Syllabus
Anthropology of the contemporary religious trends
Antropologie současných náboženských proudů 1/1 ZC
Mgr. Jitka Cirklová M.A.
Recommended reading:
Woodhead, Linda. Paul Heels. 2000. Religion in Modern Times, An Interpretive Anthology, Blackwell Publishers.
Hanegraaff, Wouter J.. 1999. New Age Religion and Western Culture, Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought, State University of New York.
European Values Study: http://www.europeanvalues.nl/index2.htm
World Values Survey: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/ 1. Course intro 2a. New academic trends in the sociology of religion
Casanova, José. 2000. ¨Religon, the New Millenium and Globalization¨, Sociology of Religion 2001, 62:4, s. 415-441.
Lambert, Yves. 1999. ¨Religion in Modernity as a New Axial Age: Secularization or New Religious Forms??, Sociology of Religion 60:3, s. 303-333.
Nešpor, Zdeněk. 2004. Jaká víra? Současná česká religiozita/spiritualita v pohledu kvalitativní sociologie náboženství, SOÚ AV ČR, Sociologické studie 05, Praha 2004, 13-15, 108. 2b. Anthropology of the fundamentalism and of the new orthodox movements
Caplan, Lionel.1985. ¨Fundamentalism Pursued¨, Anthropology Today, Vol. 1, No. 4. (Aug., 1985), pp. 18-19.
Heilman, Samuel. 2000. Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry. University of California Press, Berkeley, kap. 18. 3a. The problematic of gender from the perspective of conservative rel. movements
¨Women in Black, Women in Green, Girls in Orange.... Women?s voices in the conflict about meaning of current political situation in Israel; Women?s political activism in the context of religious experience (or it?s lack).¨
Ajatoláh Chomejní, 1979. Projev u příležitosti narozenin Fatimy.V Azar Tabari a Nahid Yeganeh (eds) 1982: In the Shadow of Islam. The Women`s Movement in Iran. London: Zed Press, s. 100-2 3b. Modification of sacrality and social functions of the religon
Hamplová, Dana. 2000. Náboženství a nadpřirozeno ve společnosti. Mezinárodní srovnání na základě empirického výzkumu ISSP. Sociologické texty 00:3. Praha: SÚ AV ČR.
Wuthnow, Robert. 1998. After Heaven, Spirituality in America Since the 1950s., University of California Press, Berkeley, p. 1-19. 4. Shamanism and neo-Shamanism
Merete Demant Jakobsen, Shamanism, Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing, Berghahn Books 1999, kap. 1, 5.
Analýza neo-šamanismu u nás: www.cestasrdce.cz 5a. Chasidism today
Idel, Moshe. 1995. Hasidism, Between Ecstasy and Magic, State University of New York Press, Intro.
Langer, Jiří. 1996. Devět bran. Chasidů tajemství. Sefer.
Video- Rebe a jeho komunita dnes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gwv9e0BsoU 5b. Fieldtrip to chasidic community http://www.lubavitch.com http://www.chabad.com/ 6a. Eastern trends in the contemorary spirituality
Bauman, Martin. 1998.?Working in the Right Spirit: The Application of Buddhist Right Livelihood in the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order?. Journal of Buddhist Ethics, volume 5: s. 120 ?143.
Campbell, Colin. 1999. "The Easternisation of the West," in New Religious Movements: Challenge and Response, eds. Jamie Cresswell and Bryan Wilson. London: Routledge, 35-48.
Casanova, José. 2000. ¨Religon, the New Millenium and Globalization¨, Sociology of Religion 2001, 62:4, s. 415-441. 6b. Film
Film Holy Smoke, 1999, Jane Campion. 7a. Religous experience as a microsocial process
Douglas, Mary. 1970. Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology, Londýn, Rarrie and Rockliff, Cresset Press, s.76-88.
Idel, Moshe.1998. Kabballah: New Perspectives, Yale, s. 35-73.
Wagner, Don. 2002. ¨For Zion's Sake¨Middle East Report, No. 223. (Summer, 2002), pp. 52-57. http://apostolskacirkev.cz/ 7b. Perspective of the participant/ perspective of the anthropologist
Geertz, Clifford. 2000. Interpretace kultur, Praha, část III.
Langer, Jiří. 1923. Erotika Kabaly, Horus 1991, Brno.
Idel, Moshe, 2005. Kabbalah and Eros, Yale, s. 155-165.
Annotation
Starting to see the social process of religion, while understood as organized and patterned, is also dynamic and fluid, embodying the effects of, and exemplifying, wider social movements.