AD317 Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change:
An Arts and Social Sciences Course

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What's this course about?

Religion in context

What will I study?

Religion in context

Although our focus is contemporary religion, we need to view religion in the context of both tradition and modernity to answer questions such as:

• Is religion still relevant?
• How and why does religion keep changing?
• What happens when tradition meets the modern world?

Not only do we examine religion - how it affects and is affected by modern society - but we also engage with a variety of theoretical and methodological issues relating to the study of religion.

You can read an introduction to the main themes and issues on the OpenLearn website. Follow this link to find out more.

Note this course runs for the last time in February 2012.