RLB258 Speech, Script, Print and Religion

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Milan Fujda, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Dušan Lužný, Dr.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Lucie Čelková
Timetable
Wed 15:00–16:35 J22
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce students to principal issues concerning the influence of the modes of communication and interraction on human thinking and on the forms of religion. The core issue of the course are questions of the difference between orally based and literate thinking and their relation to some issues of modernisation of religious traditions. Lectures are based on the active participation of students and on discussion.
At the end of this course, students should realise crucial influence of the forms of communication on the development of religious traditions and on understanding and religious interpretations of reality. Students should be able to explain the role of modern media (particularly printed media) in the development of modern forms of religiosity. They should thus be prepared for further investigation in the filed and for analysis of the role and impact of newer media (such as television, radio, internet). on contemporary religions. Simultaneously they should be able to reflect on the influence of the forms of communication in the science and the nature of sources scientists in religion work with on their understanding of the subject and to deal with these issues critically in the context of methodology.
Syllabus
  • Organisational meeting.
  • Media and Transformations of Communication and Interraction.
  • Possibilities of Orality.
  • Some Psychodynamic Features of Orality.
  • Possibilities of a "Literate Mind".
  • Writting and Religious Changes.
  • Print: The Silent Revolution.
  • Religion of Printed Book.
  • Social Profiel of Language: Print and Power in Colonial Context.
  • Virtual Communities: Print and New Religious Communities.
  • Mathodological Implications.
  • Final Discussion.
Literature
  • GOODY, Jack. The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 0521339626. info
  • GOODY, Jack. The Interface Between the Written and the Oral. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 0521332681. info
  • ONG, Walter J. Technologizace slova : mluvená a psaná řeč. Edited by Petr A. Bílek, Translated by Petr Fantys. Vyd. české 1. Praha: Karolinum, 2006, 236 s. ISBN 8024611244. info
  • EISENSTEIN, Elizabeth. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe I. London – New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. ISBN 521219671. info
  • THOMPSON, John B. Média a modernita : sociální teorie médií. Translated by Jan Jirák. 1. čes. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2004, 219 s. ISBN 8024606526. info
  • LOHISSE, Jean. Komunikační systémy : socioantropologický pohled. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 2003, 198 s. ISBN 8024603012. info
Assessment methods
Contents of the semester:
Lectures, class discussions.
Requirements for colloquium:
1) Submission of an essay.
2) Active discussion during seminars, or the submission of possition papers.
3) Passing of colloquium in the form of oral discussion.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Zápis mimo religionistiku je podmíněn souhlasem vyučujícího.
Teacher's information
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The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2015.
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