Refugees, Migrants and Religion (008GRS)
30 credits, Level 6
Spring teaching
Globalisation has rendered religions increasingly visible through their materialisation in urban spaces. This has prompted some to argue we are now in an age of postsecularism. And yet, religion has so far been a much underemphasised aspect of migration, playing a distant second fiddle to issues of race, class and gender.
On this module, you’ll learn how religion is drawn upon as a social and cultural resource and transformed in everyday life in relation to migrant experience. The module introduces you to ways of thinking about how movement and mobility is at the heart of lived understandings of religion:
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What do religious traditions look like when seen through the lens of migration?
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In what ways are they re-configured and re-imagined by migrants?
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How do religious communities, traditions and practices shape and influence migrant experiences?
The module seeks to strike a balance between geographies of religion and the life-worlds of migrants where religious geographies are situated.