HISTORY OF RELIGIONS SP

The course is related to historical and linguistic domains of Science of Antiquity and to Anthropology: the course is one of the core educational activities characterizing the Master’s Degree Programme in HIstory.
The interdisciplinary approach broadens skills concerning subjects of 'sacred' area, offering tools and methodology in order to compare different traditions and cultures.
The course aims to give students methodological and cultural requirements for professional, cultural and didactic activities within : communication domain, scientific spread, analysis of historical and social processes.
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The aim of this course is to offer critical and less studied elements concerning a very important discussion always present within history of religions and in the studies regarding relationship between categories in different cultures.
In particular, attending the course and practicing individual study allow students to acquire specific knowledge: some instruments which are necessary in order to reflect on the relationship between so-called "magical" traditions and scientific culture.
The students will acquire cognitive abilities in order to sketch a scientific research and to transmit the results of this research over through the scientific communication.

Historical and general cultural competences and a specific interest in interdisciplinary researches and comparative studies between cultures.

Title:
Scientific culture and " magical" traditions between Western and Eastern world

Since Antiquity, Western culture in different domains ( history, anthropology,literature, arts) has always focused on the relationship between different fields of knowledge and their transmission throughout the centuries: science, astrology, astronomy, magic, divination, etc. The main purpose of this course is to highlight some fundamental features of the relationship between these domains, such as conflicts, censorships, convergences, in a perspective involving both Eastern and Western traditions. A particular study will focus on the complex use of 'glossolalia' in the magic context with respect to divinatory procedures.
The course will be introduced by a presentation of subjects and methods of history of religions.

-Texts distributed during the course

A. Brelich Introduzione alla storia delle religioni ed ateneo 2005, pp. 1-70
Massenzio, M. Sacro e identità etnica. Franco Angeli Milano 1994 ( I cap.)
Crippa Corpi e saperi Pendragon 2019 : 1 article
1 chapt.from Section Le pratiche: gesti, parole, oggetti,tecniche of Atlante delle religioni UTET 1998, pp.400-477.
Grafton, A. Il Signore del tempo.I mondi e le opere di un astrologo del Rinascimento, Laterza 1999 ( one chapter of your choice).
LLoyd G. Magia ragione esperienza Cambridge University Press 1982 ( one chapter of your choice)
Cardona , G. R. La foresta di piume Laterza ( one chapter of your choice)
P. Clemente - C. Grottanelli Comparativa/mente Seid Firenze 2009( one chapter of your choice)
S. Consigliere ( a cura) Mondi multipli I°, Kaiak ed.2014 ( one chapter of your choice)
T. Nathan e I. Stengers - Medici e stregoni Boringhieri 2002 (one chapter of your choice)
I. McEwan - Invito alla meraviglia, Einaudi 2020 (one chapter of your choice)



-in any case, everyone must write a thesis of max 15 pages, notes and bibliography included, relating to the topic of the course. it is also possible to agree on an alternative personal program.

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

written and oral

28-30L: mastery of the topics covered in class and in the manuals; ability to prioritize information; use of appropriate technical terminology;
26-27: good knowledge of the topics covered in class and, to a lesser extent, in the manuals; fair ability to organize information and present it orally; familiarity with technical terminology;
24-25: not always in-depth knowledge of the topics covered in class and in the manuals; orderly oral presentation but with not always correct use of technical terminology;
22-23: often superficial knowledge of the topics covered in class and in the manuals; unclear oral presentation and lacking in technical terminology;
18-21: knowledge of the topics covered in class and in the manuals is at times incomplete; confused oral presentation, with little use of technical terminology.

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

For further information: scrippa@unive.it

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