FSS:SAN102 Critical Interpretation of Rel - Course Information

SAN102 Critical Interpretation of Religion

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 9 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Irena Kašparová, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Supplier department: Division of Social Anthropology – Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies

Timetable

Thu 12:00–13:30 P24

• Timetable of Seminar Groups:

SAN102/animismus: No timetable has been entered into IS.
SAN102/atheismus: No timetable has been entered into IS.
SAN102/bahai: No timetable has been entered into IS.
SAN102/budhismus: No timetable has been entered into IS.
SAN102/hinduismus: No timetable has been entered into IS.
SAN102/islam: No timetable has been entered into IS.
SAN102/Keltove: No timetable has been entered into IS.
SAN102/konfucianismus: No timetable has been entered into IS.
SAN102/krestanstvi: No timetable has been entered into IS.
SAN102/zidovstvi: No timetable has been entered into IS.

Prerequisites

Passing through the Introduction to Social Anthropology (SAN 101). Elementary knowledge about Judaism, Christianity, Islam and at least one of the religions of the East (Hinduism, Buddhism).

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

One semester course introducing to the selected topics of anthropological perspective on religion. The course is not outline general overview about world religions, rather it focuses on classic topics of anthropological approach to the religion (sacral and profane, myth and ritual, magic and witchcraft) and on discussing means by which are being these topics constructed and lived.

Main objectives can be summarized as follows:
presentation of the main approaches to religion in social anthropology;
to gain ability to apply anthropological perspective on the study of religion;
to understand and analyze religious experience as an experience bounded by specific mode of thinking and knowledge.

Syllabus

• I.
• Religion as an anthropological category, colonial legacy (Clifford Geertz, Talal Assad)
• Perspectivism and the study of religion
• Religious and non-religious explanation of reality
• "Primitive" and "advanced" religions. Written religions
• II.
• Myth, cosmology I. (Bronislaw Malinowski, Mircea Eliade, Ernst Cassirer)
• Myth, cosmology II. (Émile Durkheim, Claude Lévi-Strauss)
• Ritual I. (Marvin Harris, Mary Douglas)
• Ritual II. (Arnold van Gennep, Victor Turner)
• III.
• Pilgrimages (Victor Turner, John Eade)
• Religion and human body
• Continuity and change: tradition, cargo cults
• Diasporas. Religion and globalization
• Religion and politics

Literature

• BOWIE, Fiona. Antropologie náboženství. Translated by Vladimír Petkevič. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2008, 335 s. ISBN 9788073673789. info
• DURKHEIM, Émile. Elementární formy náboženského života :systém totemismu v Austrálii. Vyd. 1. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2002, 491 s. ISBN 80-7298-056-4. info
• DOUGLAS, Mary. Purity and danger :an analysis of the concepts of pollution and taboo. 2nd impr. with corr. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969, viii, 188. ISBN 0-7100-8827-2. info

Teaching methods

Lectures, reading, class discussion

Assessment methods

1) Knowledge of compulsory reading - final written examination. 2) One written essay 3) One class presentation

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.

Listed among pre-requisites of other courses

• SANb1007 Critical Interpretation of Religion
  !SAN102  

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