RLB81 Jerusalem in Religious Confrontation

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2023

The course is not taught in Autumn 2023

Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught online.
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Dalibor Papoušek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Attila Kovács, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. David Zbíral, Ph.D.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Ivona Vrzalová
Supplier department: Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
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
Based on chronologically arranged cases, the course evaluates different approaches to Jerusalem as a religious center of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The course, taught by two teachers, is focused on sources of different quality and religious background. It stresses the seminar arrangement of teaching which supports stylistic, communicative and analytical skills of the students.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students will be able to:
  • characterize main features of the religious history of Jerusalem;
  • use different kinds of sources (archaeological, iconographic and written) in their analyses and interpretations;
  • analyze the meaning construction in relation to the concrete religious locus;
  • apply the comparative approach and typological consideration focused on the process of mythmaking and ideologization.
    • Syllabus
    • Introduction to the course.
    • Jerusalem and its role in the origins of Israel.
    • Utopian temple projects in the Second Temple period.
    • Herodian reconstruction of the temple precincts and the fall of Jerusalem.
    • Christian reinforcing of Jerusalem in the Constantinian period.
    • Jerusalem in the context of Islamic territorial expansion.
    • Symbolism of Jerusalem in the early Muslim period.
    • Jerusalem during the Crusades.
    • Jerusalem towards the close of the Ottoman rule.
    • Jerusalem in the Sionist transformations.
    • Jerusalem as the Islamic center and a part of Arabic Palestine.
    • The importance of Jerusalem for Christian pilgrimage traditions.
    • Jerusalem in visual religious propaganda.
    Literature
      recommended literature
    • Temple and worship in biblical Israel : proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar. Edited by John Day. London: T. & T. Clark, 2007, xviii, 559. ISBN 9780567045713. info
    • LEVINE, Lee I. Jerusalem : portrait of the city in the second Temple period (538 B.C.E.-70 C.E.). 1st ed. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2002, xviii, 486. ISBN 0827607504. info
    • STEMBERGER, Günter. Jews and Christians in the Holy Land : Palestine in the fourth century. Translated by Ruth Tuschling. 1st pub. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2000, xiii, 335. ISBN 0567086992. info
    • GRABAR, Oleg. The shape of the holy : early Islamic Jerusalem. Edited by Mohammad Al-Asad - Abeer Audeh - Saïd Nuseibeh. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996, xiv, 232. ISBN 0691036535. info
    • BOAS, Adrian J. [J]erusalem in the time of the crusades : society, landscape and art in the holy city under Frankish rule. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2001, xv, 272. ISBN 0415488753. info
    • ABOWD, Thomas Philip. Colonial Jerusalem : the spatial construction of identity and difference in a city of myth, 1948-2012. First edition. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2014, xv, 287. ISBN 9780815633488. info
    • MOURAD, Suleiman Ali. Jerusalem : idea and reality. Edited by Tamar Mayer. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2008, xiv, 332. ISBN 9780415421294. info
    Teaching methods
    Lectures, individual reading of secondary literature and writing commentaries on secondary literature, individual presentation in class discussions, writing and defending an essay.
    Assessment methods
    Requirements for the colloquium:
  • six semestral written commentaries on assigned texts;
  • at least three presentations in class discussion;
  • colloquial essay including its defense.
    The final assessment includes: semestral commentaries and presentations in class discussions (100 points in a ratio 60:40 = 50 %, limit 60 points); colloquial essay (100 points = 50 %, limit 60 points).
    • Language of instruction
    English
    Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
    Course is no more offered.
    The course is taught: every week.
    The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Autumn 2015.
    • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2023, recent)
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