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010105 VO Animism (2023W)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 1 - Katholische Theologie
Moodle

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Details

Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 04.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Wednesday 11.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Wednesday 18.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Wednesday 25.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Wednesday 08.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Wednesday 15.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Wednesday 22.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Wednesday 29.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Wednesday 06.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Wednesday 13.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Wednesday 10.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Wednesday 17.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Wednesday 24.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5
  • Wednesday 31.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 9 Hof 5

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Content
• Modernist animism
• Neo-animism
• Animism and shamanism
• Animism and environment
• Animism and folk religion
• Dolls and animism
• Animism and popular culture

Assessment and permitted materials


Final exam (100%)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria


Being prepared for the class by reading the materials that would be provided.

Examination topics

• Modernist animism
• Neo-animism
• Animism and shamanism
• Animism and environment
• Animism and folk religion
• Dolls and animism
• Animism and popular culture

Reading list

Bird-David, Nurit. 1999. “Animism Revisited: Personhood, Environment, and Relational Epistemology. “Current anthropology, 40(S1), pp.S67-S91.

Tylor, Edward Burnett. 1958. Religion in Primitive Culture. Harper Torchbooks.

Guthrie, Stewart Elliot. 1995. Faces in the clouds: A New Theory of Religion. Oxford University Press.

Harvey, Graham. 2005. Animism: Respecting the Living World. New York: Columbia University Press.

Harvey Graham.2014. The Handbook of Contemporary Animism. New York: Routledge.

Ingold, Tim. 2006. Rethinking the Animate, Re-animating thought. Ethnos, 71(1), pp.9-20.

Association in the course directory

066 800: M3; M16; 033 195: BRP 16rwb (statt VO Aufbaukurs Philosophische Anthropologie)

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