CHURCHES RELIGIONS AND MULTICULTURALISM

According to the Dublin descriptors, the course aims to provide:

1) a knowledge of advanced issues and problems of the discipline on the historical, historiographical and methodological.

2) the necessary tools to apply methodologies proper to the discipline, to argue competently on the topics and questions dealt with.

3) tools for building independent judgement, capacity for critical analysis, synthesis of new ideas, to be used as possible keys to tackle case studies on phenomena of early Christianity.

4) a method for interpreting acquired data, exercising the ability to elaborate possible theses and communicate with technical language and competence the contents of the discipline. 

The course structure will be based on frontal lectures, but students will be expected to contribute actively to the discussion on the topic under consideration with questions and answers. The frontal teaching will be supported by power point slides and other tools.

All themes will be developed with sources and studies critical reading.

A (3 ECTS): Religions of the Book

- Issues pertaining to the history of religions and methodology.

- Historical evolution and interactions of contemporary monotheisms.

- Founders of Religious traditions.

- Hebrew Bible and Catholic Bible.

- The Koran.

- Jesus in the Koran

B (3 ECTS): Religions in the cinema

- Acquiring knowledge to understand religion as a dimension of cross-culturalism.

- Film and Religions: the birth of a research field and its methodology

- Film and Religions: Interpretative Research Paradigms

- Film, Women and Religions.

A (3 ECTS):

- G. Filoramo - F. Pajer, Di che Dio sei? Tante religioni un solo mondo, Società Editrice Internazionale, Torino 2011, pp.170.

- P. Stefani, La Bibbia. L’Antico e il Nuovo Testamento: il libro per eccellenza, Il Mulino, Bologna 2004, pp. 133.

- P. Branca, Il Corano. Il libro della civiltà islamica, Il Mulino, Bologna 2001, pp. 120.

B (3 ECTS):

- S. Botta - E. Prinzivalli (eds.), Cinema e religioni, Carocci 2010, pp. 124.

- R. Barcellona, Donne in scena, duetredue ed., 2022, pp. 192.

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