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Apr 25, 2024
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POLS 4415 - Religion and Global Politics
Examines the impact of religious values, beliefs, and organized faith groups on global politics. Considers how religious laypeople and leaders impact political processes in domestic politics and international relations, as well as how faith communities compete and coexist in the political sphere. Approach will be both contemporary and historical, as well as comparative. Cases might include the impact of religion on global and national law, the role of religious activists in governmental and non-governmental organizations, the relationship between individual and collective religious values and national political outcomes, and the impact of secularism on politics. Focus will be global, although U.S. cases may be considered in comparative perspective.
Requisites: Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to analyze religions embeddedness in political life, and interpret the complex ways religious ideas and institutions both shape and are inflected by political realities.
- Students will be able to articulate why some religious faiths and movements have more political influence than others.
- Students will be able to compare and contrast the impacts of different faith traditions across global political systems.
- Students will be able to conduct independent research on the relationship between religion and politics in global perspective.
- Students will be able to describe and critique multiple theories of religion’s impact on politics in the domestic and international spheres.
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