FI:V018 Topics in Religionistics

V018 Topics in Religionistics

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 1996

Extent and Intensity

0/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination), z (credit).

Teacher(s)

prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Ing. Miloslav Dokulil, DrSc.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Syllabus

On the basis of the initial lectures (but also without having passed through them) it has been intended here - partly in workshop form - to deepen the knowledge in this sphere, and that through the relevant texts.
The Old Testamental tradition will be illustrated by the starting chapters of the Book of Genesis and the Book of Job, Christianity will be characterized by the final chapters of Matthew and Mark, and the Letters of St. Paul (Romans, Jews).
The critical heritage of Hume (and Mill) and Masaryk's relation to religion (after Čapek's "Discussions with TGM") will be considered.
The Orient is to be introduced by passages from the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, and we shall try to somewhat understand the unknown world of tao and zen.
A choice of texts (Kierkegaard, Russell, Moody etc.) is to serve as a stimulus for considerations on the impact of rationality in religion.

Language of instruction

Czech

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 1997, Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2002.