Universität Wien

010105 VO Animism (2024W)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 1 - Katholische Theologie
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Tu 17.12. 18:30-20:00 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG

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Details

Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 01.10. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Tuesday 08.10. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Tuesday 22.10. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Tuesday 29.10. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Tuesday 05.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Tuesday 12.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Tuesday 19.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Tuesday 26.11. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Tuesday 03.12. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Tuesday 10.12. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Tuesday 07.01. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Tuesday 14.01. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG
  • Tuesday 21.01. 18:30 - 20:00 Seminarraum 5 (Kath) Schenkenstraße 1.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Content
• Modernist animism
• Neo-animism
• Animism and shamanism
• Animism and environment
• Animism and folk religion
• Dolls and animism
• Animism and popular culture

Assessment and permitted materials


Final exam (100%)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria


Being prepared for the class by reading the materials that would be provided.

Examination topics

• Modernist animism
• Neo-animism
• Animism and shamanism
• Animism and environment
• Animism and folk religion
• Dolls and animism
• Animism and popular culture

Reading list

Bird-David, Nurit. 1999. “Animism Revisited: Personhood, Environment, and Relational Epistemology. “Current anthropology, 40(S1), pp.S67-S91.

Tylor, Edward Burnett. 1958. Religion in Primitive Culture. Harper Torchbooks.

Guthrie, Stewart Elliot. 1995. Faces in the clouds: A New Theory of Religion. Oxford University Press.

Harvey, Graham. 2005. Animism: Respecting the Living World. New York: Columbia University Press.

Harvey Graham.2014. The Handbook of Contemporary Animism. New York: Routledge.

Ingold, Tim. 2006. Rethinking the Animate, Re-animating thought. Ethnos, 71(1), pp.9-20.

Association in the course directory

066 800: M3; M16; 033 195: BRP 16rwb (statt VO Aufbaukurs Philosophische Anthropologie)

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