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.
5) indications for acquiring
specialist knowledge independently, using the research and working tools
provided during the course.
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. Assisted seminar activities are also planned. The
frontal teaching will be supported by power point slides and other tools.
All themes will be developed
with sources and studies critical reading.
The
material presented in class (PowerPoint slides, sources, essays) will be
available for download at the Studium platform.Module A (3 ECTS):
Research: problems and
methods.
Elements of
historiography history.
Religions and citizenship in
Europe and Italy.
Module B (3 ECTS):
Teaching. Problems and
methods.
Teaching religions in school and university today.Module A (3 ECTS):
- R.
Barcellona- A. Mursia- A. Rotondo (a cura di), Politeismi Cristianesimi Paganesimi. Strumenti e
metodi per percorsi diacronici fra religioni, Rubbettino 2025,
pp. 250.
Module B (3 ECTS):
·
A. Bernardo,
A. Saggioro, i Princìpi di Toledo e le
religioni a scuola, Aracne, Roma 2015, 284 pp.
La sezione monografica della rivista «Religione e Società»
25/68, 2010, i seguenti contributi (100 pp. ca):
·
M. Giorda, La Storia delle religioni: una via italiana
dell’educazione alla cittadinanza, pp. 1-16.
·
P. Naso, I Religious Studies nella società multiculturale, pp.15-17.
·
M. Sachot, Lo studio e l’insegnamento del fatto religioso: il
trabocchetto dell’etnocentrismo, pp. 18-21.
·
M. Giorda, Per una didattica della storia delle religioni,
pp. 22-33.
·
F. Pajer, Scuola pubblica, diversità religiosa, cittadinanza
democratica: un paradigma europeo, pp. 34-51.
·
M. Giorda, S. Stilla, Insegnare le religioni all’Università, pp.
52-83.
·
Saggioro, Il ruolo dell’università nella questione ‘Ora di religione/Ora delle
religioni’: una sfida aperta, pp. 84-92.
·
M. Giorda, L’insegnamento della religione cattolica nella scuola
italiana, pp. 93-100.
·
Castilla Vasquez, Il fenomeno religioso in un mondo globalizzato,
pp. 101-105.
