Universität Wien

240118 SE Reading French Anthropology of Religion: a Critical Presentation, from Durkheim to Bourdieu (P2) (2013S)

(with an Italian counterpoint)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Compulsory attendance in the first unit!

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 40 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Montag 29.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 30.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 02.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Freitag 03.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Montag 06.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Dienstag 07.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Mittwoch 08.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Freitag 10.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The objective of this course is to present and discuss the works of French anthropologists on religion from Durkheim to Bourdieu. At the beginning of the XXth century, religion became the focus of the French School of Sociology, a discipline which was not separated from anthropology by Durkheim and his followers. The common thread of the eight lectures composing the course is the critical examination of the metamorphosis of the notion of sacred. As a theoretical counterpoint, the anthropology of religion of the Italian Ernesto De Martino will also be discussed.

Program:
Emile Durkheim, the sacred and the profane
Marcel Mauss , magic, sacrifice and prayer
Michel Leiris, the ethnography of self and the ordinary sacred
Roger Caillois, the myth and the sacred
Roger Bastide, Afro-America: the dynamics of religion
Claude Levi-Strauss, symbolic efficacy, Totemism and religion
Pierre Bourdieu, from the demon of analogy to the theory of the religious field
Ernesto De Martino (an Italian counterpoint): the magical world and the crisis of presence

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

The course is based on two books published by Erwan Dianteill and Michael Löwy:
-(avec Michael Löwy) Sociologie et religion II Approches dissidentes. Paris, PUF, collection «Sociologie d’aujourd’hui», 2006, 188 p. Spanish translation (Manantial, Buenos Aires, 2009)
-(with Michael Löwy) Sociologie et religion III Approches insolites. Paris, PUF, collection «Sociologie d’aujourd’hui», 2009, 183 p. Spanish translation (Editorial de la Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, MX, 2013).
See also: (with Francis Affergan), revue L’Année sociologique, 2012 (2), dossier: Sociologie et anthropologie. Avril 2012, and Dianteill, Erwan, ed., Marcel Mauss, l’anthropologie de l’un et du multiple, Paris, PUF, 2013, particularly the chapter by E. Dianteill entitled «De la magie dans le don - retour sur Mauss, Lévi-Strauss et Godelier».

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:39