1. Students should gain a good understanding of the political aspects of religion

2. Students should be able to show how and why theories about  religion have evolved over time

Syllabus will vary from lecture to lecture (see belov), a compendum will be made

1) Theoretical views on religion, and the secularization thesis

Readings

Peter L. Berger, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (Garden City:

Doubleday, 1967- New York: Anchor Press, 1990), 87.

Hansen, mesøy and Kardas (2010): The Borders of Islam: Exploring Samuel Huntingdon's Faultlines, from Al-Andalus to Virtual Ummah (hurst: Colombia university press), introduction

Thomas, S. M., 2010. Forthcoming. Survey of religion and international relations: the world ahead. Foreign Affairs, 89 (6).

Thomas, S. M., 2005. The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Oliver Roy (2010) holy ignorance (Hurst:London)

2) What is political Islam

Oliver Roy, Globalised Islam: The Search For a New Ummah, (London: C. Hurst. Co. Ltd, 2004).

Hansen, mesøy and Kardas (2010): The Borders of Islam: Exploring Samuel Huntingdon's Faultlines, from Al-Andalus to Virtual Ummah-#8221- (hurst: Colombia university press), introduction

Esposito, John, L. and Voll, John Obert, Islam and Democracy, New

York: Oxford University Press, 1996

Esposito, John, L. and Voll, John Obert, Makers of Contemporary

Islam, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001

Bernard Lewis The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (2003)

Thomas Hegghammer (2009) 'Jihadi Salafis or Revolutionaries: On Religion and Politics in the Study of Islamist Militancy', in R Meijer (ed), Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement, (London/New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2009), pp. 244-266.

3) The Muslim Broterhood, early political Islam, and the Iranian revolution

Hansen, mesøy and Kardas (2010): The Borders of Islam: Exploring Samuel Huntingdon's Faultlines, from Al-Andalus to Virtual Ummah (Hurst: Colombia university press), regional introduction, middle east

Hansen - Mesøy (2009): The Muslim brotherhood at the wider horn of Africa, NIBR Report 2009:33.http://www.nibr.no/uploads/publications/06d76b6e0d14594c9a753c487ed50e51.pdf

Leiken. Robert S. Steven Brooke (2007), The Moderate Muslim

Brotherhood. Foreign Affairs. March/April 2007

Vidino, Lorenso (2005), The Muslim Brotherhood-#8217-s conquest of

Europe, Middle East Quarterly 12 (1)

Zollner, Barbara H.E., The Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al- Hudaibi and Ideology, Rutledge Oxon, 2009,2-3

Mitchell P. Richard, The Society of the Muslim Brothers (London-

Oxford University Press, 1969)

4) Iran, Hizbollah, Hamas, Taliban and Shebab

Hansen, mesøy and Kardas (2010): The Borders of Islam: Exploring Samuel Huntingdon's Faultlines, from Al-Andalus to Virtual Ummah- (hurst: Colombia university press), Libanon and Palestine chapters

Jeroen Gunning (2008) Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence, Colombia University Press

Saul Mishal and Avraham Selah (2000) The Palestinian Hamas new York, Colombia university press.

Hansen, mesøy and Kardas (2010): The Borders of Islam: Exploring Samuel Huntingdon's Faultlines, from Al-Andalus to Virtual Ummah (hurst: Colombia university press),Afghanistan and Somalia chapters

Antonio Giustozzi (2010):Decoding the new Taliban, insights from the Afghanistan field (Hurst/CUP)

5) Al Qaeda and affiliates

Giles Kepell, Jean- Pierre Mielli Al Qaeda in Its Own Words (2009), Harward university press

Bruce Hoffman, Osama bin Laden Still Matters Foreign Affairs May/june 2008

Mark Sageman (2008):Leaderless jihad Penysvania University Press

Books include the following:

Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism by Michael W. Doyle

Baylis, John, and Smith, Steve. (eds) The Globalization of World Politics: An

Introduction to International Relations. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Williams, Michael C. The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

A.G. Frank, 'The Development of Underdevelopment,' and 'Economic Dependence, Class Structure, and Underdevelopment Policy,' both in Cockcroft, Frank, and Johnson (ed.), Dependence and Underdevelopment, 1972, pp. 3-45 (on electronic reserve)-

Joel S. Migdal, 'Studying the State,' in Lichbach and Zuckerman (eds.), Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure