Course: History of Religion

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Course title History of Religion
Course code UHV/BNAB
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Stoklasová Hana, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Bible, Judaism and Christianity - two monotheistic religions. Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire. Christianity - ideology at the end of antiquity. The birth of Islam, Europe and Islam in the Middle Ages. Christianity in medieval Europe. The clash of Christianity and Islam - the Crusades (self-study). Attempts to reform the Christian Church - Hussites, Reformation, Counter-Reformation. Rationalization of faith during the Enlightenment, the rise of secularization. The Catholic Church in the 19th century, political activation. The Church during the World Wars, Vatican II. Persecution of churches under communist totalitarianism. Excursion (required).

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
  • Contact teaching - 24 hours per semester
  • Participation in an excursion - 6 hours per semester
  • Independent critical reading - 40 hours per semester
  • Preparation for a credit (assessment) - 50 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the lectures is to increase students' orientation in the issue of religiosity, religious expressions of people in the past and their socio-cultural context. The history of religion will present three main religious movements - Christianity, Judaism, Islam. The main attention will be focused on Christianity, but Judaism and Islam will also be mentioned, specifically their origin, development and influence on European thought, their mutual interaction. Students should also gain a basic overview of the development of the Catholic and Evangelical Churches in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Students should gain a basic overview and orientation in the development of the three major world religions - Judaism, Christianity, Islam. They should be able to formulate the basic developmental tendencies of Christianity from late antiquity to the present, and outline the mutual interaction of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the environment of Western civilization.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Home assignment evaluation, Work-related product analysis, Discussion

The condition for obtaining the credit is participation in lectures, participation in excursion, reading the recommended literature, discussion on literature and group colloquium.
Recommended literature
  • ADAM, A. Liturgika: křesťanská bohoslužba a její vývoj. Praha, 2001.
  • ARMSTRONGOVÁ, K. Dějiny Boha. Praha, 1996.
  • BEČKA, J. - MENDEL, M. Islám a české země. Praha, 1998.
  • BEINERT, W. Malé dějiny křesťanského myšlení. Kostelní Vydří, 2012.
  • BRUMLÍK, M. Judaismus. Praha, 2012.
  • FASORA, L. ? HANUŠ, J. ? MALÍŘ, J. (eds.). Sekularizace českých zemí v letech 1848-1914. Brno, 2007.
  • FRANZEN, A. Malé dějiny církve. Kostelní Vydří, 2006.
  • HAZLETT, I. Rané křesťanství. Počátky a vývoj církve do roku 600. Brno, 2009.
  • JEDIN, H. Malé dějiny koncilů.. Praha, 1990.
  • KADLEC, J. Církevní dějiny Díl 1-3.. Praha, 1974.
  • KÜNG, H. Židovství. Brno, 2016.
  • MAREK, P. Teorie a praxe politického katolicismu 1870-2007. Brno, 2008.
  • McLEOD H. Náboženství a lidé západní Evropy (1789-1989). Brno, 2007.
  • MIKULEC, J. et al. Církev a společnost raného novověku v Čechách a na Moravě. Praha, 2013.
  • PELIKAN, J. Komu patří Bible?. Praha, 2009.
  • SCHUBERT, K. Židovské náboženství v proměnách věků. Praha, 1999.


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