HISTORY OF RELIGIONS II (IN-DEPTH RESEARCHES)

This course aims at giving students necessary scientific skills to approach fundamental subjects belonging to religious traditions. The method and the content are related with other courses ( e.g. history and anthropology).

The study of any cultural context is seriously lacking without adequate knowledge of its religious aspects. 
Alongside the value of the History of Religions as a critical investigation method into an important aspect of each and every society, the more theoretical function of the discipline should be emphasised, having represented the first specific sphere of application of the intercultural reflection and the related historical comparison, and which by its very nature has often performed a function of theoretical and methodological connection and mediation between the 'historical sciences' and the anthropological, ethnographical, sociological and psychological disciplines.

More specifically, this course is monographic or thematic.

It is not required to have attended History of Religions I° , but it is advisable to know Brelich's introduction ( see Bibliography).
Competences in general Culture and History are required

The course deepens some subjects as:
- the 'magic'
-the Voice( Mythes of Sound; Sibyllae; voice and ritual)
- Categories of one and multiplicity in ritual contexts


- Students can also choose a specific subject to be agreed with the Professor

- Brelich, A. Introduzione alla storia delle religioni, Roma, Ed.Ateneo 2003 (pp.1-70)

-P. Clemente - C. Grottanelli Comparativa/mente Seid Firenze 2009(a chap.)
-S. Crippa La voce. Sonorità e pensiero alle origini della cultura europea, Milano, Unicopli 2015 ( II° chap.)
- S. Consigliere (ed) Mondi multipli I°, Kaiak ed.2014 (a chap.)

- Tambiah Magia, scienza, Religione, Liguori, Napoli 2000( a chap.)
or
-Crippa Corpi e saperi Pendragon 2019 : 2 articles which must be decided withb Professor
or
Meroi-Scaparrone (eds.) La magia nell'Europa moderna Pisa 2004(a chap.)
or
R. Kieckhefer La magia nel Medioevo Laterza 2004 (a chap.)

The choosen Method to evaluate the student's Knowledge consists in an oral examination on the topics dealt with the course; with result recording

Lectures.
Moreover, further activities of course are the seminar POIKILIA and the visite to Grottanelli's library at BAUM.

Italian

Attendance is recommended.

For non-attending students, it is necessary to add a text to be agreed with the Professor.
For specific studies of students it is possible to choose in-deepth readings.


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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development