01879 - Comparative Italian Ecclesiastical Law

Learning outcomes

The course provides relevant information in relation to the safeguard of the individual and collective religious freedom and actual operations of religions and their institutions in our system and in the foreign countries.

Course contents

-Towards an Ecclesiastical Law of the European Union
-Systems of relationship between the state and religious confessions in Italy and Europe.
-Negotiation-law, deregulation, concerted action.
-The sources of ecclesiastical law: agreed, agreements, treaties clergymen.
-The unilateral legislation of the State.
-Concept of religion: comparative aspects
-Relations between the State and religious denominations traditional, established, recognized
-Relations between the State and religious not recognized denominations.
-Aspects of ecclesiastical law in Italy
-Confessions of minority religious and Agreements with the State.
-Confessions Entente-free.
-Religious Freedom and legislation on cults.
-Teaching of religion in public schools.
-The ecclesiastical entities.
-The support of the clergy.
-Religious assistance in "separated communities".
-Work-religious.
-Regional legislation in ecclesiastical matters.
-The ethically-sensitive materials: euthanasia, termination of pregnancy, artificial insemination, etc..
-Monographic part
-Religious Freedom and Human Rights in Eastern Europe
-Systems of relationship
-Laws about religious freedom
-Islam Balkan example of integration.

Readings/Bibliography

Reference text for attending and not attending students.
G. Casuscelli, Notions of Ecclesiastical Law, Turin, Giappichelli, 2009
Attending students will have, during the course, other materials.
Monograph: A wise choice to be agreed with the teacher within the volume: Religious freedom and human rights in Eastern Europe, (ed. G. Cymbal and F. Botti), Bononia University Press, Bologna, 2008.

Teaching methods

During the lessons the teacher will use slides as well as documents published on: ecclesiastico.giuri.unibo.it & blog.giuri.unibo.it.
The lessons are finalized in learning the exposure techniques, through written and oral exercises.

Assessment methods

Classes will be held in the semester of the year and therefore those who get the attendance certification, will be able to take the exam in the month of May.
Please note that the exam can be taken only after passing Constitutional Law and Private Law (Private Law), without any exception.
Students in possession of 70% of the signatures of attendance could sustain a partial written test verification (ref.: article 12, paragraph 3 of the Academic Regulations of the Faculty) in the end of April.
The oral examination at the end of the course will focus on the remaining part of the program carried out during the lessons following the written test.

Teaching tools

Attending students will be allowed to play thematic reports that would be evaluated by partial tests.
These activities are finalized in acquiring writing and exposure techniques, useful in the creating process of the thesis.
Blog, Slide in Power Point format, Videoprojector, PC, lightboard, e-learning, etc..

Links to further information

http://ecclesiastico.giuri.unibo.it/ http://blog.giuri.unibo.it/ecclesiastico/

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Cimbalo

See the website of Antonello De Oto