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Introduction of concepts: religion, ethnicity, nationalism.
9/5
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Syllabus
Evaluation Criteria
Class Regulations
Required Readings
Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, pp. 5-7
Gellner, Ernest. 2006. Nations and Nationalism, pp.1-7.
Additional
Chandra, Kanchan. 2006. "What is ethnic identity and does it matter?" Annual Review of Political Science 9: 397-424.
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- Introduction of syllabus and regulations
- Lecture: Introduction of concepts
- Students choose on which week they would like to do their weekly presentations.
- No Homework
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2
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Deeper into Ethnicity and Nationalism
9/12
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Required Readings
Brubaker, Rogers. 2004. “’Civic’ and ‘ethnic’ nationalism”, in Ethnicity without Groups. Harvard: Harvard University Press. Chapter 6, pp. 132-146
Hutchinson, John and Anthony D. Smith (eds.). 1994. Nationalism. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, Introduction, pp. 3-5
Additional
Fearon, James, and David D. Laitin, 2000, "Ordinary language and external validity: Specifying concepts in the study of ethnicity."
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- Lecture: the congruence of ethnicity and nationalism
- Presentation of the readings (for one or two students who chose to do the topic)
- Other activities: games, simulation, debates.
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3
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Primordialism and Constructivism
9/19
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Required Readings
Maxwell, A. (2020) Primordialism for Scholars Who Ought to Know Better: Anthony D. Smith’s Critique of Modernization Theory. Nationalities Papers, 48(5): 826-842.
Bayar, Murat. (2009) "Reconsidering primordialism: an alternative approach to the study of ethnicity." Ethnic and racial studies 32.9: 1639-1657.
Additional
Wang, Chia-Chou (2018) Primordialism, Instrumentalism, Constructivism: Factors Influencing Taiwanese People’s Regime Acceptance of Mainland China’s Government, Journal of Contemporary China, 27:109, 137-150
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- Lecture: ethnicity: is it a primordial or a constructed identity?
- Presentation of the readings (for one or two students who chose to do the topic)
- Other activities: games, simulation, debates.
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4
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Ethnic and Communal Violence
9/26
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Required Readings
Brubaker, Rogers and David D. Laitin. 1998. "Ethnic and Nationalist Violence." Annual Review of Sociology 24:423-52
Additional
Horowitz, Donald. 1985. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. 21-54
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- Lecture: how ethnicity leads to violence
- Presentation of the readings (for one or two students who chose to do the topic)
- Other activities: games, simulation, debates.
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5
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Religious Nationalism
10/3
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Required Readings
Juergensmeyer, Mark. (2010) "The global rise of religious nationalism." Australian Journal of International Affairs 64.3: 262-273.
Grzymala-Busse, Anna. (2019). Religious nationalism and religious influence. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
Additional
Brubaker, Rogers. (2012). Religion and nationalism: Four approaches. Nations and nationalism, 18(1), 2-20.
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- Lecture: introduction on how religion can evoke nationalist sentiments
- Presentation of the readings (for one or two students who chose to do the topic)
- Other activities: games, simulation, debates.
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6
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Double Ten Hol.
NO CLASS
10/10
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NO CLASS
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Students start writing their essays.
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7
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Religious Nationalism and Fundamentalism
10/17
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Required Readings
Emerson, Michael O., and David Hartman. (2006) "The rise of religious fundamentalism." Annual review of Sociology (2006): 127-144.
Friedland, Roger. "Religious nationalism and the problem of collective representation." Annual Review of Sociology (2001): 125-152.
Additional
Juergensmeyer, Mark (1993) Why religious nationalists are not fundamentalists, Religion, 23:1, 85-92
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- Lecture: the similarities and differences between religious nationalism and fundamentalism
- Presentation of the readings (for one or two students who chose to do the topic)
- Other activities: games, simulation, debates.
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8
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Religion, Nationalism and Ethnicity
10/24
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Required Readings
Mitchell, Claire (2006). The Religious Content of Ethnic Identities. Sociology, 40(6), 1135–1152
Gorski, Philip S., and Gülay Türkmen-Dervişoğlu. "Religion, nationalism, and violence: An integrated approach." Annual Review of Sociology 39 (2013): 193-210.
Additional
Brubaker, Rogers. (2015), "Religious dimensions of political conflict and violence." Sociological Theory 33.1: 1-19.
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- Lecture: how ethnicity and religion reinforce nationalism.
- Presentation of the readings (for one or two students who chose to do the topic)
- Other activities: games, simulation, debates
- Students submit their Mid-Term Essay (1,000 words)
Essays are based on at least two theories that they have learnt in the class, and a relevant case study. The usage of other additional theories is encouraged.
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9
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Ethnoreligious conflict and religious nationalism in Indonesia
10/31
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Required Readings
Menchik, J. (2014). Productive intolerance: Godly nationalism in Indonesia. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 56(3), 591–621
Simandjuntak, Deasy (2021) "Disciplining the Accepted and Amputating the Deviants: Religious Nationalism and Segregated Citizenship in Indonesia." Asian Journal of Law and Society 8.1: 88-107
Additional
Aspinall, Edward (2008) Ethnic and religious violence in Indonesia: a review essay, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 62(4): 558-572
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- Lecture: how Islamic nationalism is connected to electoral politics in Indonesia
- Presentation of the readings (for one or two students who chose to do the topic)
- Other activities: games, simulation, debates
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10
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Nationalism and Authoritarianism: Comparing Iran and Turkey
11/7
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Required Readings
Marashi, Afshin. "Paradigms of Iranian Nationalism: History, Theory, and Historiography." Rethinking Iranian nationalism and modernity. University of Texas Press, 2021. 3-24.
Skocpol, Theda. "Rentier state and Shi'a Islam in the Iranian revolution." Theory and society 11.3 (1982): 265-283.
Findley, Carter Vaughn. "Turkey, Islam, nationalism, and modernity." Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity. Yale University Press, 2010.
Additional
Matin-Asgari, Afshin. "The Berlin circle: Iranian nationalism meets German countermodernity." Rethinking Iranian nationalism and modernity. University of Texas Press, 2021. 49-66.
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- Lecture: the similarities and differences of modernity and religious nationalism in Iran and Turkey
- Presentation of the readings (for one or two students who chose to do the topic)
- Other activities: games, simulation, debates
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11
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FILM WEEK
11/14
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We are watching Argo (2012) Director: Ben Affleck.
One of the most high-profile film in 2012, Argo tells the story of six U.S. State Department employees who managed to escape the 1979 siege at the American embassy in Tehran (which resulted in the 444-day hostage saga), but who were still trapped in Iran.
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Watch Film
Discussion
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12
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Ethnoreligious and religious nationalism in Myanmar and Thailand, with a comparison of how religions are practiced in Chinese societies.
11/21
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Required Readings
Kyaw, Nyi Nyi. "The role of myth in anti-muslim buddhist nationalism in Myanmar." Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, 2020. 197-226.
Tonsakulrungruang, Khemthong. "The Revival of Buddhist Nationalism in Thailand and Its Adverse Impact on Religious Freedom." Asian Journal of Law and Society 8.1 (2021): 72-87.
Kuo, Cheng-tian. "Religion, state, and religious nationalism in Chinese societies." Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies, edited by Cheng-tian Kuo. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2018). Ch.1
Additional
Chowdhury, Arnab Roy (2020) “An ‘un-imagined community’: the entangled genealogy of an exclusivist nationalism in Myanmar and the Rohingya refugee crisis”, Social Identities 26:5, 590-607
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- Lecture: Comparing Buddhist nationalism in Myanmar and Thailand
- Presentation of the readings (for one or two students who chose to do the topic)
- Other activities: games, simulation, debates
- Final Presentation batch 1
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13
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Comparative Religious Nationalism in India and Israel
11/28
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Required Readings
Van der Veer, P. (2021). Minority Rights and Hindu Nationalism in India. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 8(1), 44-55
Goldstein, W. S. (2025). Israel/Palestine: Towards a one-state solution. Critical Research on Religion, 13(1), 3-16.
Additional
Chacko, Priya. (2019). Marketizing Hindutva: The state, society, and markets in Hindu nationalism. Modern Asian Studies, 53(2), 377-410
Abiri, Gilad. (2021). Intimate Rivals: The Freedom of Religious Nationalism. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 8(1), 19-43
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- Lecture: comparing religious and nationalism in India and Israel: ethnicity, religion and territoriality
- Presentation of the readings (for one or two students who chose to do the topic)
- Other activities: games, simulation, debates
- Final Presentations batch 2
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14
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Innovative Learning Method Week: Study Visits to Religious Organizations
12/4
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Visits to:
The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT), The Taipei Grand Mosque, and Tzu-Chi Foundation
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- Meet with religious leaders/activists
- Discuss the interplay between “religion” and “nationalism”, and conflict
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15
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Bonus topic:
Christian Nationalism in the US
The complex relations between ethnicity, religion and nationalism
12/5
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Required
Smith, Anthony D. "Culture, community and territory: the politics of ethnicity and nationalism." International Affairs 72.3 (1996): 445-458.
Juergensmeyer, Mark. "Religious nationalism in a global world." Religions 10.2 (2019): 97.
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- Lecture: concluding the course: is religious nationalism the most lethal kind of nationalism?
- Discussion: US Christian nationalism
- Presentation (for one or two students who chose to do the topic)
- Other activities: games, simulation, debates
- Final Presentations batch 3
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16
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Final Presentation Week
12/19
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Student Final Presentations
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Final Presentations batch 4
FINAL PAPER DEADLINE is on 12/22
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