RLB205 Religion and Healing

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lucie Hlavinková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Dušan Lužný, Dr.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Lucie Čelková
Timetable of Seminar Groups
RLB205/P: Wed 8:20–9:55 B32, L. Hlavinková
RLB205/K: Fri 17. 10. 10:00–11:35 zruseno D22, Fri 14. 11. 10:00–11:35 zruseno D22, Fri 12. 12. 10:00–11:35 zruseno D22, L. Hlavinková
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 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Main objective of the lectures is an overview of healing practices relating to a religiosity since prehistory till nowadays. The interference between religiosity and an image of a body, mind and disease. Etiology of illness and the influence of religious traditions on medicine ethics.
Syllabus
  • Introduction
  • Relationship between medicine and religion by D. Amundsen, status of a healer, illness and health in a significant framework
  • Magical-animistic conceptions, symbolism, analogy, shaman
  • Antiquity
  • Islamic medicine
  • Jewish medicine
  • Christianity: Early church, Middle Ages, symbolic thinking, women and healing, medical ethics
  • Protestant traditions
  • Renaissance, Englightenment, 19.century
  • Origin of alternative and complementary therapies, AIDS, social theories
Assessment methods
Lectures
Homework - "Jesus as a healer" - an analyse of this character, its features (1-2 A4)
Final project (5 A4) any relevant topic, consulted with a lecturer Written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Zápis mimo religionistiku je podmíněn souhlasem vyučující.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2010.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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