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RS3512: SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGIONS (2014-2015)

Last modified: 28 Jun 2018 10:27


Course Overview

This course offers students the opportunity to do fieldwork on topics such as possession, sacred spaces, sectarian identity and syncretism. Students are introduced to designing a project, doing participant observation and interviews, and writing ethnography. By conducting their own projects they put the theoretical and methodological insights to the test of practice.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 3
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Old Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr William Tuladhar-Douglas

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

None.

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course closely analyses the methodologies and theories developed by social anthropologists for studying religion and how those have influenced how we think about religion in the modern day. It particularly focuses on questions of embodiment, ritual, theodicy, magic and witchcraft, sex/gender/sexual orientation, and pilgrimage and material culture, but also offers a chance to explore other related topics through fieldwork.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

1st Attempt: One writing assignment (1,000 words) on a theoretical topic (20%), one writing assignment (1,000 words) 'from the field' (20%), one 30-minute group presentation (10%, using Powerpoint) on the fieldwork project, one 2,500 word essay (50%) as a research report.

Resit: 1 two-hour examination (100%).

Formative Assessment

Formative assessment occurs orally throughout the course based on the students' participation in the seminars, their preparation and contribution to the discussions.

Feedback

The students obtain prompt and detailed feedback on their writing assignments, presentations, and essays.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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