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020005 SE Religious Diversity as a new challenge for state, institutions, religious communities (2015W)

and academic research in Europe - Seminar: Scientific Study of Religions

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 2 - Evangelische Theologie
Continuous assessment of course work

All presentations and discussions of this seminar should be in English, except from the inaugural event on Sept 28, which is in German.
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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

The course starts with an introduction and an inaugural event already on

Monday, 28 Sept 2015:

a) 16:00-18:00, HS 3, Protestant faculty: Introduction and overview, distribution of presentations and protocols (Prof. Reiss). Then we go together to the panel debate:
b) 19:00-21:00, Kapelle des Albert Schweitzer Hauses, Schwarzpanierstr. 13, 1090 Vienna
Panel debate of prison chaplains on multireligious counceling in Austrian jails (in German): "Diversität in Gefängnissen. Vielfalt von Religionen und Seelsorge" with contributions of Ramazan Demir (islam.), Arndt Kopp-Gärtner (evang.), Thule Jug (buddh.), Christian Kuhn (kath.), Catain Soare (orth.). Moderation: Gerhard Richter (Strafvollzugsakademie Wien)

Registration:
Please register for this event in the Protestant Academy until 27 September: akademie@evang.at

  • Wednesday 14.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3 Schenkenstraße 8-10 6.OG
  • Wednesday 21.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3 Schenkenstraße 8-10 6.OG
  • Wednesday 28.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3 Schenkenstraße 8-10 6.OG
  • Wednesday 04.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3 Schenkenstraße 8-10 6.OG
  • Wednesday 11.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3 Schenkenstraße 8-10 6.OG
  • Wednesday 18.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3 Schenkenstraße 8-10 6.OG
  • Wednesday 25.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3 Schenkenstraße 8-10 6.OG
  • Wednesday 02.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3 Schenkenstraße 8-10 6.OG
  • Wednesday 09.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3 Schenkenstraße 8-10 6.OG
  • Wednesday 16.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3 Schenkenstraße 8-10 6.OG
  • Wednesday 13.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3 Schenkenstraße 8-10 6.OG
  • Wednesday 20.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3 Schenkenstraße 8-10 6.OG
  • Wednesday 27.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3 Schenkenstraße 8-10 6.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The course introduces to new challenges which different state institutions, religious communities and academic research face because of recent immigration. After a general introduction on the immigration to German speaking countries the focus will be on the developments in Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities. Then we will focus on hospitals, nursery homes, schools, jails and the army to study how state institutions and the religious communities face the growing diversity in these state institutions.

Assessment and permitted materials

Frequent participation in the course, presentation of at least one paper in the seminar or elaborated protocol of a meeting.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Overview on new challegenges for state institutions, religious communities and academic research in Europe.

Examination topics

Presentations, participation in a panel discussion, discussion with persons dealing with immigrants in state institutions or religious communities.

Reading list

Regina Polak / Wolfram Reiss (ed.): Religion im Wandel. Transformation religiöser Gemeinschaften in Europa durch Migration - Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, V&R Vienna 2015; Ursula Unterberger: Religion - die letzte Freiheit. Religionsausübung im Strafvollzug, Tectum-Verlag Marburg 2013; Mar Griera & Anna Clot-Garrell (2015) Banal is not Trivial: Visibility, Recognition, and Inequalities between Religious Groups in Prison, Journal of Contemporary Religion, 30:1; Mar Griera and Julia Martínez-Ariño: The Accommodation of Religious Diversity in Prisons and Hospitals in Spain, Working Paper No. 28, 2014; Wolfram Reiss: Der Umgang mit religiösen Minderheiten in der österreichischen Armee (Manuskript).

Association in the course directory

[MW]RW-VertSE, [BW]RW-VertSE

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