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Spring 2013 Middle East G4004 section 001 POLIT,REL & SECULAR:THRY/MTHDS | |
| Call Number | 12195 |
| Day & Time Location |
W 2:10pm-4:00pm 408 Hamilton Hall |
| Points | 3 |
| Approvals Required | None |
| Instructor | Youssef Belal |
| Type | SEMINAR |
| Course Description | Since the Enlightenment, philosophers and historians have argued that individual freedom and autonomy depend upon the confinement of religious beliefs and practices to the private sphere. On their view, the spread and entrenchment of institutions of modernity would result in the decline of religion as an active moral and political force. These modern ways of thinking assume that there are discrete entities called religion and the secular; where the latter is conceived as the arena of activities such as politics, economics and science in which religion has no place. This seminar is designed to provide an introduction to theories and methods in the study of politics, religion and the secular in the diverse contexts of the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. We will examine the phenomena of religion and secularism and their place in the modern world through close readings of historical, sociological, philosophical and anthropological that address questions of religion and modernity broadly defined. Our aim will be to develop an understanding of the variety of ways in which the relationship between religion and politics is configured and debated and to complicate our understanding of key concepts such as modernity, progress, freedom, minority rights, toleration, community, politics and ethics. This seminar is both interdisciplinary and comparative and will be helpful to students in Islamic, Middle Eastern, African and South Asian studies. |
| Web Site | CourseWorks |
| Department | Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies |
| Enrollment | 11 students as of 11:25PM Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
| Subject | Middle East |
| Number | G4004 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
| Open To | Columbia College, Engineering and Applied Science, General Studies, School of Continuing Education, Graduate School of Arts and Science, School of the Arts, International and Public Affairs, Barnard, Engineering and Applied Science: Graduate |
| Campus | Morningside |
| Note | PRIORITY MA STUDENTS ISLAMIC STUDIES.S ASIA STUDIES MESAAS |
| Section key | 20131MDES4004G001 |
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