1) study of religion as a scientific discipline; study of religion and theology; study of religion and philosophy of religion; the difference between philosophical and historical study of religion; relation of religion studies to other disciplines. 2) religion as a subject of religious research; the concept of 'religion' as an analytical category; terminology of the study of religion as a discipline; basic religious concepts. 3) "understanding" versus "explanation"; key methods of religious studies research; subdisciplines of the study od religions; problems of historical and comparative religions. 4) the importance, task and objective of religious research; reductionism and religion exploration; neutrality in the study of religion; "outsider" and "insider" positions. 5) the difference between clarifying religion and deepening faith; the function of religious beliefs or unbelief in religious studies; ethical and emic approach to religion. 6) creation and establishment of world study of religion (E. Sharpe; M. Stausberg); institutionalization of religious studies in Central and Eastern Europe (T. Bubík, H. Hoffmann). 7) origin, development and current situation of the Czech study religion (O. Pertold; J. Heller; B. Horyna). 8) evolutionary theory of the origin and evolution of religion (E.B. Tylor; J.G. Frazer; J. Lubbock; É. Durkheim); functionalist approaches to the study of religion (B. Malinowski, A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, E. E. Evans-Pritchard); 9) diffusionism; theory of cultural cycles (F. Ratzel, L. Frobenius); School of Historical and Cultural Studies (W. Schmidt, W. Koppers; F. R. Graebner, P. Schebesta). 10) Religion in terms of psychology (W. James; E. Starbuck; JH Leuba); religion in terms of dept psychology (S. Freud; C.G. Jung); religion and mythology from the perspective of C. G. Jung and his pupils; criticism of Jung's analytical psychology (E. From; V. Frankl). 11) religion as the legitimization of power (K. Marx); religion as an instrument of integration (É. Durkheim); Society as Sacred (E. Durheim); modernization as rationalization (M. Weber). 12) symbolic-analytical school (C.G. Jung, K. Kerényi); School of Myth and Ritual (S.H. Hooke, E.O. James). 13) relationship between ritual and magic, relationship between ritual and religion; the relationship of myth and ritual (W. Robertson Smith, J.G. Frazer, J.E. Harrison, S.H. Hooke, and M. Eliade). 14) evolutionist interpretations of ritual (J. Frazer; E. B. Tylor; L. Lévy-Bruhl); sociological interpretations of ritual (É. Durkheim; M. Mauss); Functionalist Ritual Theories (A. R. Radcliffe-Brown; B. Malinowski; R. A. Rappaport). 15) myth and ritual (A. van Gennep, V. Turner, C. Bell, R. Rappaport); transitional rituals (A. van Gennep; V. Turner; B. Lincoln); structural analysis of myth (C. Lévi-Strauss). 16) development of phenomenology of religion (N. Söderblom; G. van der Leeuw, G. Widengren; J. Waardenburg); sacrum as an object of religious studies (R. Otto); reality and sacred (M. Eliade); the difference between historical and phenomenological study of religion (Z. Werblowski). 17) religion as alienation and religion as opium (K. Marx); Marxist religion (D. M. Ugrinovic, Z. Poniatowski); Czech Marxist study of religion (O. Nahodil; J. Loukotka; I. Hodovský). 18) religion and cognitive sciences (T. Lawson; A. Geertz); basic theses of cognitive approach to religion; a brief history of cognitive study of religion; methods used in experimental research of religion (U. Schjoedt). (19) the theory of embodied cognition; religious notions and their transmission (P. Boyer; A. Norenzayan); cognitive and evolutionary ritual theory (H. Whitehouse); religious behavior and prosociality (R. Sosis). 20) the concept of religion as an anthropological category: religious facts, experiences and norms, questions of definition and classification of religion in the context of the history of "Western" culture".
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