Post-Secular Societies. An Interdisciplinary Perspective - JSB731

• Title: Post-Secular Societies. An Interdisciplinary Perspective
• Guaranteed by: Department of Sociology (23-KS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 7
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Barbora Spalová, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Barbora Spalová, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses not for incoming students

Annotation

The course introduces students to current approaches in studying religious and spiritual diversity in European societies in particular. It is based on theoretical study, but its core lies in seminar works providing the opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge in research. The students will engage in the pertinent societal issues arising from the need to manage religious diversity in dynamic modern societies.

Please, sign up for course materials in moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=15836

Last update: Spalová Barbora, Mgr., Ph.D. (29.01.2024)

Aim of the course

Course Objective
1. Understanding the spiritual and religious diversity in contemporary societies.
2. Capability to observe and analyse various forms of religiosity.

Last update: Hájek Martin, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (02.01.2022)

Literature

Materials are available in moodle: https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=4439

Obligatory reading:
Selected chapters from:
ASAD, Talal. Formations of the secular: Christianity, Islam, modernity / Talal Asad. 2003. ISBN 0804747679.
DAVIE, Grace. Religion in modern Europe: a memory mutates / Grace Davie. 2000. ISBN 0198280653.
LUHRMANN, T. M. Persuasions of the witch's craft: ritual magic in contemporary England / T.M. Luhrmann. 1991. ISBN 0674663241.

Recommended reading:
Peter Nynas, Mika Lassander, Terhi Utriainen. 2012. Post-Secular Society. Transaction Publishers.
Gordan, G., Pace, E. (eds.) 2012. Mapping Religion and Spirituality in a Postsecular World. BRILL

Last update: Tesárek Jan, Mgr. (12.02.2022)

Syllabus

Course Schedule
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2 - 4: Religion mutates: changing European religious and spiritual landscape
week 5 - 7: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of religion and spirituality
week 8 - 10: Management of religious (including secularist) diversity in Europe
Week 11: Individual or group field work
Week 12: Concluding colloquium (presentation & discussion of students’ work)

Last update: Hájek Martin, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (02.01.2022)