Religion, secularity and laicity in Europe (19th-21th centuries) - JTB303

• Title: Religion, secularity and laicity in Europe (19th-21th centuries)
• Guaranteed by: Department of European Studies (23-KZS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 24 / unknown (24)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Dr. Paul Bauer
• Teacher(s): Dr. Paul Bauer
• Class: Courses for incoming students
• Incompatibility : JMB091

Annotation

Last update: Dr. Paul Bauer (14.09.2023)

According to specialists of religion, in the last century, Europe may be seen as the only cultural area where secularization asserts fully in modern societies. Erasure of Churches from the public arena, the separation between religion and politics and the fall of religious practices are some aspects of the secularization process in Europe while everywhere else the contrary is observed. However, religiosity is far from having totally disappeared. The most recent observation and analysis speaks even about a return of religiosity within debates on national and cultural identity, on ethics and modernity.

Aim of the course

Last update: Dr. Paul Bauer (17.09.2019)

The lesson proposes to discuss in a sociological and political point of view the recent evolution and changes of religiosity in Europe and questions its link with the secularization process and the laicity principle.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Bc. Sára Lochmanová (05.10.2023)

Grading is based on the Dean's Measure no. 20/2019: https://fsv.cuni.cz/deans-measure-no-20/2019

• 91% and more   => A
• 81-90%             => B
• 71-80%             => C
• 61-70%             => D
• 51-60%             => E
• 0-50%               => F

More in SMĚRNICE S_SO_002: Organizace zkouškových termínů, kontrol studia a užívání klasifikace A–F na FSV UK.

Literature

Last update: Dr. Paul Bauer (04.10.2020)

 

Recommended readings:

 

1.     On secularization

 

Max Weber, the Protestant ethic and the spirit of Capitalism, 1905

 

Grace Davie: The sociology of Religion, 2013.

 

Charles Taylor: A Secular age, Harvard University Press, 2007

 

David Martin, A General Theory of secularisation, Blackwell, London, 1978.

 

Peter L Berger, The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics, 2009

 

Marcel Gauchet: The disenchantment of the World.

 

Danièle Hervieux-Léger, Religion as chain of memory.

 

2.     On Modernity

 

Anthony Giddens, The consequences of modernity, London: Polity Press, 1990.

 

Bruno Latour, We have never been modern, Harvard University Press, 1993, or Reset Modernity, MIT Press. 2016

 

Philippe Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture, Chicago University Press, 2013.

 

Web Resources:

On legal status of religions in Europe: 

http://www.eurel.info/?lang=en 

On religion and public life:

http://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-exec/

Teaching methods

Last update: Dr. Paul Bauer (21.09.2023)

Each session is divided into two parts: a formal lecture, and a seminar type discussion animated by a student presentation.

The class is a presence learning lesson taking place at Jinonice Campus room B217. Monday 5pm-6:20pm

Nota: Occasionally, distant lesson via the "Teams" meeting platform will be provided. The link will be shared one week before the class.

 

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Dr. Paul Bauer (14.09.2023)

Requirements:

Active participation (10%)

Students are required do read the mandatory texts for each class and be prepared to answer questions related to it in the class. Repeated failures to answer questions in class will lower student’s score.

Class Presentation  (40%)

What will be expected:

15 mn presentation

Paper based on the presentation (50%) A-F grade's system

Students will write a short paper about the chosen presentation's topic.  Minimum length: 6400 characters with spaces.

Send the paper  to Pauli Bauer ([e-mail]). 

Due date for the paper: 7th January, 2024. No late submissions accepted!