Unit Guide

General Information

Unit convenor and teaching staff	Unit convenor and teaching staff Banu Senay banu.senay@mq.edu.au Max Harwood max.harwood@mq.edu.au
Credit points	Credit points 10
Prerequisites	Prerequisites 130cp at 1000 level or above
Corequisites	Corequisites
Co-badged status	Co-badged status
Unit description	Unit description Mass communications, technological advances, and the transnational mobility of individuals are powerful forces for cultural change in the contemporary world. For anthropology, the globalisation thesis raises important questions about culture, religion and about the question of how violence and its control has changed in a global world. How are we to understand cultures, religious movements and ideologies, previously understood as bounded entities? How might we theorise the relationship between local and global events, such as conflicts, terrorism and violence? This course will introduce students to the field of anthropology and its sub-disciplines through the discussion of these questions that anthropologists investigate in contemporary and past societies. Some of the issues explored in this course include; religion and worldview, religion in relation to globalisation, power and inequality, violence and conflict, and the formation of new religious movements. We will look at the 'speeding-up' of the world in terms of our experience of time and space, and we will consider the possibility of alternative or parallel modernities.

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Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

ULO1: Critically analyse and debate complex social-political issues.
ULO2: Conduct comparative research on the role of social settings and norms in shaping culture and politics in a globalised context.
ULO3: Actively reflect on debates about anthropology of religion and globalisation.
ULO4: Investigate from an anthropological viewpoint the complex dynamics that affect religious conflicts and violence within global contexts.
ULO5: Improve writing and critical reading skills.

Assessment Tasks

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Changes since First Published

Date	Description
06/03/2020	N/A

Macquarie University

ANTH3021 – Globalisation, Conflict, and Religion

2020 – Session 1, Weekday attendance, North Ryde