- Docente: Dario Cosi
- Credits: 6
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in History (cod. 0962)
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, students will be able to understand the religious phenomena within the light of historical comparative method and to be able to identify their caracteristics and typologies. In particular, students will obtain knowledge of the antiquity and late antiquity contexrs where various religions co-existed.
Course contents
Veil, unveal, reveal. The veil in religions.
List of topics: The history of religions and his method. Nature and function of religion. The veil in religions.
Readings/Bibliography
- Giulia SFAMENI GASPARRO, Introduzione alla Storia delle religioni, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2011;
- Rosella PREZZO, Veli d'occidente. Trasformazioni di un simbolo, Moretti&Vitali, Bergamo 2017;
- Renata PEPICELLI, Il velo nell'Islam. Storia, politica, estetica, Carocci, Roma 2012;
- Notes from lectures and seminars and individual readings.
NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS: ADD:
- G. FILORAMO, Che cos'è la religione. Temi metodi problemi, Einaudi, Torino 2004.
Teaching methods
The Course consist of: 30 hours of frontal teachings in classroom, held by the titular teacher.
The Course also consist of: a few hours of supplementary didactics, held by collaborators of the teacher.
Assessment methods
The oral exam will seek to verify the understanding of the topics dealt during the Course, the acquisition of the knowledges proposed by the prescribed Bibliography for individual study and the ability of interpreting documents and linking research topics and particular problems.
Top marks will be awarded to a student displaying an overall understanding of the topics discussed during the lectures, combined with a critical approach to the material and a confident and effective use of the appropriate terminology.
Average marks will be awarded to a student who has memorized the main points of the material and is able to summarise them satisfactorily and provide an effective critical commentary, while not demonstrating full use of the appropriate terminology.
It will be deemed to have failed the exam if the student presents significant errors in its understanding and non-acquisition of the general lines of the subject, along with a bad utilization of the appropriate terminology.
Teaching tools
The Course includes the use of the Library of the Section of Storia antica (via Zamboni, 38) of the Department of Storia Culture Civilta' (DiSCi) for research and word processing.
Office hours
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