School Of Humanities And Communication ArtsPolitics and ReligionWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101665.3
Discipline: SOCIETY AND CULTURE NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
101913 - Theories of Authority
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Successful completion of 60 credit points at Level 1
About this Unit
In 2013, this unit replaced by 101913 - Theories of Authority. In the West, it is assumed that the authorities of the state and of the church are separate. The state looks afters the public or political affairs, while religion takes care of one’s private beliefs and moral values. In practice, however, such a separation has always been precarious. From American politics to the conflicts in the Middle East, the two have remained intermeshed. The unit will trace the idea of the separation of state and church back to its genesis and track its development in modern thought. The aim is to demonstrate the variegated relation between politics and theology by closely examining a wide array of texts in a variety of disciplinary fields, including literature.
Specialisations
| KP1000.1 | Humanities | CONTINUING |
| M1009.1 | History, Politics and Philosophy | CONTINUING |
| M1024.1 | Religion, Anthropology and Philosophy | CONTINUING |
| M1033.1 | History and Political Thought | CONTINUING |
| SM1032.1 | Religion, Anthropology and Philosophy | CONTINUING |
| SM1041.1 | History and Political Thought | CONTINUING |