| 1 | Anthropology: an Introduction | THMIN-ANTH |
| Anthropology, as understood here, deals with humans as social and cultural beings. Humans everywhere organize themselves, thereby giving rise to various forms of social structures which anthropologists study under headings like kinship, age, gender, caste or class. Such structures are expressed, reproduced and modified in ritual processes. Further, humans not only arrange themselves into groups of various kinds but also devise rules that are supposed to regulate social life. In addition, they create an ideal vision of their society in the shape of religious beliefs and cosmologies. Anthropologists study and compare how all this is achieved – and contested – around the globe, in the present as well as through history. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Docent(en) | dr. P. Berger | | Onderwijsvorm | lectures and seminars | | Toetsvorm | | | ECTS | 7.5 | | Opmerkingen | Note:
- Only buy the Monaghan & Just edition of the year 2000! Many copies are available second hand and the book is electronically available via the library.
-Lectures will be in English; student presentations and discussions will also be in Dutch; exam and critical book review can be written in Dutch or English.
-Active participation in a work group is required. Assigned readings have to be completed before every session.
-Workload: reading 95h, presentation 6h, discussion 3h, lectures, seminars lectures 28h, critical book review 70h, preparation exam 8h.
-Assessment: written exam 30%, critical book review 30%, presentation 20%, discussion 20%
- Other literature will be announced later. |
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| 2 | 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 |
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| 3 | Christianity and Religious Diversity | THMIN-CRD |
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| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | prof. dr. T.H. Weir | | Docent(en) | dr. J. Martínez - Ariñoprof. dr. T.H. Weir | | Onderwijsvorm | lectures and seminars | | Toetsvorm | essay, presentation(s) | | ECTS | 7.5 | | Opmerkingen | - Belasting student: hoor/werkcolleges (7 x 3 uur): 14 uur; bijdrage Nestor discussieforum: 8 uur (20% van het eindcijfer); groepspresentatie: 12 uur (40% van het eindcijfer); kort werkstuk: 18 uur (40% van het eindcijfer); zelfstudie: 88 uur.
- Vóór begin van het college zal er een studiehandleiding met gedetailleerde informatie over toetsvormen, programma en leeslijst beschikbaar zijn
- Literatuur: Tijdig zal een lijst met te lezen artikelen bekendgemaakt worden.
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| 4 | Hindoeïsme en Boeddhisme | THMIN-HB |
| De collegereeks onderzoekt de historische oorsprong en ontwikkeling van het hindoeïsme en boeddhisme. De nadruk ligt op de regionale contexten en het bespreken van de relatie tussen religie in theorie en religie in de praktijk. |
| Faculteit | Godgeleerdheid en Godsdienstwetenschap | | Voertaal | Engels | | Coordinator | dr. S. Travagnin | | Docent(en) | dr. P. Bergerdr. S. Travagnin | | Onderwijsvorm | lectures and seminars | | Toetsvorm | opdracht(en) | | ECTS | 7.5 | | Entreevoorwaarden | None | | Opmerkingen | Voor dit college geldt een aanwezigheidsverplichting conform de Onderwijs - en Examenregeling. De student dient tenminste 80 % van de colleges aanwezig te zijn.
Belasting student (210 uur ) is als volgt verdeeld:- hoor/werkcolleges: 42 uur
- voorbereidend lezen: 85 uur
- excursie(s): 10 uur
- voorbereiding voor schriftelijke en mondelinge opdrachten: 73 uur
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| 5 | Law and Religion | THMIN-LRAA |
| 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 | | Coordinator | M.B. McIvor, PhD. | | Docent(en) | M.B. McIvor, PhD. | | Onderwijsvorm | lectures and seminars | | Toetsvorm | exam, essay | | ECTS | 7.5 |
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| 6 | 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. J. Tarusariradr. A. Visser-Nieraeth | | Onderwijsvorm | hoor-/werkcollege | | Toetsvorm | onderzoeksverslag | | ECTS | 7.5 | | Opmerkingen | work load: readings 60h, presentations 9h, short written assignments 9h, sessions 42h, individual research (planning, searching & reading extra literature, conducting research, presentation, writing of report) 100h. |
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| 7 | Spirituality and Secular Religion | THMIN-SASR |
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