This course deals with different forms of trauma (political, domestic, sexual, natural disaster, illness) and their relation to religion. The course focuses on the power of the ‘ordinary’, ‘everydayness’, and ‘embodiment’ (lived religion) as key to exploring the intersection of trauma and the everyday reality of religion.
Religion, Violence and Trauma
Course Description
Course Objective
The aims of the course are that the student:
• Can analyze how religion and trauma interact, and how that impacts individuals and communities on the one hand and our religious, philosophical and theological perceptions and doctrines on the other hand.
• Can analyze positive and negative contributions of religion in coping with trauma in individual life-stories using coping and trauma theory.
• Can evaluate the theological/religious complexity of trauma and is able to reflect hermeneutically on those complexities.
• Is able to communicate in a religious/theological adequate way on the theme of religion and trauma.
• Is able to analyze and critically evaluate new contributions of religion in dealing and coping with trauma and reflect on them and on his/her/their own professional approaches in this field and to determine which elements require further personal development of competencies.
Course Content
This course deals with different forms of trauma (political, domestic, sexual, natural disaster, illness) and their relation to religion. The course focuses on the power of the ‘ordinary’, ‘everydayness’, and ‘embodiment’ (lived religion) as key to exploring the intersection of trauma and the everyday reality of religion. We will address theories of traumatization and reflect on the age-old role of religion in coping and living with trauma, as well as the fundamental questions of (theological) anthropology: the nature of being human.
Additional Information Teaching Methods
Seminar
Study Characteristics
- Name of teacher: prof. dr. E.V. Tolstoj and dr. S. Sremac
- Language: english
- ECTS: 6
- Academic skill: Discipline related
- Start date: Period 2
- End date: Period 2
- Graduate School: FRT
- Self paced: no
- Discipline: Religion and Theology
- Available to: PhD students VU
- In class/online: In class
- Including assessment: yes
- With certificate: no
- Grading will be based on a group presentation (50%) and a final essay
(50%). Group presentations are on trauma case studies that are chosen,
prepared and presented in groups of maximum 5 people. The final
(individual) essay will focus on a specific phenomenon/traumatic
experience in relation to a specific theological/religious issue.
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Course Description & Study Characteristics
Course Description
Course Objective
The aims of the course are that the student:
• Can analyze how religion and trauma interact, and how that impacts individuals and communities on the one hand and our religious, philosophical and theological perceptions and doctrines on the other hand.
• Can analyze positive and negative contributions of religion in coping with trauma in individual life-stories using coping and trauma theory.
• Can evaluate the theological/religious complexity of trauma and is able to reflect hermeneutically on those complexities.
• Is able to communicate in a religious/theological adequate way on the theme of religion and trauma.
• Is able to analyze and critically evaluate new contributions of religion in dealing and coping with trauma and reflect on them and on his/her/their own professional approaches in this field and to determine which elements require further personal development of competencies.
Course Content
This course deals with different forms of trauma (political, domestic, sexual, natural disaster, illness) and their relation to religion. The course focuses on the power of the ‘ordinary’, ‘everydayness’, and ‘embodiment’ (lived religion) as key to exploring the intersection of trauma and the everyday reality of religion. We will address theories of traumatization and reflect on the age-old role of religion in coping and living with trauma, as well as the fundamental questions of (theological) anthropology: the nature of being human.
Additional Information Teaching Methods
Seminar
Study Characteristics
- Name of teacher: prof. dr. E.V. Tolstoj and dr. S. Sremac
- Language: english
- ECTS: 6
- Academic skill: Discipline related
- Start date: Period 2
- End date: Period 2
- Graduate School: FRT
- Self paced: no
- Discipline: Religion and Theology
- Available to: PhD students VU
- In class/online: In class
- Including assessment: yes
- With certificate: no
- Grading will be based on a group presentation (50%) and a final essay
(50%). Group presentations are on trauma case studies that are chosen,
prepared and presented in groups of maximum 5 people. The final
(individual) essay will focus on a specific phenomenon/traumatic
experience in relation to a specific theological/religious issue.