RLMgB552 Náboženství v transnacionálním prostoru

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Milan Fujda, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Michaela Žáková (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
Timetable
each even Tuesday 12:00–13:40 G23
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce students to a theoretical and empirical discussion on interconnections between contemporary global migration, settling and dwelling, belonging, homemaking, social integration, transnational identities and social relations, and the significance of worship communities, ritual practice and faith in these processes.
Learning outcomes
After passing the course, the students may be able to:
  • understand the economic, political, environmental, and cultural conditions of contemporary global migration;
  • describe transnational social structures and their relations to national borders and policies, and to national and ethnically constructed identities;
  • to analyze and demonstrate the ways of managing cultural resources mediating homes, identities, belonging in processes of transmigration, settling, and integrating;
  • demonstrate the significance and meaning of practical routines, rituals, collectivities (local and virtual), and other social ties in the above-mentioned processes;
  • demonstrate in transnational contexts transformations of concepts of migration, place, home, tradition, and belonging;
  • get insight into the life course of a migrant;
  • analyze the role and significance of religion in various phases of the migration and in the process of building ad maintaining transnational ties, ethnic and diasporic communities, and collective identities.
    • Syllabus
    • Transnationalism as a paradigm: An approach in migration studies - reading
    • Transnationalism as a paradigm: An approach in migration studies - seminar discussion
    • Transculturality, globalisation, and locality - reading
    • ransculturality, globalisation, and locality - seminar discussion
    • Religion and the migrant's live trajectory - reading
    • Religion and the migrant's live trajectory - seminar discussion
    • Transcultural home - reading
    • Transcultural home - seminar discussion
    • Indians in Brno: Cricket - reading
    • Indians in Brno: Cricket - seminar discussion
    • Expatriates in Brno: International Catholic community - reading
    • Expatriates in Brno: International Catholic community - seminar discussion
    Teaching methods
    Lectures, seminar discussion, home-works
    Assessment methods
    To pass the course the student should participate actively in at least 2/3 of the seminar discussions, compose a final essay, and discuss the essay theme at the final colloquium. The essay has all the properties of scientific work and consists of three to five thousand words.
    Language of instruction
    Czech
    Further Comments
    Study Materials
    The course is taught only once.
    • Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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