HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
CONTENTS:
- Introduction: religion and education
Religion and contemporary society
Religion on the Web and in the Web
History of religions (definition, object of study, method, hints of history of the discipline)
- Definition of religion and related notions (worship, sacred, myth, monotheism, polytheism)
- Typology of religions (ethnic, distinguished in ethnological and ethnic-national, and founded)
- Monotheisms Judaism, Christianity, Islamism
- Monism/Pantheism Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism
- Religion and education sciences
- An aside on: religions and bioethics issues. Religions and transplantation.
- Slides and Power Point presentations provided by the teacher
videos provided by the teacher
- Selected parts of the text G. Filoramo, Storia antologica delle religioni, Ed.Morcelliana, Brescia 2019
The course includes the use of lectures and dialogues in mixed mode (in the classroom and through Microsoft Teams platform) carried out with the help of tools prepared by the teacher (Power Point and audiovisual materials appropriately selected) to stimulate discussion and involvement
by students on the topics covered.
Dr. Silvia Siano receives after the lessons or in other times, always with previous agreement by e-mail (silvia.siano@uninsubria.it).