Christianity and religions

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

5) ability to carry out research autonomously.

Specific objectives:

The course proposes a path through the history of critical studies in religious-historical matters: from the birth of mythology to comparative studies in the history of religions.  Special attention will be given to the religious history of the ancient and late antique Mediterranean: from Judaism to Islam (mod. A). An in-depth study will cover the study of the discourses of Paul of Tarsus in the Acts of the Apostles, read and commented in the original language (mod. B). 

A. History and Method (3 ECTS):

Books:

-          R. Barcellona, La conoscenza e l’ignoranza delle religioni degli altri. L'Italia, la scuola e l'università, in una prospettiva europea, «Siculorum Gymnasium. A Journal for the Humanities» 69/2 (2017), pp. 209-231.

-          G. Filoramo-M. Massenzio-M. Raveri-P. Scarpi, Manuale di storia delle religioni, Bari 1998, pp. 1-137; 173-287.

-          G. Sfameni Gasparro, Introduzione alla storia delle religioni, Bari, Laterza 2011, pp. 231.

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