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MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2019-2020
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2019-2020
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Unit content:
Topics covered in the unit:
- What is culture? what is religion?
- Methods for studying religion and culture
- Religion in an age of terror
- Prophecy in popular culture
- The Jesus industry: the commercialisation of religion
- Popular messiahs and the American monomyth
- Religion and politics
- Biblical characters and their cultural afterlives
- Religious themes in film
- Pilgrimage and tourism
- Apocalypse in popular culture