SUBJECT

Title

Anthropology of Religion

Type of instruction

lecture + practical

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

3+3

Recommended in

Semester 1/3

Typically offered in

Autumn semester

Course description

Insight of major cultural anthropological approaches into religion as a socio-cultural system is being discussed during the semester. Due to the analysis of issues related to anthropology of religion, the course can be considered as an introduction and preparation for the final exam at the same time. The course contains some of the basic works of cultural anthropology, these writings and theories Religious systems, analyzed during the “Anthropology of Religion” course, as cultural-social systems, are traditional-ritual-cognitive integrators, representors, and are awareness raising, embedding agents at the same time.

The “Anthropology of Religion Seminar”, with the help of cultural anthropology, explores the complex and interrelated issues of religion, ethnicity, “communitas”, culture, and tradition as it applies the analytical approach of socio-historical, socio-cultural, ethnographic aspects of those. The seminar also aims to provide an insight into the meaning of religion, culture and identity in our region, and into the cultural anthropological approach and possible interpretation of those.