Anthropology of Islam 3102-LAIS
Topics include:
- types of islam
- muslim religious practices
- gender issues
- islam and terrorism
- reformers and traditionalists
- postmodernism and islam
- muslims in Europe
- muslims and islam in public debates in Poland and Europe
Type of course
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Students can use basic terminology, and understand social and religious issues in islamic countries.
Assessment criteria
written assessment
Bibliography
Achkoska V., Lifting the Veils from Muslim Women in the Republic of Macedonia Following the Second World War [w:] Gender Relations in South Eastern Europe: Historical Perspectives on Womanhood and Manhood in 19th and 20th Century, pod red. S.Naumovic, M. Jovanovic, Beograd, 2002.
A.Ahmed, Postmodernism and Islam, in: Postmodernism and Islam. Predicament and promise, London and NY 1992, s.1-50.
Akbar A., An Annthropological Excursion into the Muslim World, in: Journey into Islam. The Crisis of Globalisation, Washington 2007, s. 1- 48.
S. F. Alatas, Contemporary Muslim Reviwal, The Case of “Protestant Islam”, “The Muslim World” vol. 97, s. 508-520 (M. Lubańska).
Asad T. On Suicide Bombing, New York, Columbia University Press, 2007.
Danecki J., Podstawowe wiadomości o islamie, t. 1 i 2, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Akademickie Dialog 2002.
Hunt S. (2004), Muslim Women in the Bosnian Crucible [w:] Sex Roles, Vol. 51, No. 5/6.
Kastoryano Riva (2004), Religion and Incorporation: Islam in France and Germany, “International Migration Review”, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Fall, 2004), s. 1234-1255.
McBrien, J. Mukada's struggle: veils and modernity in Kyrgystan, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2009, s. 127-144.
Zulaika J., Douglass W.A. Terror and taboo. The follies, fables, and faces of terrorism, New York, Routlege, 1996.
Raubisko, I. Proper 'traditional' versus dangerous 'new'. Religious Ideology and Idiosyncratic Islamic Practices in Post-Soviet Chechenya.
Tapper R., "Islamic Anthropology" and the "Anthropology of Islam", Anthropological Quarterly, Jul 1995, Vol. 68, Issue 3.
Vertovec S., Diaspora, transnationalism and Islam: Sites of Change and Modes of Research, w: Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and across Europe, Stefano Allievi and Jorgen Nielsen, eds. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003. 3.
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