Venezuela: Latin American Evangelicalism as a collective action frame.” Latin American Religion in Motion, pp. 125–145. Ed. by C. Smith & J. Prokopy. New York: Routledge. (21 pp.)

Smith, Brian H. 1998. Religious Politics in Latin America: Pentecostal vs. Catholic. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. (104. pp.)

*Stålsett, Sturla J. 2004. “Liberation theology: Religious resistance to globalisation? The Chiapas uprising as a case.” The Power of Faiths in Global Politics, pp. 143–154. Oslo: Novus Press. (12 pp.)

*Vuola, Elina. 2006. “Seriously harmful for your health? Religion, feminism and sexuality in Latin America.” Liberation Theology and Sexuality: New Radicalism from Latin America, pp. 137–162. Ed. by M. Althaus-Reid. London: Ashgate. (26 pp.)

Text marked with * will be available in a compendium.