08610 - Sociology of Religions

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Docente: Giuseppe Lucà Trombetta
  • Credits: 5
  • SSD: SPS/11
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Cultural Operator / Expert in Education Sciences (cod. 0084)

Learning outcomes

acquisition of intellectual instruments for a better understandig of the religious phenomenon in contemporary society

Course contents

Among the themes of the lessons are the following:

·        Religions and secularization

·        Sects, cults and New Religioous Mouvement

·        Self- made religions

·        Implicit religion (non-religious ritualities, consumerism, ideologies)

·        Sexuality, eroticism and Power in Catholicism

·        Religions and immigrant's identities

Readings/Bibliography

A. Aldridge, La religione nel mondo contemporaneo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2005

 

one book among the following:

P. Lucà Trombetta, Le confessioni della lussuria: Sessualità erotismo e potere nel Cattolicesimo, Costa e Nolan, Milano, 2005   P. Lucà Trombetta, Il bricolage religioso. Sincretismo e nuova religiosità, Dedalo, Bari, 2004

 

 P. Lucà Trombetta, Religioni e integrazione degli immigrati. Ricerche       americane e italiane a confronto, du-press, 2007 (testo reperibile presso la      libreria Nautilus, via de' Castagnoli 12/a, Bologna.

 

Assessment methods

 

Teaching tools

power point presentations

class work

Links to further information

http://www2.scedu.unibo.it/trombetta/religioni/

Office hours

See the website of Giuseppe Lucà Trombetta