| 1 | Dirk Smilde Research Seminar | THMDSRSE10 |
This research seminar addresses the broad theme of Comparative Studies as applied to Judaism in antiquity with special reference to the Dead Sea Scrolls, especially those from the Qumran caves. In recent years the Dead Sea Scrolls from the Qumran caves have moved from being representative of a small marginal sectarian group in Judea in the three centuries before the fall of the Temple in 70 CE to being understood as a major textual resource for the understanding of Judaism in the Levant of the time of Hillel and Jesus. Though there remains a need for the careful description of the origins of each composition, their discovery together in the caves at and near Qumran provides a key starting point for their appreciation; in fact, such location and dating provides a relatively firm and fixed reference point which can be used as the basis for comparative analysis. There remains room for much further work on how their significance should be articulated and how comparative data should be selected and used.
The Research Seminar will have as its backbone a series of lectures by the 2018 Dirk Smilde Professorial Research Fellow, George Brooke. In six lectures between February and May, he will address the topic of Comparative Studies in relation to the Dead Sea Scrolls. His series of lectures will begin on Friday 2nd February 2018 with an inaugural presentation: “A Summer’s Day? With What Shall We Compare the Dead Sea Scrolls?” Five further lectures will engage with the methodologies of comparative studies, especially as those might be applied to the Scrolls, and several other topics as listed in the schedule below.
Those participating in the seminar will take it in turns to engage Comparative Studies from the broad range of their specialist interests. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | prof. dr. M. Popovic | | Docent(en) | prof. dr. M. Popovic | | Onderwijsvorm | seminar | | ECTS | 10 | | Opmerkingen | Study investment: 16 x 2 hrs meetings (32 hrs), preparations for meetings 95 hrs), paper (150 hrs), total 280 hrs.
Inaddition to the introductory lecture on 2nd February 2018 (Lecture 1:'A Summer's Day?'With What Shall We Compare the Dead Sea Scrolls?), the lectures and seminars will take place each Thursday from 16.15 to 18.00 as follows:
February 8
February 15 (Lecture 2: Comparing Methods and Theories)
February 22
March 1
March 8 (Lecture 3: Comparing Contexts)
March 15
March 22
April 5 (Lecture 4: Comparing Texts and their Interpretations)
April 12
April 19
April 26 (Lecture 5: Comparing Rules and Rituals)
May 17
May 24
May 31 (Lecture 6: Comparing the Incomparable)
No meetings on March 29, May 3, May 10. |
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| 2 | Forced Migration | THM-FM5 |
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| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Docent(en) | dr. E.K. Wilson | | Onderwijsvorm | lectures and seminars | | Toetsvorm | opdracht(en), presentatie(s), werkstuk | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | Research master students, have a different course code:THRM-FM5. For these students there will be formulated an extra assignment. |
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| 3 | Gender, Religion and Sexual Nationalism | THM-GRSN5 |
| Gender and sexuality are highly politicized in today’s globalized world. Across the world, we see nation states linking their national identity to a particular position in religion to homosexuality, often strongly opposing LGBTQI rights as in the case of Uganda, Russia and many other countries or, as in the case of the Netherlands, linking their national identity to a championing of gay rights to the extent that it is used to support xenophobic positions. Religious actors and transnational religious networks (e.g. evangelical, Catholic) are very influential in these processes. How can we understand processes such as these? How are these processes related to local understandings of gender and sexuality? These are the kinds of question central to this course. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | dr. B.E. Bartelink | | Docent(en) | | | Onderwijsvorm | group discussion | | Toetsvorm | assignments | | ECTS | 5 |
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| 4 | Generic Academic Skills | THRMGASE5 |
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| 5 | Global Dynamics | THM-GDLC5 |
The course intends to give insight into the processes that are involved in the interaction between local cultural and religious systems and global economic, political and ideological forces like capitalism and colonialism. In contrast to the widespread assumption that indigenous local cultures just give way to overpowering global forces there are many examples of local cultures dealing very creatively with aspects of globalization on their own terms.
We will deal initially with the concepts of society and culture in order to have a firm basis to discuss the dynamics between local and global patterns and cultural change. We will then discuss in some detail the theoretical approaches of Louis Dumont and Marshall Sahlins (perhaps others) in relation to specific cases.
The last part of the course will be devoted to the reflection of more extended cases in relation to the approaches discussed before. Students can select one book from a number of monographs that deal in detail with the topic of the course. Beyond the discussion of cases in article-length contributions this will enable students to get an idea of the complexity and depths of the processes under discussion. At the end of the course, after the last meeting, each student will submit individually a reflection essay (2500 words) critically discussing and contemplating certain aspects of the theoretical discussions in relation to the selected monograph. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | dr. P. Berger | | Docent(en) | dr. P. Berger | | Onderwijsvorm | lectures and seminars | | Toetsvorm | | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | - Workload: sessions 21h, readings 70h (ca. 350 pages), written assignments 6h, presentation(s) 6h, reflection essay (including extra readings and writing) 35h.
- Research master students, have a different course code:THRM-GDLC5. For these students there will be formulated an extra assignment.
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| 6 | Going Retro | THM-GR |
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| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | dr. M. van Dijk | | Docent(en) | dr. S. Travagnindr. M. van Dijk | | Onderwijsvorm | lectures and seminars | | Toetsvorm | final paper, presentation(s) | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | - Student workload: 21 hrs in classes; 8 hours conference; 80 hours practicum; 32 hours self study
- Research master students, have a different course code: THRM-GR. For these students there will be formulated an extra assignment.
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| 7 | Heritage of Death | THM-HOD |
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| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Docent(en) | prof. dr. C. Jedan | | Onderwijsvorm | varied | | Toetsvorm | Assignments including presentations in class (30%) | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | Research master students, have a different course code:THRM-HOD. For these students there will be formulated an extra assignment. |
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| 8 | Historical Research Methods | THMHRME5 |
| ‘Method’ has two standard meanings: the philosophy and rationale of a discipline (as in the scientific method, historical method) and the specific procedures, techniques, and for ancient studies the skills used to study everything from archaeological sites, pottery, coins, and inscriptions to Greek historiography or Hebrew or Arabic poetry. The latter kind of method is usually taught in in conjunction with the specific material in question. This module provides a foundation for graduate study by surveying the whole methodological landscape. It tracks the development of method in the study of antiquity—including Jewish, Christian, and Islamic origins—in both senses: changing questions and perspectives and evolving techniques, especially given the possibilities opened up by the digital age. Two central problems—‘What is History?’ and ‘What does it mean to interpret evidence (e.g., texts)?’—provide unifying threads as we follow the development of idealist, Romantic, positivist, historicist, social-scientific, statistical, social-historical, structuralist, post-modern, deconstructive, rhetorical, and other approaches to the past and its representation. The main goal of the seminar is to foster critical self-awareness about the methods we use in our research, and why: both underlying rationale and relevant procedures. A secondary goal is to furnish advanced students with a basic map of the key thinkers, disciplinary labels, and technical terms they are likely to encounter. In this module students are prepared for their individual projects in the second semester, i.e. the thesis and the internship. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | prof. dr. S.N. Mason | | Docent(en) | prof. dr. S.N. Mason | | Onderwijsvorm | werkgroepen | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | Research master students, have a different course code:THRMHRME5. For these students there will be formulated an extra assignment. |
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| 9 | Introduction to Religious Heritage | THMIRHE5 |
| This course introduces students to the practice and theory of religious and cultural heritage. It begins with the question: what is religious heritage? In a first step towards answering this question, students will engage in a virtual archaeological “dig” of a sector of the city of Groningen. Working in groups, they will traverse a neighborhood and uncover the various types of religious heritage present in specific locations. To help them with their field work, students will engage with key documents from the field of heritage studies. They examine how world heritage organizations, such as the UNESCO have come to define religious heritage as comprising both “tangible”, i.e. physical, and “intangible”, i.e., ritual and cultural forms of heritage. In the second section of this course, students will engage with the literature on “critical heritage studies”. They will then work in teams to come up with criteria for what the critical heritage of religion might entail. Students will have meetings with practitioners of cultural heritage in local government, museums or religious heritage organizations. In a final project, student groups will apply the knowledge gained to trial one of the heritage organizations in the Netherlands and come up with a policy recommendation or a proposal for an exhibit or public outreach campaign. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Docent(en) | prof. dr. T.H. Weir | | Onderwijsvorm | lectures, seminar | | Toetsvorm | essay, presentation(s) | | ECTS | 5 |
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| 10 | Jews, Christians and Others | THMJCOE10 |
| This foundational seminar explores the root belonging-categories of ethnos (notional kin-group) and polis from the classical period through the conquests of Alexander and the Romans. How diverse was this constantly changing world and what criteria permitted or constrained what we might call pluralism: tolerance or even support of difference? How did such tolerated variety manifest itself in areas connected with ‘religion’, such as polis calendars, deities, and holy days, translocal sacrificial cults, philosophical schools, and voluntary associations? What limits did the Hellenistic kingdoms and Roman Empire impose on diversity? Why did Antiochus IV move against Jerusalem, or the Roman senate against the Bacchants? What did Hasmonean expansion mean for Judaea’s neighbours? How did Jews/ Judaeans fare in their homeland under foreign rule and as minorities abroad, before and after Jerusalem’s destruction (70 CE)? How did Christianity relate to polis life and to expatriate Jewish communities, in its first generations and as it gained strength in the third and fourth centuries? Through the period of Christianity’s expansion, what possibilities for pluralism existed among Roman leaders (Constantine, Julian, Theodosius I and II), philosophers (Celsus, Porphyry), Jews, and Christian leaders? |
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| 11 | Material Religion | THMMRE5 |
“Materiality mediates belief … material objects and practices both enable it and enact it.” (Morgan 2010)
What can things and their uses teach us about religion? This course focuses resolutely on religious things - and not merely as “props for a religious way of life” as objects of interest in themselves (Hodder 2012). It challenges the largely Western assumption that belief (understood as an interior assent to certain fundamental propositions) is prior to the objects, spaces, and practices that are created, employed, and adapted by believers. It asks how believers and their things are “entangled” in dialectic relationships of dependency and explores the implications of such entanglement for understanding religion, and religious heritage status in the present.
We will learn together through 1) critical reading of a variety of theoretical accounts of the relationships between humans and things, 2) close study of a series of exemplary religious objects, spaces, and practices in class and in individual research projects; 4) close and reflective reading of exemplary medieval theological texts that interpreted religious objects, gestures and spaces and sought to understand the role of matter in human salvation; 5) field-trip; 6) the preparation of a joint virtual exhibit |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Docent(en) | dr. A.J.M. Irving | | Onderwijsvorm | field trips, lectures, workshops | | Toetsvorm | projectopdracht | | ECTS | 5 | | Entreevoorwaarden | Bachelor's Degree in Theology and Religious Studies, or Humanities (Arts), or Social Sciences. | | Opmerkingen | Research master students, have a different course code:THRMMRE5. For these students there will be formulated an extra assignment |
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| 12 | Migration, Culture and Rel. Identity | THM-MCRI5 |
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| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Docent(en) | prof. dr. M.W. Buitelaar | | Onderwijsvorm | hoor-/werkcollege | | Toetsvorm | final paper | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | Research master students, have a different course code:THRM-MCRI5. For these students there will be formulated an extra assignment. |
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| 13 | Muslims and non-Muslims | THMMNME5 |
| A common explanation for the rise of Islam is that it filled the vacuum left by the decaying Roman and Sasanian empires. But, in addition to allusions to the Byzantines (Rūm), the Qur'ān also knows of the Christological controversies of the 5th century that shaped the Christian groups that, in the 7th century, would come under Arab/Muslim rule. It also mentions various religious officials and structures (monks - rabbis - churches - synagogues - etc.), and comments on distinctions between settled and nomadic lifestyles.Assuming the first core seminar and building upon it, this course explores the rise of Islam in the context of late antiquity and examines the ways in which Islam adopted, challenged, and changed pre-existing political-religious structures and discourses. Topics to be covered include the formative moments in the shaping of the nascent ‘Islamic’ identity, the shift from emperor to caliph (including the significance of his various titles: imam, amir al-mu’minin, etc.), including administrative details (such as taxation), the protection (dhimma) afforded the Peoples of the Book, the nature of asabiyya (group-feeling) in cities, country and desert, the discourse surrounding ‘Arabness’ and tribal identity, the tension between mu’min and muslim. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Docent(en) | C.E. Wilde, PhD. | | Onderwijsvorm | werkgroepen | | Toetsvorm | paper/presentation and/or written examination | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | Research master students, have a different course code:THRMMNME5. For these students there will be formulated an extra assignment. |
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| 14 | Philosophy of Science | THRMPHSS10 |
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| 15 | Politics of Secularism | THM-POSE5 |
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| 16 | Reception and Re-Use of Aut. Texts | THMRRATE5 |
This module explores the reception history of the Bible and other authoritative texts. Major themes include the processes through which ancient stories and concepts were incorporated into scripture, as well as their interpretations in varying historical, political, and sociocultural conditions.
In the introductory sessions we reflect on basic questions regarding reception history. Then we look at the reception and interpretation of texts and traditions in a range of sources, especially in the Bible itself, and in early Jewish literature of the Second Temple period. Using specific examples drawn from themes (e.g. creation, the flood, eschatology) and figures (e.g. Abraham, Joseph) found in these sources, we compare interpretations of authoritative texts in these individual traditions. How have religious or political authorities used these authoritative texts? What challenges arise when a narrative found in one source is re-used in another source, or by another tradition? The sessions conclude with a general hermeneutical reflection on the reception of authoritative texts in ancient times, preparing students for critical engagement with the contemporary use of authoritative texts in religious or political circles. Assessment: Self-study, assignments, presentations, paper. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | prof. dr. J.T.A.G.M. van Ruiten | | Docent(en) | prof. dr. J.T.A.G.M. van Ruiten | | Onderwijsvorm | lectures and seminars | | Toetsvorm | assignments | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | Research master students, have a different course code:THRMRRATE5. For these students there will be formulated an extra assignment. |
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| 17 | Religion & the Politics of Human Rights | THM-RPHR5 |
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| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | M.B. McIvor, PhD. | | Docent(en) | M.B. McIvor, PhD. | | Onderwijsvorm | hoor-/werkcollege | | Toetsvorm | paper, participation | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | Research master students, have a different course code:THRM-RPHR5. For these students there will be formulated an extra assignment. |
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| 18 | Religion, Conflict and Globalization | THM-RCGI10 |
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| 19 | Religion, Gender and Sexuality | THM-RGS5 |
Many conflicts in which religion is involved focus on gender and sexuality. In pushing for emancipation, women and sexual minorities have often provoked resistance on the part of religious actors. At the same time, although less well known, religious actors have been instrumental in aiding the emancipation of women and sexual minorities. So how should we conceptualize the relationship between religion, gender and sexuality? How can this contribute to a better understanding of the ways gender and sexuality become focus points for conflicts involving religion?
This course will focus on learning to recognize and conceptualize the links between religion, gender and sexuality more generally. We will first discuss some of the classic authors on these topics such as de Beauvoir, Foucault and Butler. Then, we will discuss ethnographic research detailing how sexuality and gender are shaped culturally and religiously and the ways this has informed conceptualizations of sexuality and gender. A third theme that will be explicated is the links between religion, gender and embodiment and the political implications of these links.
This course will make use of literature from anthropology, gender studies, critical theory and philosophy. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | dr. K.E. Knibbe | | Docent(en) | | | Onderwijsvorm | seminar | | Toetsvorm | assignments | | ECTS | 5 |
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| 20 | Religion, Violence and Conflict Transf. | THM-RVCT5 |
| This course deals with fundamental questions at the intersection of the discourse and practice of religion, violence and conflict transformation. It will examine how these concepts interrelate and will investigate assumptions that lie behind their use, as well as how they are put into practice. The following elements will be interrogated: the discourse and practice of peacebuilding and conflict transformation; the history and development of religious violence and religious peacebuilding/conflict transformation; religion and reconciliation; transitional justice and religion; religion and conflict; fundamentalism and religious violence; women, religion and peacebuilding; religion, ritual and peacebuilding. The course shall be interdisciplinary, that is using analytical tools from disciplines such as religious studies, sociology, history, theology, anthropology, politics, law, peacebuilding and reconciliation studies etc. Students are invited to participate actively by going beyond describing issues to critically analyzing and interrogating theoretical underpinnings of religion, violence and conflict transformation. Case studies such as South Africa, Israel/Palestine, Zimbabwe, and Northern Ireland inter alia against the backdrop of globalization shall be deployed to facilitate analysis. Various religious traditions including Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and African Religions shall be referred to whenever relevant. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | dr. J. Tarusarira | | Docent(en) | dr. J. Tarusarira | | Onderwijsvorm | varied | | Toetsvorm | final paper | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | 5 EC’s = 140 hours
Sessions: 7 x 2 hrs = 14 hrs
Study of assigned literature:571 à 6pp per hour = 96 hours and 149 à 8 pp per hour (18 hrs) = in total: 118 hours
Research literature for your paper: 200 pp à 6 p. per hour = 33 hours
Assignments: 13 x 2,5 hours = 33
Paper:66 hours
Sessions: 15 x 2 hrs = 30 hrs
Study of assigned literature:571 à 6pp per hour = 96 hours and 149 à 8 pp per hour (18 hrs) = in total: 118 hours
Research literature for your paper: 200 pp à 6 p. per hour = 33 hours
Assignments: 7 x 2,5 hours = 17,5
Paper:66 hours
- The course unit will have the format of a seminar in which the lecturers will supervise discussions of the literature by students on the basis of reaction sheets written in preparation for each session.
- Assessment of this course unit will be based on attendance and active participation in the discussions (Class attendance, participation and Reaction sheets - 20% of the final grade, Presentations - 20% of final grade and a final paper of 4000 words - 60% of final grade.
- Compulsory literature will be announced in the course unit manual.
- Students of the PThU Master’s programme can enrol in this course unit.
- Compulsory attendance in accordance with the Teaching & Examination Regulations applies to this module.
- Research master students, have a different course code: THRM-RVC5. For these students there will be formulated an extra assignment.
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| 21 | Religious States? | THMRSE5 |
| This module takes up the phenomenon of ‘religious nationalism’, ancient and modern. Major themes include the origins of the concept of ‘nation’ (as people? community?) in various religious traditions, as well as their development and interpretations in varying historical, political, and sociocultural conditions. The introductory sessions present a few modern examples of religious nationalisms, for example American exceptionalism, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Burmese Buddhists, the State of Israel, or Assyrian Christian claims to the Plains of Nineveh in Iraq. Then we look at the textual and other sources on which these claims are based. Particular attention will be paid to trends of continuity or change between ancient and modern ‘membership’ requirements (blood? Ideology?), leadership qualifications, and territorial claims. Mindful of the claim that religion ‘thinks global, but acts local, we conclude the course with critical reflection on both nationalist and transnational religious movements (e.g., Zionism, global jihad, Opus Dei/Comunione e Liberazione/Sant Egidio) in the (post-)Westphalian world order, preparing the students to participate in contemporary debates on the role of religion and religious actors in modern (secular) nation states. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Docent(en) | prof. dr. S.N. Mason | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | - Research master students, have a different course code:THRMRSE5. For these students there will be formulated an extra assignment.
- Dit college wordt in het studiejaar 2017-2018 niet aangeboden.
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| 22 | Research Methods | THMRMSE5 |
| The module aims at preparing the students for their individual projects in the second semester i.e. the thesis and the internship, bringing together more practical skills (economic, organisational and managerial aspects of constructing heritage and making it accessible) and the necessary research skills the students need for their projects (such as interview techniques, discourse analysis, digital humanities, hermeneutics, theory of aesthetics, more advanced aspects of cultural studies, historical methods). The idea is that students must be well prepared both theoretically and practically. Typically, the classes have the format of a one- or a half day clinic, which will be focused on a specific topic. |
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| 23 | Research Traineeship | THRMRT |
Before the start of the traineeship, students must draw up a plan of action in consultation with their mentor. The plan should be handed in to the Graduate School Office (Ms De Boer) before the start of the traineeship and should state clearly at least the following:- what research and training activities are going to be undertaken, in cooperation with whom, and for how many ECTS credit points
- how and where the research and training will be carried out (supervisor(s), location(s) etc.)
- the aim of the activities (importance, relevance for the training of the student at that particular stage of the programme)
- an estimate of the costs involved, if any.
The research activities should be tailored to the academic interests and preferred specialization of the student. They may range from: - writing a publishable book review article, annotated bibliography, article or essay,
- doing a literature or archive search,
- making a field trip,
- holding and transcribing interviews,
- participating in and giving a paper or poster presentation at a national or international conference, seminar or workshop,
to:- participating in a summer school, in the ongoing research activities of their supervisor or in a research project of a scholar abroad who is affiliated to the CRS.
The traineeship as a whole must be graded on the basis of the student’s written work and acquired certificates, if any. Students conclude it by writing a report in which they make a self-evaluation of the training results against the background of their plan of action. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Docent(en) | mentor (supervisor) | | Onderwijsvorm | tutorial | | Toetsvorm | paper, verslag | | ECTS | 10 | | Opmerkingen | Traineeship 1 (10 ECTS)THRMRT1E10, year 1, semester II
Traineeship 2 (10 ECTS)THRMRT2E10, year 2, semester I
Traineeship 3 (10 ECTS)THRMRT3E10, year 2, semester I |
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| 24 | Research Traineeship | THRMRT5 |
Before the start of the traineeship, students must draw up a plan of action in consultation with their mentor. The plan should be handed in to the Graduate School Office (Ms De Boer) before the start of the traineeship and should state clearly at least the following:- what research and training activities are going to be undertaken, in cooperation with whom, and for how many ECTS credit points
- how and where the research and training will be carried out (supervisor(s), location(s) etc.)
- the aim of the activities (importance, relevance for the training of the student at that particular stage of the programme)
- an estimate of the costs involved, if any.
The research activities should be tailored to the academic interests and preferred specialization of the student. They may range from: - writing a publishable book review article, annotated bibliography, article or essay,
- doing a literature or archive search,
- making a field trip,
- holding and transcribing interviews,
- participating in and giving a paper or poster presentation at a national or international conference, seminar or workshop,
to:- participating in a summer school, in the ongoing research activities of their supervisor or in a research project of a scholar abroad who is affiliated to the CRS.
The traineeship as a whole must be graded on the basis of the student’s written work and acquired certificates, if any. Students conclude it by writing a report in which they make a self-evaluation of the training results against the background of their plan of action. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Docent(en) | mentor (supervisor) | | Onderwijsvorm | tutorial | | Toetsvorm | verslag, paper | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | Traineeship 1 (10 ECTS)THRMRT1E10, year 1, semester II
Traineeship 2 (10 ECTS)THRMRT2E10, year 2, semester I
Traineeship 3 (10 ECTS)THRMRT3E10, year 2, semester I |
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| 25 | Social Scientific Research Methods | THM-SSRM5 |
| This course will prepare students for researching and writing their thesis. It will introduce the notion of the research cycle, and will focus on the sub-cycle of the research design. The course is designed in such a way that it will take students through the steps of designing their own research, in consultation with their supervisors. Furthermore, the course will include training in specific social scientific research methods for data gathering and analysis, such as interviewing, discourse analysis, ethnographic research and mixed methods. Finally, research ethics will be discussed and students will have to pass an ethical review before their research design can be graded and approved. Students have to pass this course in order to qualify for the final phase of research and writing for their thesis. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | dr. J. Martínez - Ariño | | Docent(en) | dr. J. Martínez - Ariño | | Onderwijsvorm | peer review, readings, stage, groepsdiscussie, lectures and seminars | | Toetsvorm | opdracht(en), participation, projectopdracht | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | - This course depends very much on your own initiative in reading, networking and writing a research proposal.
- If you do not pass this course, you will not be allowed to start your research. If students do not pass the resit, they will have to retake this course the following year.
- Assessment of this course will be based on attendance and participation in class (10%), the assignments (20%) and the research proposal (70%).
- Research master students, have a different course code:THRM-SSRM5. For these students there will be formulated an extra assignment.
- Workload: lectures and seminars 7x3 hours= 21 hours, individual work (reading literature, preparing assignments) 50 hours, preparing research proposal 70 hours. |
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| 26 | Texts of Terror | THMTTE5 |
Religiously motivated fanaticism and violence constitute a threat to human civilization. All religious traditions seem to have a violent potential. Often, however, the monotheism of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religion is particularly suspected of an aggressive and intolerant potential. Leading figures in all three traditions have turned, at various times, to the exclusion and even violent persecution of people and ideas deemed alien. Sacred texts and ideas drawn from them can play a major role in motivating and justifying the actions of group members. Violent or intolerant behaviour can, from both insider and outside-observer perspectives, reduce the great tradition to a single essence, for which a few selected elements of the tradition are brought forward while many others are ignored.
In this course we study selected texts from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and contexts in which violence, power, and politics have exploited them. We focus on texts that have been used to justify violent actions in order to understand them better in their original contexts, as a basis for tracking later interpretations and exploring how appeals to these texts functioned in relation to political aims. Ultimately we ask whether monotheism necessarily has violent consequences, and how adherents handle the dangerous potentialities of claims to revealed truth. Historical and cultural factors other than monotheistic thought are given their full weight in this investigation. |
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| 27 | The Politics of Heritage | THMTPHE5 |
| This course explores the complex relationship that exists between categories of ‘heritage’, ‘identity’ and ‘memory’ across various levels of politics and society. Rather than seeing heritage that something that is factual, the course explores the ways in which notions of what constitutes heritage shift over time, and the political agendas and assumptions that influence the ways in which certain objects and events are deemed ‘significant’ components of heritage, while other objects and events are not. The course will further explore how heritage features in the construction of particular conceptions of national, religious and cultural identity, noting also that the lines between what is national, religious or cultural identity are not always clear, and that certain objects, spaces and events can be sites of contestation across different groups and communities. Through the use of case studies, including the Standing Rock protests against the North Dakota Pipeline Access in the United States and the Lautsi v Italy case at the European Court of Human Rights, the course will also explore how the contestations over what is heritage, what is sacred, what is religious and what is cultural – and for whom – have very real impacts on law, policy and peoples’ daily lives. |
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| 28 | Theological Heritages | THMTHPMCE5 |
What is truth? Throughout the history of Christianity, theological traditions have understood ‘truth’ in different ways. The traditional understandings of ‘truth’ – both conceptually and with regard to content – are highly contested since early modernity. This contest has been the object of much academic reflection, for instance in the work of Jonathan Israel on the Radical Enlightenment. Some authors, such as Brad Gregory, trace the roots of the crisis in the understanding of ‘truth’ to the Reformation itself. In the 19th century Christian theology developed two responses to this threat. On the one hand, Liberal Theology based its theology on the universal epistemological idea of Schleiermachers Schlechthinniges Abhängigkeitsgefühl, thereby accepting the results of the modern sciences. On the other hand, confessional theology strengthened its own theological truths and challenged atheistic truth claims.
In postmodernism both these approaches are considered troublesome. Universal truth claims have largely been rejected in the collapse of Grand Narratives. The predicted disappearance of religion however has not taken place. This course unit explores how critical thought on the nature of Truth became a part of theological heritage, how the discussions and the different results were embraced as markers of the identities of specified groups of others and denounced by others. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | prof. dr. H. van den Belt | | Docent(en) | prof. dr. W.H. Slobprof. dr. H. van den Beltdr. M. van Dijk | | Onderwijsvorm | lectures | | Toetsvorm | exam, paper, participation, presentation(s) | | ECTS | 5 | | Opmerkingen | - Literature and a calculation of the study load will be announced in the course manual
- Research master students, have a different course code:THRMTHPME5. For these students an extra assignment will be formulated.
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| 29 | Theories of Religion | THRMTRCE10 |
| Today, most scholars conceptualize ‘religion’ primarily as a cultural phenomenon, using insights, methods and theories that are also applied in cultural studies. This course unit explores some of the key issues and texts of the academic study of religion. Students will encounter pioneering ideas that have influenced the development of the study of religion, become acquainted with the key figures who shaped these ideas, analyze influential texts and discuss issues posed by the introduction of new concepts and methods. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | dr. K.E. Knibbe | | Docent(en) | dr. P. Berger Gastdocent(en)dr. K.E. Knibbeprof. dr. S.N. Mason | | Onderwijsvorm | seminar | | Toetsvorm | paper, presentation(s), short assignment(s) | | ECTS | 10 | | Opmerkingen | - Study load: lectures/seminars: 10 x 3 = 30 hours; 2 presentations in class: 20 hours (2 x 20% of the final grade); writing of an academic paper (5,000 words): 40 hours (60% of the final grade); expected self-study: 190 hours.
- Literature will be announced before the start of the course.
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| 30 | Writing a Research Proposal | THRM-WRP |
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| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | prof. dr. M.W. Buitelaar | | Docent(en) | | | Onderwijsvorm | workshops | | Toetsvorm | final paper | | ECTS | 5 |
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