SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGIONS
SOCIOLOGIA DELLE RELIGIONI
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2021/2022 | 6 |
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| Damiano Bondi |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
After a first part concerning the problem of the definition of religion in social sciences, the course will focus on the relationships between religion and conflicts. We will discuss many theories about the dialectics of religion and political power, referring primarly to our contemporary secular framework, in which resurgences of strong political identities, untraditional spiritual movements and revendications of secular "sacred" values can be founded.
Program
- Defining in social sciences
- Secular State and Christianity
- Hermeneutics of the relations between religion and political power
- Religion-Renaissance in the post-secular age
- Political-religious conflicts as marked by mimetism
Bridging Courses
None.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
Students must demonstrate:
a) Concerning knowledge and understanding: the awareness of the role of religion in building the social bond and its transformations in modern times; to possess intellectual skills for understanding the contemporary relationship between religion and society.
b) Concerning applied knowledge and understanding: the ability to apply acquired knowledge and skills in the discussion about the main topic of the course.
c) Concerning the autonomy in making judegements: the ability to analyze and scrutinize the key-topics of the course, especially about the relationship among religion, individuals, society.
d) Concerning communication skills: the ability to communicate in a clear and coherent way the acquired knowledge as well as to discuss the topics fo the course together with others students.
e) Concerning learnign skills: the ability to evaluate the complexity of religious phenomenon, by pointing out its relevance for individual and social life and its issues as well.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Frontal lessons, cooperative learning
- Attendance
Attendance at 2/3 of the lessons
- Course books
- Oliver Roy, Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways, 2014, selected chapters
- E. W. Boeckenfoerde, The Rise of the State as a Process of Secularization, 1967, selected chapters
- R. Girard, Battling to the End, 2009, selected chapters
- Assessment
The assessment of the student is carried out by an oral examination, considered as the best tool for assessing the level of linguistic competence and the level of learning. The precise knowledge of the subjects of examination, the ability to establish the appropriate connections between the latter and the linguistic property of their exposure are the basic criteria for determining the grade to be given to the student.
Attending students can elaborate a brief essay about the main topics of the course, with the aim at improving the knowledge concerning relevant issues of the course. The essay will discount the number of oral questions. An intermediary examination will be possible, in order to test the reached level of knowledge.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Individual study
- Attendance
Full study of books.
- Course books
- Oliver Roy, Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways, 2014
- E. W. Boeckenfoerde, The Rise of the State as a Process of Secularization, 1967
- R. Girard, Battling to the End, 2009
- Assessment
The assessment of the student is carried out by an oral examination, considered as the best tool for assessing the level of linguistic competence and the level of learning. The precise knowledge of the subjects of examination, the ability to establish the appropriate connections between the latter and the linguistic property of their exposure are the basic criteria for determining the grade to be given to the student.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
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