Anthropology of contemporary religiousness

Duration

30h Th, 12h Pr

Number of credits

Lecturer

Marie Daugey, Elodie Razy

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The profusion of religions that the world presents involves all the disciplines of the social sciences. How can we identify these new or parallel religious forms which often oscillate between "tradition" and "modernity"? The curiosity, mistrust or sometimes fear that they give rise to raises questions. What is the meaning of these contemporary religiosities in their context of production?
This course will seek to explore the answers that anthropology provides to these questions using a variety of ethnographic examples (neopagan practices, religions on the internet, ecospirituality, prophetism, multiconfessionalism, etc.) as well as various and recent theoretical approaches.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Students will be able to identify and describe forms of contemporary religiosity which they will be able to analyse in the light of recent methodological and theoretical proposals. They will be able to report and debate these in a reflective manner.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Classes, conferences, videos, discussions and debates, reading, ethnographic fieldwork.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Classes, conferences, videos, discussions and debates, reading, ethnographic fieldwork.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

In class.

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

Classes
Code red, orange, yellow until the end of the quadrimester: podcasts and live sessions on lifesize (instructions on myuliege). The live sessions are podcasted on myuliege.
  Yellow, orange or red code (changes: evaluation's organization) (see instructions and criteria in "course materials")
(possible fieldwork' s adjustments)

- 1 written work to be sent on 20/01/2020 (1st exam session) or 20/08/2020 (2nd exam session) to elodie.razy@uliege.be before midnight.
- The presentation takes place on lifesize
- The originally scheduled written preparation of the debate is replaced by a post-debate oral assessment.
Final report: 50%
Oral presentation: 20%
Debate : 30%

Recommended or required readings

Students will have to read articles and extracts from publications and will choose other ones for their final report and the debate they will conduct.
 
 

Assessment methods and criteria

Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.

Any session :

- In-person

written exam

- Remote

oral exam AND written work

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred remote


Additional information:

Students must write a final report based on their ethnographic fieldwork and give an oral presentation; students must also prepare and conduct a debate on a subject that will be chosen in class.
Final report: 50%
Oral presentation: 20%
Debate : 30%
  Yellow, orange or red code (changes: evaluation's organization) (see instructions and criteria in "course materials")
(possible fieldwork' s adjustments)

- 1 written work to be sent on 20/01/2020 (1st exam session) or 20/08/2020 (2nd exam session) to elodie.razy@uliege.be before midnight.
- The presentation takes place on lifesize
- The originally scheduled written preparation of the debate is replaced by a post-debate oral assessment. The debate takes place on lifesize

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

The course will start on 1 October.

Contacts

Students can arrange to see me by appointment.
Elodie Razy: elodie.razy@uliege.be Bureau 2.36 (B31)
Marie Daugey: mdaugey@uliege.be Bureau 2.48 (B31)

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