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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