FF:RLA12 History of Religious Studies - Course Information

RLA12 History of the Study of Religions

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 4 credit(s) (plus 1 credit for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Iva Doležalová (lecturer)
PhDr. Eleonóra Hamar, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Dušan Lužný, Dr. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. David Václavík, Ph.D.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Lucie Čelková

Timetable

Wed 8:20–9:55 B11

Prerequisites (in Czech)

RLA01 Introduction to Religion

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 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Study of Religions (programme FF, B-HS)
• Study of Religions (programme FF, B-PH) (2)

Course objectives

This course introduces undergraduate students into the history of the study of religions.
At the end of the course students should be able to:
- understand and recall the study of religion as a discipline grounded on its own intellectual base and with its academic autonomy;
- describe the main traditions of this discipline, as they developed from the 19th century untill recent times;
- understand particular methodologiacal approaches rised during the history of the study of religions; delineate major differences between academic study of religions and thelogy;
- understand and interpret discussions on the specificity of contemporary theories of religions;
- apply the gained knowledge during own research.

Syllabus

• Introduction
• Genealogy of the study of religion as a scientific discipline
• Search for the origins of religion
• Phenomenology and the study of religions
• Hermenuetics and the study od religions
• History of religions
• Test I.
• Sociology of religions
• Anthropology of religions
• Psychology of religions
• Contemporary perspectives in the study of religions I.
• Contemporary perspectives in the study of religions II.
• Test II.

Literature

• HORYNA, Břetislav and Helena PAVLINCOVÁ. Dějiny religionistiky. Antologie (The History of the Study of Religions. An Anthology). Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2001, 462 pp. ISBN 80-7182-123-3. info
• HORYNA, Břetislav. Úvod do religionistiky. 1. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1994, 131 s. ISBN 80-85241-64-1. info
• PALS, Daniel L. Seven theories of religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, vii, 294. ISBN 0195087259. info
• MCCUTCHEON, Russell T. Manufacturing religion : the discourse on sui generis religion and the politics of nostalgia. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, xiii, 249. ISBN 0195166639. info
• New approaches to the study of religion. Edited by Peter Antes - Armin W. Geertz - R. R. Warne. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004, vi, 559. ISBN 311017698X. info

Teaching methods

Lectures, home readings, short discussions.

Assessment methods

Colloqium:
- written test I (maximum 100, limit 60) (50%)
- written test II (maximum 100, limit 60) (50%)
Exam
- two written tests (maximum 100, limit 60 each ot the tests) (50%)
- oral exam: factographical knowledge, ability of interpreting particular topics within the history of the academic study of religions (50%)

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: Posluchači religionistiky povinně ukončují zkouškou.
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Zápis mimo religionistiku je podmíněn souhlasem vyučujícího.

Listed among pre-requisites of other courses

• RLBcA012 History of the Study of Religions
  RLBcA001 && !RLA12  

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