OVc010 Religious Studies

Faculty of Education
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/0/1.3. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Slavomír Lesňák, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Jemelka, Dr.
Department of Civics – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of Civics – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to understand of the Religious studies. This subject intends to deal with not only contemporary essential world religions, but also all fideistic lines of human thought that are religious in principle, even though they are usually not seen as such.
Learning outcomes
The student will be able to: -identify the common elements of world religions -describe world religions -identify the effects of prehistoric and ancient religious thinking at present
Syllabus
  • Issues: 1. Three function of religious ideas 2. Contemporary status and character of religion - invation to the search for the roots 3. Myth and its continuation in religion 4. Orienthal lines of thought - Confucianism, Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism 5. Ancient religions in the early cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia 6. Judaism 7. Islam 8. Christianity and its contemporary forms - Orthotoxy, Catolicism, Protestantism 9. Contemporary (quasi) christian and postmodernist religious movements 10.Assesment of the role of the religion un history, in the present times and in the future
Literature
    required literature
  • ELIADE, Mircea. Dějiny náboženského myšlení. Translated by Jiří Hoblík. Druhé, opravené vydání. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2008, 551 stran. ISBN 9788072982820. info
  • ELIADE, Mircea. Dějiny náboženského myšlení. Translated by Milan Lyčka - Jiří Našinec - Filip Karfík. První vydání. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1997, 343 stran. ISBN 8086005534. info
  • ELIADE, Mircea. Dějiny náboženského myšlení. 1. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1997, 343 s. ISBN 80-86005-53-4. info
  • ELIADE, Mircea. Dějiny náboženského myšlení. Translated by Kateřina Dejmalová. 1. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 1996, 463 s. ISBN 80-86005-19-4. info
Teaching methods
Lecture
Assessment methods
Oral exam; written test; fruitfulness: 75 %.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 15 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2023, recent)
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