Politics and Religion in the Modern Age

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

By the end of the course students will know the basic kinds of sources for reconstructing the complex interaction between religion and politics over the modern era. They will know how to use the main tools for picking up the drift of the historiographic debate, and thus be able to choose the updating tools best suited to their own skills and purposes. They will be able to illustrate the methods of heuristics, source analysis and historiography as to the relations between politics and religion, bearing in mind the different ways of analysing historical and cultural processes. Working independently and in an orderly fashion, they will have acquired self-criticism and an ability to learn from mingling with others.