Module manager: Sean McLoughlin
Email: S.McLoughlin@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
| THEO3021 | Muslims in Britain: Transnational Communities and Multicultu |
This module is approved as an Elective
This module explores critical perspectives on the intersections of religion, migration, diaspora, transnationalism, as well as multiculturalism, race ethnicity and British national identity. Topics studied include mosques and the local making of Muslim space; the Rushdie Affair; youth identity and Islamic piety/cultural hybridity; Islamophobia, the “War on Terror” and critical citizenship; British-Muslim linkages to a global Islamic community.
i) To comprehend the unity and diversity in Islam and Muslim societies;
ii) To understand the variety of ways in which religious and ethnic identities are reimagined and reinvented in different social, cultural, economic and political contexts;
iii) To examine a variety of contemporary issues in the study of religion and social theory;
iv) To identify the ways in which dimensions of power and authority operate within and across social groupings;
v) To critically assess the wider significance and implications of the Muslim presence for religion in the public life of Britain;
vi) To reflect upon disciplinary contexts in the emergence and development of a Muslims in Britain literature.
Directed and self-directed reading; independently evaluating a body of work / the work of others; presentation skills; extended and complex forms of writing.
This module draws on sociology and social anthropology to illuminate what happens to religion in contexts of migration, diaspora and trans-nationalism. The key conceptual vocabulary to be explored includes 'religion', 'culture', 'diaspora', '(post)modernity', 'globalisation', 'nation', 'race', 'ethnicity', 'multiculturalism' and 'hybridity'. The main focus of attention is the context of late modern Britain - the legacy of empire, approaches to 'citizenship' and 'multiculturalism', immigration and discrimination legislation, the place of religion in public life. But other European contexts may also be considered mainly for comparative purposes. After an account of Muslim - particularly South Asian - migration to Britain, its contexts and consequences, the emphasis shifts to i) ethnographic accounts of the ways in which Islam has been reconstructed in diasporic 'communities' segmented by ethnicity and sect, gender and generation and ii) Muslim calls for public recognition by the state and wider society (e.g. the Rushdie Affair, Islamophobia). Finally, attention is given to the way that the UK nation-state’s response to local-global crises such as 9/11 has shaped the social exclusion of British Muslims e.g. via counter-terrorism policy.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Seminar | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Private study hours | 280 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 20 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300 | ||
Set reading and own research, note-taking, preparation of seminar presentations, preparation of assignment
Essay plan/draft up to 1000 words.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Essay | 5,000 words | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 29/04/2024
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