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Аnthropology of Religion

2023/2024
Учебный год
ENG
Обучение ведется на английском языке
3
Кредиты
Статус:
Маго-лего
Когда читается:
1 модуль

Преподаватель

Опарин Дмитрий Анатольевич

Опарин Дмитрий Анатольевич

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Questions of religion have been central to anthropology from its beginnings and remain so today when religion (re)emerges as a global force. While early scholarship perceived religious phenomena through the skeptical lens of secular science, recent critiques have brought up anthropology’s own orthodoxies and the need for theoretical and methodological renewal. Every new paradigm took up the challenge to explain religion and its pervasiveness in human culture and society. The anthropology of religion emerged out of such creative tensions as a vibrant field of theoretical inquiry and impressive scholarship. The course is structured around major themes that have shaped the study of religion, exploring topics such as discipline, agency, gender, mediation, the secular and secularism, religious worlds, and the ethnography of religion, aiming for a deep and critical understanding of religion in various cultures and societies.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • The aim of the course is to introduce students into current theoretical debates in the filed of anthropology of religion.
  • The aim of the course is to discuss anthropological approach to the study of religion
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Problems of definition
  • Varieties of Secularism
  • Morality, Ethics and Self-cultivation
  • Religious Temporalities and Regimes of Historicities
  • Religion, Mediation and Aesthetics s of Presence
  • Secular sensibilities in a postsecular age
  • Trading with God(s)
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking presentation of a text at the seminar, organization of discussion in class
  • non-blocking home exam - two short essays
  • non-blocking homework
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2023/2024 1st module
    0.5 * home exam - two short essays + 0.25 * homework + 0.25 * presentation of a text at the seminar, organization of discussion in class

Authors

  • KORMINA ZHANNA VLADIMIROVNA
  • OPARIN DMITRIY ANATOLEVICH
  • TAMBOVTSEVA SVETLANA GEORGIEVNA