Lesson plan / RELIGION, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT

Lesson Information

Course Credit 3.0
Course ECTS Credit 3.0
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course University Elective
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? G
Course Coordinator Assist. Prof. Dr. RAMAZAN KURTOĞLU
Instructor (s) Assist. Prof. Dr. RAMAZAN KURTOĞLU
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The course aims to develop, to consolidate and to encourage the practice students' analytical thinking skills.
Course Content The content of the course is to analyze the different hypothesis arguing that there is a conditional relationship in between religion and development.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introduction.
2Defining Religion.
3Theories of Relgions.
4Philosophical Speculatins on Religions
5Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Theories
6Religious Theories of Religions
7Ancient Religions
8African Traditions
9Western Religious Traditions
10Eastern Traditions
11Religion and Development. Futuwwa and Ahi Organization.
12Tawney and the Religions and the Rise of Capitalism. Weber and the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
13Roper and the Crisis of the Seventeenth Century.
14Neo-Capitalism and Religions

Resources

OXTOBY Willard G. (edt.), World Religions: Eastern Traditions, Oxford University Press, Toronto,1996.



LUDWİG Theodore M., The Sacred Paths of the West, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1994.



TAWNEY R. H., The Religion and the Rise of Capitalism: A historical Study, UML, Michigan, 2005.



WEBER, Max., The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, (by) Talcot Parson, Routledge, London, 2001.



ROPER, Hugh, Trevor., The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Religion, The Reformation and Social Change, Liberty Fund İnc, İndianapolis, 1967.