FF:RLBcB210 Christian Mission - Course Information
RLBcB210 Christian Mission
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2021
The course is not taught in Spring 2021
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Jana Valtrová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Jana Valtrová, 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 - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ( RLA06 Christianity I || RLKA06 Christianity I || RLBcA006 Christianity I || RLBcKA006 Christianity I ) && ( RLA07 Christianity II || RLKA07 Christianity II || RLBcA007 Christianity II || RLBcKA007 Christianity II ) && ! RLB210 Christian Mission
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those 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, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/50 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Study of Religions (programme FF, B-RL_) (4)
- Course objectives
- The course brings an introduction to the study of Christian missions in the world during the Middle Ages and Early Modern era. Besides important periods of missions, especially in Asia, the course brings an overview of issues connected to missions. Attention is paid to social and cultural aspects of missions, such as language barrier, social hierarchy and mission, mission and politics.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of this course, students should be able to:
- understand the complex character of missions in their historical, social and political context;
- to reflect social and cultural aspects of missions both in Europe as well as in cultures where evangelization takes place;
- to understand and apply terminology connected with missions;
- to use missionary reports as sources for research in religious studies. - Syllabus
- 0. introductory lecture, the pespectives of the study of Christian missions.
- 1. Medieval missions - methods and achievemnts.
- 2. Medieval missions to Asia.
- 3. Between mission and martyrdom - mission in confrontation with Islam.
- 4. The conquest of America - the problem of "the Other".
- 5. Christian missions in India - Portuguese missions and Indian Christians.
- 6. Christian missions in India - Dalit movements.
- 7. Christian Missions in China.
- 8. Christian missions in Tibet and Ladakh.
- 9. Katolické misie ve 20. století - cíle a výzvy.
- 10. Contemporary issues of world missions / inculturation, acculturation, national churches.
- 11. Final test.
- Detailed sylabus is available in Study materials of the course.
- Literature
- required literature
- LIŠČÁK, Vladimír. Františkánské misie v Číně : (13.-18. století). Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2015, 475 stran. ISBN 9788020024633. info
- GILLMAN, Ian and Hans-Joachim KLIMKEIT. Christians in Asia before 1500. London: Routledge, 2008, xiv, 391. ISBN 0700710221. info
- recommended literature
- VALTROVÁ, Jana. Středověká setkání s "jinými". Modloslužebníci, židé, saracéni a heretici v misionářských zprávách o Asii (Medieval Encounters with the Other. Idolatres, Jews, Saracens and Heretics in Missionary Reports about Asia). 1. vyd. Praha: Argo, 2011, 209 pp. Každodenní život 47. ISBN 978-80-257-0399-1. info
- ROBERT, Dana Lee. Christian mission : how Christianity became a world religion. 1st pub. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, xi, 214. ISBN 9780631236207. info
- ŽUPANOV, Ines. Disputed mission : Jesuit experiments and Brahmanical knowledge in seventeenth-century India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001, xiii, 277. ISBN 0195658825. info
- Questions of cultural identity. Edited by Stuart Hall - Paul Du Gay. 1st pub. London: SAGE Publications, 1996, viii, 198. ISBN 0-8039-7882-0. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, reading, class discussions, test.
- Assessment methods
- Requirements for colloquium:
(a) short presentation on selected topic (20%)
(b) test at the end of the course, 60% of correct answers (80%) - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Zápis mimo religionistiku je podmíněn souhlasem vyučující.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2021, recent)
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