RLB14 New Age

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024

The course is not taught in Spring 2024

Extent and Intensity
1/1. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. David Václavík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. David Zbíral, Ph.D.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Matouš Vencálek
Supplier department: Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
RLAB37 New Religious Movements || RLKAB37 New Religious Movements || RLB37 New Religious Movements
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
there are 9 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Main objectives can be summarized as follows: to analyze the genesis of "New Age phenomenon", to understand specifics of social structure of this phenomenon, to delimitate the basic terms, symbols etc., to understand basic text of thinkers connected with New Age (Capra, Grof, Ferguson)
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to the course
  • 2. Spiritual turn in 19th century
  • 3. Counterculture and "spiritual" revolution in 60's of 20th century
  • 4. Basic intention of New Age conception
  • 5. Turning point of F. Capra
  • 6. Aquarian conspiracy of M. Ferguson
  • 7. Holistic approach
  • 8. Structure of New Age
  • 9. Contemporary transformation
  • 10. Social structure of New Age
  • 11. Critical reflexion of conception of New Age
  • Final summary
Literature
  • CAPRA, Fritjof. Bod obratu :věda, společnost a nová kultura. Online. Translated by Miroslav Štýs. Vyd. 1. Praha: DharmaGaia, 2002. 514 s. ISBN 80-85905-42-6. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • BRUCE, Steve. Religion in the modern world : from cathedrals to cults. Online. Oxford, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1996. vi, 256 s. ISBN 0-19-878152-0. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • HEELAS, Paul. The new age movement :the celebration of the self an the sacralization of modernity. Online. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. ix, 266 s. ISBN 0-631-19332-4. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • YORK, Michael. The emerging network :a sociology of the New Age and neo-pagan movements. Online. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publ., 1995. xvii, 372. ISBN 0-8476-8001-0. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
  • CAPRA, Fritjof. Tao fyziky :bestseller, ktorý zbližuje orientálnu filozofiu a západnú vedu v humanistickom pohľade na vesmír. Online. Translated by Anna Rácová. Vyd. 1. Bratislava: Gardenia Publishers, 1992. 254 s. ISBN 80-85662-00-0. [citováno 2024-04-24] info
Assessment methods
Colloquium. Final project
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Course is no more offered.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Zápis mimo religionistiku je podmíněn souhlasem vyučujícího.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Spring 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2016.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2024, recent)
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