| 1 | Antropologie van moslimsamenlevingen | THMINOR-C |
| This course will provide an overview of the history of Islamic thought and practice from ca. 600 until the present day with a focus on the practice of Islam and its embeddedness in daily life in a variety of cultural contexts. It will provide students with a basic understanding of the contents of the Qur’an, as well as debates over authority in Islamic tradition. The continuities and discontinuities between the formative and classical periods, and what a sampling of contemporary Muslims claim as their tradition, will be discussed. Some attention will also be devoted to the variety of “Islamic” responses to modernity: e.g. migration, colonialism, urbanization, industrialization, etc. The main focus in the course is on how present day Muslims draw on the Islamic repertoire of symbols, rituals and dogmas to orientate themselves in the world and find answers to fundamental existential questions. We do so by discussing and reflecting texts based on recent ethnographic research project |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Docent(en) | prof. dr. M.W. Buitelaar | | Onderwijsvorm | hoor-/werkcollege | | Toetsvorm | essay, opdracht(en), schriftelijk tentamen | | ECTS | 7.5 | | Entreevoorwaarden | Propedeuse |
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| 2 | Christianity and Religious Diversity | THMIN-CRD |
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| 3 | Climate Change,End Times,Sustainability | THMIN-CC |
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| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | Prof. Dr. E.K. Wilson | | Docent(en) | G. Andrejc, PhD. L.R. Draaisma, MA.Dr. J. TarusariraProf. Dr. E.K. Wilson | | Onderwijsvorm | group tutorials, lectures, readings, self-study | | Toetsvorm | actieve deelname, opdracht(en) | | ECTS | 7.5 | | Opmerkingen | - Het is mogelijk om het vak voor 5 ECTS te volgen: THMIN-CC5
- In geval van noodsituaties of overmacht, zoals een maatschappelijke lockdown, moeten er mogelijk wijzigingen worden aangebracht in de lesroosters, toetsing en beoordeling. De docent zal je zo snel mogelijk informeren over deze wijzigingen, mocht een dergelijke situatie zich voordoen.
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| 4 | Climate Change,End Times,Sustainability | THMIN-CC5 |
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| 5 | Inhabiting cultural worlds | THMIN-ICW5 |
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| 6 | Inhabiting cultural worlds | THMIN-ICWA |
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| 7 | Law and Religion | THMINLRASA |
| Anthropologists have long been concerned with social order and the institutions, persons, and forms of authority that contribute to its maintenance (or, indeed, its disruption). This has led to a longstanding ethnographic interest in both religion and law. While early anthropologists debated whether or not stateless societies could be said to ‘have’ law, today’s legal anthropologists are more likely to study the interaction of normative regimes, including religious practices, which may be independent, mutually reinforcing, or even at odds with state-backed law. This course introduces students to the anthropological overlap of law and religion, with a particular focus on the rise of human rights discourse in both scholarly and popular circles. Beginning with theoretical questions concerning the foundations of human rights, their global applicability, and the meaning of ‘human’, we will move on to discuss case studies centred on the right to religious freedom; gendered bodies and religious obligation; and the use of rights-based rhetoric to challenge liberal politics. By examining the interaction of law and religion, we will explore such themes as doubt, certainty, and faith; the question of universal versus relative values; and the constraining (and liberating) effects of legal language, particularly as these issues relate to the study of religion. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Docent(en) | Prof. Dr. E.K. Wilson | | Onderwijsvorm | lectures and seminars | | Toetsvorm | essay, exam | | ECTS | 7.5 |
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| 8 | Religion in South Asia | THMIN-RSA |
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| 9 | Rituals in Theory and Practice | THMIN-RTP |
The first part of the course will focus on different theoretical approaches to the study of ritual. Students will intensively engage with some of the main theoretical perspectives they present and discuss in class.
The second part will consist in the preparation and execution of a small case study. With regard to a particular case the students select (based on an empirical inquiry, media or literature research), they will be asked to develop research questions they will investigate then with reference to their chosen case.
The third part will deal with the results of and reflection on this case study. The students are asked to write and present a short report in which they are asked to describe their research in a structured way, reflect on the process as well as on the findings and shall attempt a preliminary analysis by referring to some of the theories discussed earlier. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | Dr. P. Berger | | Docent(en) | Dr. P. Bergerdr. B.M.H.P. Mathijssen | | Onderwijsvorm | hoor-/werkcollege | | Toetsvorm | to be announced | | ECTS | 7.5 | | Opmerkingen | “In the event of emergency situations and force majeur, such as societal lockdown, changes may need to be made to class schedules and assessment. Your lecturer will inform you of these changes as soon as possible, should such a situation arise.” |
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| 10 | Spirituality and Secular Religion | THMIN-SASR |
| “I’m spiritual, but not religious” — that is what many people today respond when they are asked about their religious ideas and values. If we look closer at what this spirituality entails, we often find convictions about a higher meaning of life, about the place of the human being in the cosmos, about the sacredness of the world, about hidden powers in nature, and about modern physics and biology as not conflicting with spiritual experience. In this course, we will reconstruct the genealogy of these ideas and practices, which have emerged from a philosophical, religious, scientific, and allegedly “secular” setup during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We will trace the impact of these discourses on new spiritual practices from the 1950s through today. Such practices include nature-based spiritualities, Paganism, astrology, shamanism, and related currents that have sometimes — and misleadingly — been called “New Age.” |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Docent(en) | Prof. Dr. C.K.M. von Stuckrad | | Onderwijsvorm | lectures and seminars | | ECTS | 7.5 | | Opmerkingen | “In the event of emergency situations and force majeur, such as societal lockdown, changes may need to be made to class schedules and assessment. Your lecturer will inform you of these changes as soon as possible, should such a situation arise.” |
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