Course: Modern Science and Religion

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Course title Modern Science and Religion
Course code KSA/MSR
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
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)
  • Kotherová Silvie, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Bubík Tomáš, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Introduction to the Academic Study of Religions Studying Religions and Religious Objects in Museums Funeral Religiosity and Religious Graveyard Symbols The World Religions Paradigm and the Science of Religions. The Case of Religions in the Czech Republic Religions in the Czech Republic: Religious Memory and National Identity Religion and Politics in the Czech Republic Today Religions in Japan in History and Today. Perspectives from the Science of Religions Religion in laboratory Religion in a field experiment Modern science influencing religion- case of Buddhist meditation practice Studying Non-religion and Atheism

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course is focused on scientific research of religion in the modern humanities. Its content focuses on the presentation of the nature of religious studies as a modern scientific and secular discipline that studies religious phenomena. The course will present specific research case studies that outline the current nature of research, including a theoretical interpration of the subject iand research methods as well.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
5-page essay written in English on a selected topic, its presentation during the last lesson of the course and ability of basic orientation in the lectured topics.
Recommended literature
  • Anna Lutkajtis. (2019). The answer to all your problems?? The overly positive presentation of meditation in media. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 2019, pp. 49-71..
  • Havlíček, Jakub; Lužný, Dušan. (2013). Religion and Politics in the Czech Republic: The Roman Catholic Church and the State. In: International Journal of Social Science Studies (1)2, pp. 190-204,.
  • Jakub Havlíček. (2015). History, Memory, and Religion in the Czech Lands, Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities 3, pp. 97-108..
  • Jakub Havlíček. (2013). Imagining Religion in Japan: Transformations of the Category of ?Religion? in the Japanese Context. In: Kemeneva, S. P. ? Pakhomov, S. V. (ed.) Seventh International Conference on Oriental Studies (Torchinov Readings): Metamorphoses, June 22 - 25, 2011, Part II. St. Petersburg: Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Eastern Philosophy and Cultural Studies. Institute of Oriental Manuscripts. Saint-Petersburg Philosophical Society, pp. 143-150..
  • Jakub Havlíček. (2018). World religions paradigm, legal system and education. The case of the Czech Republic. Journal of Beliefs and Values, Studies in Religion and Education 39(3),.
  • Justin Barrett. (2011). Experiments, in: Michael Stausberg & Steven Engler ed. The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion, Routledge: New York, 2011, pp. 161-177..
  • Tomáš Bubík. (2020). A Graveyard as a Home to Ghosts or a Subject of Scholarly Research? The Czech National Cemetery at Vyšehrad, Changing Societies & Personalities, Vol. 4, No. 2/2020, 136?157..
  • Tomáš Bubík; David Václavík; Atko Remmel. (2020). Nonreligion in the CEE Region: Some Remarks, In: Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Development of Secularity and Non-religion, Bubík, Tomáš, Remmel, Atko-Sulhan, Václavík, David (eds.), Routledge 2020, 320?335..
  • Tomáš Bubík. (2019). Tell a Story of the Nation: Image of Religion and Non-religion in the Czech National Museum, Historická sociologie 2/2019, 11?33..
  • Xygalatas, Dimitrios, Eva Kundtová Klocová, Jakub Cigán, Radek Kundt, Peter Maňo, Silvie Kotherová, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Sebastian Ernst Wallot a Martin Kanovský. (2016). Location, location, location: Effects of cross-religious primes on prosocial behavior. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, Hillsdale: Taylor & Francis Group, 2016, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 304-319..


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Religion Studies (2019) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Religion Studies (2019) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Religion Studies (2019) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Religion Studies (2019) Category: Philosophy, theology - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -