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Root number
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485208 |
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Semester
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HS2025 |
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Type of course
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Seminar |
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Allocation to subject
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Theology |
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Type of exam
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| Title |
Postsecular Lab: What changes if religions stay? |
| Description |
In Israel and in the current Middle East conflict, the (political) importance of religious traditions has grown in many parts of the world. At the same time, the large traditional religious communities in Europe are continuing to lose members. Secularization is progressin here, whereby it is particularly European thinkers who see themselves as secular who have increasingly turned to religions and the dialectic of the secular in recent years.
In view of this contradictory situation, the term "post-secular" takes on an important contemporary diagnostic power: it helps us to shed light on a tense present and ask questions that concern us in Europe in particular:
Is secularization a European aberration that has for a time been confused with a global development? Is a secular understanding really neutral in terms of religion, or is it closer to Christianity? Is the relativization of the secular an expression of a necessary decolonization of a Western self-image, or does it call into question an inescapable Western identity? What consequences does the relativization of the secular have for global politics and interreligious relations? In short, what will change if religions remain?
These questions will also be explored in the second Postsecular Lab in the fall semester of 2024. This is a new type of teaching format that is both theoretical and practice-oriented. It is experimental and inter- and transdisciplinary in nature. In small groups, students independently invite experts from different subject areas to examine and explore post-secular issues from different thematic perspectives. They develop the questions, conduct the interview in the form of a podcast and prepare the results for the interrelblog (https://interrelblog.unibe.ch/?page_id=43).
The Postsecular Lab is a new type of course funded by FIL_FLE (Förderung Innovative Lehre - Fakultäre Lehrentwicklung) and organized by Prof. Dr. Luca Di Blasi, Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Systematic Theology. The first "season" started in the fall semester 2023 and was very well received by the students (best faculty student evaluation of the semester: 5.94): |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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| Lecturers |
Prof. Dr.
Luca Daniele Di Blasi, Institut für Systematische Theologie - Dozentur Religionsphilosophie ✉
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ECTS
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4 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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Yes |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Monday 10:15-12:00 Weekly
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| Students please consult the detailed view for complete information on dates, rooms and planned podcasts. |
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