HISTORY OF RELIGIONS

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Professional education
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2020/2021
Year: 
2
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2021/2022
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Seat of the course: 
Varese - Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Credits: 
1
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
12
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (12 hours)
Assessment: 
Voto Finale

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).

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