Prosjektbeskrivelse med litteraturportefølje:

Selvvalgt pensum ca 700 sider (godkjennes av veileder)

Metode og mteriale

Obligatorisk pensum:

Kraft, Siv Ellen og Natvig, Richard (red.): Metode i religionsvitenskap, Oslo;: Pax Forlag 2006 (275 sider)

Grønmo, Sigmund: Samfunnsvitenskpelige metoder. Bergen, Fagbokforlaget 2004, s. 1-266 og 355-437 (totalt 348 sider)

Valgfritt pensum: ca 200 sider i tilknytning til planlagt masteroppgave

Forslag til valgpensum

Hellig sted
J. Scott og P. Simpson.Houslye (eds.), Sacred Places and Profane Spaces: Essays in the Geographics of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Contributions to the study of religion, 30; New York: Greenwood, 1991) 200 sider

D. L. Carmichael (ed.), Sacred Sites, Sacred Space (One World Archaeology, 23; London: Routledge, 1994) 300 sider

Knott, K, "Issues in the study of religions and locality", Method and Theory in the study of Religions 10 (1998) 279-290.

Knott, K., "Community and locality in the study of religions", i T. Jensen & M. Rothstein (eds.), Secular theories on religion: Current perspectives (Copenhagen:Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000)

http://www.religion.ucsb.edu/ - find: CENTER FOR THE ANALYSIS OF SACRED SPACE

Mikaelson, L. (ed.), Religionsbyen Bergen (Bergen, Eide, 2000) introduksjon

Jerusalem
King, P. J., "Jerusalem", Anchor Bible Dictionary 3 (1992) 7467- 766 (20 sider)

Greenspoon, L.J., and Simkins, R.A., (eds.), ''A land flowing of milk and honey'': visions of Israel from biblical to modern times (Omaha: Creighton University Press), f. eks., M.R. Huie-Jolly, "Another Jerusalem: Orientation to the Holy Land in a dispersed cosmos", ss. 1-23, K.W. Whitelam, "Constructing Jerusalem", ss. 105-126 (44 ss)

Friedland, R., and Hecht, R., To Rule Jerusalem (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies; New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996) 554 sider

Asali, K.J., (ed.), Jerusalem in history: 3,000 B.C. to the present day (London: Kegan Paul International, 1997, Rev. ed.) 310 ss

Idinopulos, T.A., Jerusalem: A history of the holiest city as seen through the struggles of Jews, Christians, and Muslims (Chiagago: Ivan R. Dee, 1994) 340 ss.

Romann, M. and Weingrod, A., Living Together Separately: Arabs and Jews in Contemporary Jerusalem (Princeton studies on the Near East; Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991) 258 sider

Cheshin, A., Hutman, B., Melamed, A., Separate and Unequal: The inside story of Israeli rule in East Jerusalem (Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1999) 275 sider

Religion og politikk

M. Juergensmeyer, "Zion Betrayed", i Terror in the Mind of God. The Global Rise of Religious Violence (Berkley: University of California Press, 2001) 44-59 (15 s.)

J. Neusner, "Judaism", in J. Neusner (ed.), God''s rule: The politics of world religions (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003) 11-36 (25 sider)

Cohen, A. & Susser, B., Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity: The Secular-Religious Impasse (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) (167 s.)

Mittleman, A.L., The Scepter Shall not Depart from Judah: Perspectives on the Persistence of the Political in Judaism (Religion, politics, and society in the new millennium; Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2000) (184 s.)

Sharansky, I., Ambiguity, Coping, and Governance: Israeli Experiences in Politics, Religion, and Policymaking (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999) (203 s.)

Link til ressursider:
http://www.palestina.no
Jerusalem issues: http://www.place4peace.com/
http://www.palestina.no
FAFO: http://www.people-to-people.org/about/about.html

India/ Jerusalem
Friedland, R., "The Bodies of Nations: A Comparative Study of Religious Violence in Jerusalem and Ayodhya,"