Annotation
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with various theoretical approaches to the study of religion and thus initiate a more developed theoretical framing in their master theses. The content of the course involve presentations and class discussions of important theoretical texts concerning religion. The participants will choose texts according their specializations at the beginning of the semester from the proposed list. The proposed texts are not limited to any specific field, rather those texts are offered the importance and impact of which exceed a specific sub-discipline of anthropology. Thus, the proposed list of literature involves diverse texts from historical philosophy of religion (e.g. Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant), proto-psychology and psychology of religion
(Schleiermacher, W. James), sociology (M. Weber, E. Durkheim, P. Bourdieu, R. N. Bellah), evolutionary biology
(R. Dunbar), cultural anthropology (C. Geertz) and contemporary philosophy (J. Habermas, C. Taylor).