- Course code: RL5130
- Credits: 10
- Language: English
Study program affiliation:
Religious Worlds of Oslo RL5130
RL5130 Religious Worlds of Oslo focuses on religion as it is expressed locally in the Oslo area and how these diverse local religious practices are informed by local as well as global realities. Through a selection of case studies, the course will focus on urban religion and religious superdiversity. Students of RL5130 will learn to observe religion as lived practice and get training in ethnographic method. The course will use the local surroundings in Oslo actively, moving teaching out of the MF classroom and bringing guests from local religious communities and networks back into the classroom. Theoretically, the course will be inspired by the approaches of Lived Religion, Religion and Spatiality, and Urban Religion.
Organization
The course consists of lectures, seminars, excursions, and individual case studies (fieldwork).
Study requirements
In order to receive a final assessment, the student must:
- take part in an excursion organized by the professor
- present a draft field report (1000-1500 words) from a selected, individual case study and respond to the field reports of co-students in a plenary session
- participate in the in-depth evaluation of the course, if such evaluation is stipulated in the relevant term
When course requirements are not fulfilled, this will count as one examination attempt, unless the student withdraws before the set deadline (1 May/November)
Final assessment/Exam
In order to pass RL5130 the student must submit the revised field report based on the selected case study (3500-4500 words). The field report is assessed with grades (A-F).
Exam dates
- Submission date:
- 27. November 2024
- Submission deadline:
- 12:00
- Final deadline to withdraw from examination:
- 1. November 2024
- Release date for results:
- 18. December 2024
Essay (field report) - Ordinary exam
- Submission date:
- 20. January 2025
- Submission deadline:
- 12:00
- Final deadline to withdraw from examination:
- 5. January 2025
- Release date for results:
- 3. February 2025
Essay (field report) - New/deferred exam N.B. Own rules for access
Learning outcome
Knowledge
The student has:
Skills
The student can:
Overlapping courses
The course has no credit reduction to other courses.
Reading list
Here you can find the reading list for this course.
Part of the literature will be available digitally, while other parts might only be available in paper format. Some of the literature will be available as compendiums, which you can find via the course room in Canvas.
You will automatically get access to literature that is available digitally when you are sitting at MF, otherwise you can get access by using Oria or by using "External access" in the library's list of databases.
Note that it will take some time before link to the reading list is updated. Please make sure that you are looking at the correct semester's reading list.
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