RLBcKA004 Indian Religions

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Milan Fujda, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Milan Fujda, Ph.D.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Kristýna Čižmářová
Supplier department: Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 20. 9. 8:00–11:40 B2.24, Fri 18. 10. 8:00–11:40 B2.24, Fri 15. 11. 8:00–11:40 B2.24
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: 22/50, only registered: 0/50
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course offers a basic overview of the history and realia of the religious life of India. The students learn basic terms and issues in the development of Indian societies from the earliest to contemporary periods of time. Analysing the Indian material with the use of the methods of historical anthropology the course also problematizes basic concepts of religious studies.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course the student:
- has basic knowledge of South Asian history;
- understands heterogenity of South Asia as a kultural and socal space, and is able to describe fundamental spiritual lifestyles and life-strategies;
- is able to explain social and ethnic aspects of crucial identity differences;
- is able to describe basic ways of establishing, maintaining and transmitting of traditions (literary and oral);
- explains the concepts of dharma in its various uses and social implications;
- explains the meaning of emic categories for describing organization, forms of community, and identity (jati, sangha, sampraday, dalit, jajmani).
Syllabus
  • Periodisation of Indian history
  • The earlies strata of Indian religious life
  • Early vedic period
  • Early urban period
  • Religion and the urban culture
  • Religion of the post-classical period: South
  • Religion of the post-classical period: North
  • The advent of islam and islam in India
  • Religious life in late "middle ages"
  • The advent of Europeans
  • Religion and contemporary India
Literature
    required literature
  • MICHAELS, Axel. Hinduism : past and present. Translated by Barbara Harshav. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, xvii, 429. ISBN 0691089531. info
  • HONS, Pavel. Kasta, a basta! : pohledy na kastovní systém, tentokrát převážně zdola. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2019, 193 stran. ISBN 9788020029799. info
  • MILTNER, Vladimír. Mahábhárata, aneb, Velký boj. Illustrated by Daniela Olejníková. Vyd. 2., V Argu 1. Praha: Argo, 2011, 323 s. ISBN 9788025703649. info
  • DEÁK, Dušan. Indickí svätci medzi minulosťou a prítomnosťou : hľadanie hinduistov a muslimov v Južnej Ázii. Trnava: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Filozofická fakulta, 2010, x, 241. ISBN 9788081051708. info
    recommended literature
  • CLOTHEY, Fred W. Religion in India : a historical introduction. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2006, xi, 282. ISBN 9780415940245. info
  • ONDRAČKA, Lubomír (ed.). Mé zlaté Bengálsko. Studie k bengálskému náboženství a kultuře věnované Haně Preinhaelterové k jejím sedmdesátinám. Praha: ExOriente a FF UK v Praze, 2008. info
  • Náboženství a společnost v jižní a jihovýchodní Asii : tradice a současnost. Edited by Stanislava Vavroušková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Orientální ústav Akademie věd České republiky, 2005, iv, 355. ISBN 8085425572. info
    not specified
  • ZBAVITEL, Dušan. Hinduismus a jeho cesty k dokonalosti. 1. vyd. Praha: Dharma Gaia, 1993. ISBN 80-901225-5-8. info
  • STRNAD, Jaroslav. Dějiny Indie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Lidové noviny, 2003, 1185 s. ISBN 80-7106-493-9. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, homeworks, essay.
Assessment methods
For exam:
1. Submitting of two short homeworks in an acceptable quality and taking part in the seminar discussion concerning Mahabharata (16% of overall evaluation in the course).
2. Passing the test from the knowledge of Mahabhrata and final test from historical and ethnographic knowledge (32% of overall evaluation).
3. Submitting an essay in acceptable quality (32% of overall evaluation).
4. Oral defence of an essay (16% of overall evaluation).
Passing with colloquium:
1. Submitting of two short homeworks in an acceptable quality and taking part in the seminar discussion concerning Mahabharata (33.3% of overall evaluation in the course).
2. Passing the test from the knowledge of Mahabhrata and final test from historical and ethnographic knowledge (66.6% of overall evaluation).
Language of instruction
Czech
Study support
https://elf.phil.muni.cz/24-25/course/view.php?id=581
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hod./sem. + tutorial 12 hod.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020, Autumn 2022.
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