• Institute for the Study of Religion
• Regulations
• General assumptions.
• Rules of course choice and crediting.
• Failure in completion of academic year.
• Repetition of academic year.
• Conditional enrollment.
• Student’s leave.
• Taking off the student’s list.
• Reactivating of student’s status.
• Seminar and master’s thesis.
• Tutoring.
• Introduction of new courses.
• Programme Committee.
• Dailly studies Syllabus
• History of religion block (A)
• Phenomenology of religion block (B)
• Sociology of Religion block (C)
• Psychology of religion block (D)
• Philosophy of religion block (E)
• History of Christianity block (F)
• Prerequisites block (G)
• Other courses
• Foreign Languages
• Master degree seminars

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION

The Institute for the Study of Religion was established in 1974, on the foundation of the existing post-graduate complementary philosophical and religious studies offered to school teachers and other interested in the subject matter. In 1980 the five year regular M. A. degree studies were founded; since 1994 also the extra-mural (weekend based) studies have been run. Up till now it is the only one institution in Poland educating M. A. students in the domain of the study of religion. Our students are granted M. A. diploma in culture sciences with the study of religion as a specjal subject. They have also an opportunity to receive a pedagogical complementary specialisation, according to the contemporary acts operative in Poland, attending courses run jointly with the Pedagogical Department. The Institute is also a base for Ph. D. students, completing their degree on four-year doctoral studies within the Faculty. We also offer a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D) in the study of religion to qualified candidates. The Philosophical Faculty, of which part our Institute consists, has also a statutory right to promote Ph. D. and assistant professor (habilitation) degrees in the study of religion. We are both a teaching and a research institution. In teaching, we provide the full range of courses on the theories of religion, the present status of the world religions, including religions and new religious movements in Poland, the history of Christianity (churches and thought), philosophy of religion, sociology of religion, psychology of religion, religious ethnology and geography of religion. Our research represents many fields of religious studies and many methodological approaches, from the humanistic to the naturalistic within the comparative study of religions, philosophy of religion, mysticism, changes in the religious mentality of Polish society, ethnology of religion, psychology of religion and history of Christian thought. We organize scientific conferences and provide “Studia Religiologica” and “Nomos; A Study of Religion Quarterly”scientific journals. Members of our faculty publish books and papers in national and intenational scientific journals.

In the academic year 1998/99 there were 212 regular and 208 extra-mural students in the Institute. 16 of them defended their M. A. thesis succesfully. We have also 16 doctoral students.

Daily-time students can obtain social and scientific students grants and a place in a students hostel, partly refunded by the University. The amount depends on their family situation according to the general university rules. The scientific grant amount depends on the students notes in the previous academic year. First-year students cannot achieve scientific grants. No grants are disposed to the extra-mural students. Tuition is charged only for the extra-mural studies.

Institute for the Study of Religion employs 4 people in the office and the library and 23 people of the scientific staff: 5 professors, 3 assistant professors and 15 doctors. They are working in 4 departments: Department of the History and Phenomenology of Religion, Department of the Philosophy of Religion, Deparment of the Psychology and Sociology of Religin, Department of the History of Christianity, and Documentation Centre of Religious Minorities in Contemporary Poland (Pracownia Dokumentacji i Badań Wyznań we Współczesnej Polsce). Its library, situated in the Collegium Broscianum (Grodzka 52 street), has collected more than 30 000 scientific books collection. Institute is situated at Rynek Główny 34, 2nd floor. The secretary office (room 4) deals with all students affairs, including enrollment and student exchange.

ECTS IN THE INSTITE FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION

Our Institute cooperates with other universities in Poland and abroad as well in the domain of student exchange. The exchange is based on the ECTS standards. Both, the incomming and outcoming students should have their credits transferred according to the thumb rule: 1 our credit point = 1,5 ECTS credit (in the courses description the ECTS credits appear in brackets). We especially welcome the religious studies and other similiar disciplines students. In other cases students’ credits will also be transferred but they will be recognised as “external” ones. The Instite ECTS Coordinator is in charge of the credits qualification and transferring. In the following year dr. Andrzej Szyjewski acts as the ECTS Coordinator.

REGULATIONS OF STUDIES.

I General assumptions.

The programme proposed aims at:

• Giving students the possibility to influence their own intellectual development through choice of optional courses,
• Reducing vagueness of particular courses,
• Introducing courses directly connected with research programmes of the Institute staff,
• Extending the co-operation between staff and students through introduction of tutoring.

1. Programme of studies proposed has the nature of individual study programme. Students have the possibility to choose courses among those proposed in Institute’s catalogue and partly outside the Institute. The Institute is obliged to propose revised catalogue of courses every year. When less than four students show interest, course is not run. When number of students showing interest is too big, the person responsible for the course can select the group on the basis of qualifying test and limit the group size (information about limits and form of selection should be included in course description).
2. Courses are organised in groups: compulsory (basic courses and their prerequisites) and specialistic, where basic courses are prerequisites for specialistic ones. Completion of the prerequisites is the necessary condition for completion of courses with prerequisites. All courses proposed within the Institute, except for monograph lectures, must be credited on the basis of examination marked according to the system of marking.
3. All Institute’s courses are divided into thematic field categories. Students must earn 12 credit points or minimum three courses from each of the following thematic areas (blocks): phenomenology of religion, sociology of religion, philosophy of religion, psychology of religion, history of Christianity, and six different courses from the area of history of religion. Number of courses offered by the Institute departments should at least double the required minimum.
4. The following courses are compulsory (canonical): Psychology of Religion, Sociology of Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Ancient and Medieval Christianity, Modern and Contemporary Christianity, Structure of the Sacred, Geography of Religion, Politology of Religion, Ethnology of Religion. Completion of those courses is the precondition for being allowed to defend Master’s thesis.
5. Student must also complete five out of seven courses from the field of history of religion: Religions of the Ancient Near East I, Religions of the Ancient Near East II, Islam (Introduction), Religion of Pre-Christian Europe, Hinduism and Buddhism, Religions of the Far East, Religions of Pre-Columbian America.
6. Student can receive teacher’s qualifications after completion of Pedagogical Studium.
7. Basically courses are one-semester-long units of 60 teaching hours (30 hours of lectures and 30 hours of classes) credited with 4 credit points. Courses can be longer or shorter with proportionally less or more credit points allocated. Programme Committee decides about credit points allocated to a particular course. Completion of both lecture and classes is the necessary condition for receiving credit points for a certain course. Completion of master degree seminar equals 4 credit points for each semester of the seminar.
8. Students can earn maximum 9 credit points for participation in research (scientific) camps.
9. Except for foreign languages, course completion is checked every academic year. The programme of studies is designed so that students earn certain amount of credit points each academic year: they must have 40 credit points collected after the first year of studies, 80 credit points after the second year, 124 credit points after the third year, 164 after the fourth year and 186 after the final year of studies. Student may be allowed to earn credit points quicker and reduce amount of work load during following years of studies. Such changes must be negotiated and accepted by the tutor.
10. Students can earn up to 33 credit points (for no more than 8 courses) outside the Institute. Credit points for such courses must be accepted by the tutor in agreement with the Programme Committee.
11. Students must complete foreign language courses according to University regulations. They are obliged to complete English course and one of languages linked to certain religious tradition (for example Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit). Credit points for language courses are checked and added after the third year of studies (12 credit points for compulsory six semesters of English and 2 credit points for each semester of the second language completed with the examination). Student can also pass language exam without attending any courses, it must be done before the end of the first year of studies. Credit points for language courses extending the compulsory limit are treated as credits for courses outside the Institute.
12. Students are obliged to present their student’s registration books (indeks) to the Institute’s Office by the 30^th of September.
13. Students who apply for scholarships are obliged to complete all chosen courses by the end of repeat examination session.
14. Examination results (marks) do not influence number of credit points awarded. Results of all exams are registered in a student’s registration book. Average mark is calculated by taking into account all courses taken during academic year except for monographic lectures, language courses and research (scientific) camps.
15. Students must take exams during the examination session. All cases of absence without justification result in losing the first attempt to the exam without possibility to take first attempt exam once again.
16. Students can be allowed to take exam after examination session only with the permission of the Director for Student’s Affairs.
17. Application for such permission must be submitted not later than 7 days after examination session.
18. Student failing the exam has the right to take one repeat exam.
19. In justifiable cases, when the repeat exam is failed, student can apply for or the Director for Student’s Affairs on his/her own can decide to organise the third so called ‘commission exam’.
20. Such examination must be organised within the period of 10 days after the repeat examination.
21. If student wishes, the examination board can include Student’s Council representative as an observer.
22. If student fails the ‘ commission examination’, the Director for Student’s Affairs together with the tutor can decide about repetition of academic year or apply to the Dean of the Faculty to take student’s name off the student’s list.
23. Students are obliged to complete all courses declared ( even if the number of credit points which have already been collected exceeds required minimum for a certain academic year).
24. Students are obliged to attend classes of physical education according to University regulations.
25. It is a rule to complete winter examination session by the 30^th of March and summer examination session by the end of September repeat session. In case of students’ illness which lasts for the whole examination session and is justified with doctor’s opinion, student must complete all courses and pass all exams in a fortnight after the examination session.
26. Students are obliged to choose courses for the next academic year by 30^th of June. That rule applies to all courses including master degree seminars. Students who fail to do so may be taken off the student’s list. Students whose choice was not accepted ( because various reason such as cancellation of the course, big number of applications etc.) may choose additional courses by 15^th of October ( winter semester courses) or by the end of winter examination session ( courses run during summer semester). Students of the first year must declare their choice by the 15^th of October. In justifiable cases ( cancellation of courses or their prerequisites, change in location and time of courses, difficulties in timetable of students studying in two Institutes, etc.) it is possible to change the list of declared courses by the end of the third week of the academic year. Final choice of master degree seminar must take place by the end of October for students of the fourth year and by the end of previous June for students of the final year of studies. Changes of master degree seminar are possible only with a permission of the Director for Student’s Affairs.
27. The Director for Student’s Affairs has the right to decide individually in all difficult cases concerning completion of certain academic year.

1. Student of the first year of studies who fails to complete required courses is taken off the student’s list by the Dean of the Faculty.
2. Students of higher years of studies who fail to complete the required courses can be :

• Allowed to repeat the given year of studies ( the Director for Student’s Affairs decides ),
• Taken off the student’s list (the Dean of the Faculty decides ).

1. Student can be allowed to repeat the academic year once during his/her studies. It can happen more than once only because of long illness or other justifiable reasons.
2. Repeating the year, students have to repeat all courses which have been marked below grade 4 ( good ).
3. In justifiable cases the Director for Student’s Affairs can recognise courses with mark 3 ( pass ).

1. If student fails to complete one course only and one exam from the previous academic year, the Director for Student’s Affairs can decide to let him/her start the next year of studies, on condition that the missing course and exam will be completed.
2. In case of long illness such conditional acceptance can happen even when two courses were not completed.
3. A/ Conditional enrollment for student who has failed repeat examination can be granted only after the decision giving the right to take the ‘commission examination’.

 

 

B/ Student who fails the first exam and does not take the repeat exam because of justifiable reason, can take this exam only once when being conditionally enrolled.

C/ Student who does not take the first exam as well as repeat exam because of long illness or other justifiable reason has the right to take the exam twice( the first and the repeat exam).

D/ In both cases (b, c) student who fails the exam has the right to apply for ‘commission examination’.

4. If student fails to fulfil the terms of conditional enrollment by the end of October of the next academic year the Director for Student’s Affairs can make him/her repeat the year or apply to the Dean to take student off the student’s list.
5. If during the period of conditional enrollment student has to be taken to hospital for more than 7 days, the Director for Student’s Affairs can extend the period of conditional enrollment till the end of November.
6. If, because of nature of the course or for organisational reason, it is impossible to complete the missing course by the end of October, students can be allowed to complete the course during the next academic year. Conditions of such agreement are formulated by the Director for Student’s Affairs together with the decision about conditional enrollment.
7. Student enrolled conditionally has no right to scholarships or other forms of financial aid.

1. Students can take a short-term or a long-term leave.
2. Leave can be granted only in case of: long illness proven with the certificate issued by special commission of university health services, period of studies abroad, delivering a baby and maternity leave or necessity to take care of a child, difficult life situation with the necessity to undertake work, other justifiable reasons preventing student from participation in classes.
3. Leave can be granted only by the Dean of the Faculty.
4. Leave periods must be registered in student’s book.
5. It is not possible to grant a leave for the lasting semester during the examination session.
6. Total period of leave granted during studies must not exceed 12 months. In justifiable cases the Rector of the University can agree to grant longer leave.
7. During the leave student retains all student’s rights except for the right to financial aid.
8. During the leave student, by agreement with the Director for Student’s Affairs, can take part in classes and take exams

1. Except for situations already described in regulations, student can be taken off the student’s list for absence in more than three classes without justification.
2. Student can be taken off the list for not choosing courses for the next academic year by end of required terms.
3. Only the Dean of the Faculty has the right to take the student off the student’s list.
4. Such decision should have a written form and must include reason for taking the student off the list together with the information about the right to appeal to the Rector of the University.

1. A person who stopped studies or was taken off the student’s list during the first year of studies can only be accepted again after undergoing the normal recruitment procedure.
2. Students of the second and higher years can apply to the Dean for reactivating of their student’s status not earlier than 12 months after being taken off the student’s list.
3. When the student applies for reactivating after the period of more than five years from the date of being taken from the list, he/she must undergo the normal recruitment procedure unless the Dean decides differently.
4. If a student was taken off the list for not completing the year, being reactivated he/she cannot repeat the academic year.

1. Students of the fourth year have to take part in master degree seminar. Conditions of completion the seminar and its prerequisites are defined by the professor responsible for the seminar.
2. In some cases students of the third year can be allowed to take part in such a seminar. However it must be accepted by the Institute Board and the professor conferring the degree.
3. After the first year of master degree seminar students are obliged to submit a written account of their research.
4. Students must choose the seminar by the 30^th of June( for students of the fourth year the deadline is 30^th of October, for students of the last year 30^th of June of the previous academic year).
5. Students can change the seminar only after consultation and positive decision of the Director for Student’s Affairs.
6. During the fifth year of studies, professor conferring the degree takes the role of tutor for his/her students.
7. Student is obliged to submit master’s thesis not later than by the end of summer examination session of the fifth year of his/her studies.
8. The Dean of the Faculty can agree to prolong that deadline for three months in the following cases:

• Long illness proven with the certificate from university health service,
• Obstacles beyond student’s control hindering the process of collecting research data or literature. In such cases student has to apply to the Dean before the deadline ( see 7 ).

1. Master’s thesis has to be assessed by the professor conferring the degree and the reviewer appointed by the Director for Student’s Affairs.
2. Both assessments have to be written and they are attached to student’s files.
3. Review of master’s thesis has to be delivered 5 days before the date of defence of thesis at the latest.
4. Student receives master degree after the defence of the thesis. This must take place not later than 3 months after the dissertation is submitted, for those students who have submitted thesis before the end of summer examination session; or by the end of October for those who have submitted thesis during the repeat session in September.
5. If the student does not take final examination defending his/her thesis without justification or fails to defend the thesis, the Director for Student’s Affairs fixes the second date of defence. It has to be the date at least one month after the first term but not later than three months from the first one.

Only independent researchers among the Institute staff can play the role of a tutor.

In justifiable cases other members of the Institute can become tutors and play such a role under control of the head of their departments. Member of the Institute has no right to refuse being a tutor. Each tutor can have up to 10 students assigned. All students of the first year are assigned to tutors without much possibility of choice. During the fifth year of studies the professor conferring the degree becomes the tutor. After completion of academic year students can change tutors.

Tutors are obliged to:

• Help students with the course choice, assessing student’s choices on the basis of their coherence with the programme of studies,
• give advice during fixed periods of time,
• Monitor student’s development.

Author of the course submits the proposal for the next academic year to the Programme Committee:

• By the 15^th of April – general description of the course, requirements and prerequisites,
• By the 15^th of May – detailed programme with the full list of literature for students.
• If the course is submitted later than that ( for example supplementary course ) it can be accepted but will be included into the group of ‘other courses’.

XII Programme Committee.

Institute Board sets the procedure of Programme Committee appointment. The Committee consists of : the Director of Institute for Programme Affairs, representatives of all departments and two representatives of students.

The Committee is the responsible for:

• Consulting and co-ordinating of courses proposed,
• Deciding, together with the authors of courses, about the final form of the course ( lecture, class, seminar), number of credit points allocated and the position of the course within the structure of the programme,
• Presenting the complete catalogue of courses for the next academic year by the end of May.
• Announcing the second term of course choice together with the supplementary catalogue by the 30^th of September.

The Programme Committee also controls the programme and solves conflicts concerning courses.

Note: Number of points given in the catalogue for example 6 ( 9 ECTS ) mean: 6- number of points according to the existing system, 9- ECTS points.

History of religion block (A)

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religions of the Ancient Near East I: Egypt, Mesopotamy, Iran
course director: Wiesław Bator/Tomasz Sikora/Sławomir Lippki
course code: A/01
prerequisites: G/03 - Ancient and Early Medieval Civilisations
classification: Basic course
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Presentation of the Near East religions basic elements (e.g. cult centres, pantheons, cosmogonies, mythology, cult organising) in the background of the cultural and geographical conditions (geography of the region, history of Near Eastern studies, chronology, languages, writings, genetical associations).
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religions of the Ancient Near East II: Anatolia, Western Semits, Judaism
course director: Kazimierz Banek
course code: A/02
prerequisites: G/03 - Ancient and Early Medieval Civilisations
classification: Basic course
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Presentation of three major elements of the ancient Anatolian (Hittite, Frigian, Lidian) religions: doctrine, cult and organisation. Doctrine, cult and organisation of Judaism. History of Judaism: the role of Moses and prophets; biblical Judaism; talmudic era. General characteristics of the Western Semitic religions. Analysis of the main source texts,
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + essay + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Islam (introduction)
course director: Elżbieta Wnuk-Lisowska
course code: A/03
prerequisites: G/03 - Ancient and Early Medieval Civilisations
classification: Basic course
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 3 (4.5 ECTS)
description: Establishing of Islam. Situation in the Near East; first period of Muhammad prophetic activities, Holy Quran rules, its genesis, other faith sources.
form of credit: oral exam
Course under guidance of ass. prof. Łukasz Trzciński

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religions of the Pre-Christian Europe
course director: Kazimierz Banek/Kazimiera Mikoś
course code: A/04
prerequisites: G/03 - Ancient and Early Medieval Civilisations
classification: Basic course
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: General outlook of the religions of Europe, beginning from the oldest evidence of beliefs in the paleolithic monuments, until christianisation times. Outline of the Indoeuropean (Greek, Roman, Celtic, German, Slavonic, Baltic) and non-Indoeuropean (Etrusqian, Basquian, Ugrofinnic) religions. Analysis of the main source texts.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + essay + exam
form of credit: exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Hinduism and Buddhism
course director: Małgorzata Sacha-Piekło/Łukasz Trzciński
course code: A/05
prerequisites: G/03 - Ancient and Early Medieval Civilisations
classification: Basic course
number of hours: 120
semester: winter + summer
course form: lecture + class
credits: 8 (11 ECTS)
description:Survey of the major religious occurences in India (hinduism), in the historical and philosophical context. Wedic period, Sutras, classical hinduism, Indian reneissance. The special emphasis is put the basics of Hindu pantheon (symbols and main features, mythological motifs), sacred scriptures and peculiarities of cult forms. Course offers also an introduction into the primeval buddhism (Buddha’s life and teachings, primeval sangha, formation of canon annd spreading of religion), Hinayana, Mahayana, Tibetan, Chinese and Japanese buddhism; Western buddhism. Philosophical thought of buddhist tradition and specific schools; varieties of its forms: canon, meditation and cult.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + essay + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religions of the Far East
course director: Kazimierz Banek
course code: A/06
prerequisites: G/03 - Ancient and Early Medieval Civilisations
classification: Basic course
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Traditional beliefs in China (Shang-Yin and Zhou period): doctrine, cult and organisation. Confucianism as either religion or philosophical and political system. Evolution of Confucianism. Taoism: its philosophical and religious layers; main texts (Daode-jing, Zhuang-zi), Jixia school, conception of dao. Doctrine, cult and organisation in Shinto. Evolution of Shinto, Fokko-Shinto, 19-th century sects, State Shinto. Analysis of the main source texts.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + essay + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religions of Pre-Columbian America
course director: Kazimiera Mikoś
course code: A/07
prerequisites: G/04 - Medieval and Modern Civilisations
classification: Basic course
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Religions of the three great Pre-columbian civilisations: Mayan, Aztec and Inca. Beliefs of antecendant peoples, from which those civiliations took their cultural heritage, Precolumbian relicts in the modern catholicism of the Mexican and Peruvian Indians.
form of credit: exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religion of the Ancient Egypt
course director: Wiesław Bator
course code: A/08
prerequisites: A/01 - Religions of the Ancient Near East I
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: Place of the Ancient Eypt among World’s religions. Special features of the Egyptian religion. Continuity and change in the history of Egyptian religion. The core of the trifunctional conception in the thought of Ancient Egypt (analogies between being, personality and society). Reception of religious ideas: reception of Egyptian religion in other cultures. Influence of the Egyptian religion on Western culture: Greco-Latin, Judaism, Christianity, barbaricum, esoteric movements. Polish studies on the Egyptian religion. Controversial issues: genesis of the ecological and progressive ideologies in the scope of Egyptian culture genesis; problem of Evil in Egyptian Religion; coincidencies between Egyptian religion and Far Eastern ideas (Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism).
methods of evaluation: oral colloquium or an essay (optional)
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Gnosis and Gnostics
course director: Stanisław Cinal/Izabela Trzcińska
course code: A/10
prerequisites: G/01 - Introduction into the Study of Religion + G/03 - Ancient and Early Medieval Civilisation
classification: Facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Analysis of the written sources, especially Mandean; history of researching (Nag Hammadi findings). Gnostic doctrine: dualism in cosmogony and anthropology, soteriology and aschatology. The history of gnosis, especially its oriental beginnings. Manicheism, Mandeans - modern gnostics.
form of credit: Oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Eschatology in Zoroastrianism and in Old Testament
course director: Stanisław Cinal
course code: A/11
prerequisites: A/02 - Religions of the Ancient Near East II
classification: Facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: Chronology of the Zoroastrian and Biblical writings. Belief in the Judgement and the posthumous sanction in Zoroastrianism and the Old Testament. Zoroastrian heaven and hell or Biblical Sheol. Belief in Resurrection, Last Judgement and the end of the world. Influence of Zoroastrian eschatology on the Biblical one.
form of credit: oral exam
Attention! This course is being run every two years alternately with A/12: The Storm God in the Ancient Near East

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Culture and Philosophy of Islam
course director: Elżbieta Wnuk-Lisowska
course code: A/14
prerequisites: A/03 Islam (Introduction)
classification: Facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter + summer
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: The notion of God and God’s name in the different schools of Islamithought (Sufism), the value and importance of the word. The schools of Islam thought from the beginning until modern times. Persian Islam: seven-, nine- and twelfimamic Shi’ism and its connections with Zoroastrianism. Muslim sects, Sufism. Philosophy of islam: Ibn’Arabi theories (5 stages of being, Absolute, difference between man, saint and prophet); opinions and activities of al-Ghazali, al-Halajj. Persian thinkers: Suhravardi and his philosophy of Lightness, isfahan shaikhinic and Sazawari schools. Law schools of Islam, organisation of the society, functions of calif and cadi. The art of Islam.
form of credit: oral exam.
Course under guidance of ass. prof. Łukasz Trzciński

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Iranian cosmology
course director: Elżbieta Wnuk-Lisowska
course code: A/15
prerequisites: A/01 - Religions of the Ancient Near East I
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: lecture
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: Iranian cosmology in the scope of Awesta and Bundahishn. Zoroastrism and Mithraism in the scope of Middle-Persian sources.
methods of evaluation: colloquium
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religions and World-Outlooks of the Eurasian Pastoral Peoples
course director: Wiesław Bator
course code: A/19
prerequisites: G/02 - Ethnology of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: World-outlook in the Eurasian peoples mythologies: Preindoeuropean, Iranian, Mongol, Turkish and Ural. Understanding of pastoral cultures religions; general shamanic doctrines and their environmental variants.
methods of evaluation: oral colloquium or an essay (optional)
form of credit: valued credit
Attention! Course is being run every two years, alternately with A/18 - Prehistorical religions

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Hungarian Mythology
course director: Wiesław Bator
course code: A/20
prerequisites: A/04 Religions of the Prechristian Europe
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: Presentation of the main motifs of the Hungarian mythology, as preserved in the historical or ethnographic sources, as well as in the literature. The aim of the course is to find the specific mythologisation of the historical events in an isolated culture.
methods of evaluation: oral colloquium or an essay (optional)
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Shamanism
course director: Andrzej Szyjewski
course code: A/21
prerequisites: G/02 - Ethnology of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: An analysis of the phenomenon of shamanism, seen from the geographical (as the main factor in the Sibirian religions, so called “proper shamanism”), as well as from the phenomenological perspective (shamanism as an universal current in the history of religions) in both - diachronical and synchronical aspects. Archeological evidence of the Upper paleolithic shamanism. The shaman figure, his/her curriculum vitae and social functions. Shamanic intiaition, an analysis of an ecstasy and the role of the hallucinogenes in culture; shamanic rituals. Siberian shamanism’s symbols, anthropology and cosmology. Neoshamanism and New Age. Course members should get acquianted with factographical knowledge of the Sibirian shamanism (lectures) and one choosen culture (classes). English or Russian knowledge required
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: oral exam
Attention! Course is being run every four years, alternately with: A/22 Religions of Australia and Oceania, A/23 Religions of the Black Africa, A/24 Religions of the American Indians. The next planned course time is year 2002/3

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religions of Australia and Oceania
course director: Andrzej Szyjewski
course code: A/22
prerequisites: G/02 - Ethnology of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: An outline of Oceania inhabitation, culture levels. The role of the Sacred in Australian Aboriginal life: Atjiranga, landscape, myth, ritual, churingas. Totemic systems in Australia. Life cycle: conception, birth, tribal and later initiations, death and afterlife. Main rituals. Sorcery. Religions of Melanesia: the issue of mana; Supreme Being, ancestors, culture heroes; duk-duk and other secret societies. Religions of Polynesia: cosmogonical myth, great gods (atua), Maui as a culture hero, mythological journey in the scope of the space sacralisation, tapu principle, Arioi society, priests (tohunga), kava ceremony, sacred architecture. The course members should get aquianted with factographical knowledge (lectures) and the source text analysis (classes).
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: oral exam
Attention! Course is being run every four years, alternately with: A/21 Shamanism, A/23 Religions of the Black Africa, A/24 Religions of the American Indians. The next planned course time is year 2003/4

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religions of the Black Africa
course director: Andrzej Szyjewski
course code: A/23
prerequisites: G/02 - Ethnology of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Culture areas in Africa. The common features of the African religions. Religious sytems of the hunting-gathering societies: Pigmies, Bushmen, Hotentots. Bantu religions: category of power (molimo), time, Supreme Being, the ancestors cult, relations to the earth, cosmogonical mythology. Magic on the Azande example. Pantheons and kings in Guinea Bay societies. Esoteric systems of Dogon and Bambara, African secret societies. Pastoral peoples religion: Maasai, Nuer, Dinka, Shilluk. The religious change: Islam and Christianity expansion. New African Religions. The course members should get aquianted with factographical knowledge (lectures) and the source text analysis (classes).
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: oral exam
Attention! Course is being run every four years, alternately with: A/21 Shamanism, A/22 Religions of /australia and oceania, A/24 Religions of the American Indians. The next planned course time is year 2000/1

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religions of the American Indians
course director: Andrzej Szyjewski
course code: A/24
prerequisites: G/02 - Ethnology of religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Traditional religions of North and South American Indians (exluding Precolumbian civilisations). Religious life of the hunting-gathering societies (Tierra del Fuego, California); specialised hunters of the North-Western Pacific Coast (the salmon culture) and Preria (the buffalo culture). Transitory religions of Huichol and Mazatecs. Religions of the digging societies in Amasonia (Watunna cycle, Tucano religion) and Antilles; religions of the Great Lakes horticulturalists. Ritual cycles and mythology of Pueblo (Papago, Pima, Hopi, Zuni, Navaho). Araukarian (Mapuche) religion. Establishing of the new religious movements among Preria Indians. The course members should get aquianted with factographical knowledge (lectures) and the source text analysis (classes).
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: oral exam
Attention! Course is being run every four years, alternately with: A/21 Shamanism, A/22 Religions of Australia and Oceania, A/23 Religions of the Black Africa. The next planned course time is year 2001/2

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religious Ideas in the Ancient Egyptian Literature
course director: Wiesław Bator
course code: A/25
prerequisites: A/08 - Religions of the Ancient Egypt
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: Influence of ethical notions and religious ideas over the Ancient Egyptian customs and everyday life, as reflected in their literature and other documents. Presentation of the spectre of religious doctrines in Ancient Egypt: its cosmology, cosmogony, antropology and eschatology. Deepening of the student knowledge in the Egyptian culture and expanding their ability to analyse written sources.
methods of evaluation: oral colloquium or an essay (optional)
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Siddha - the Myth of an Perfect Being
course director: Małgorzata Sacha-Piekło
course code: A/26
prerequisites: A/05 - Hinduism and Buddhism
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: The course subject is an liberation of an human being from the wheel of suffering. Yogin, as “liberated during the life period”, can incarnate an idea of the human condition transgressing in the best mood. Traditions presented during the course are mostly of Hindu and Buddhist origin.
methods of evaluation: an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religions of the Antic (Greece, Rome)
course director: Kazimierz Banek
course code: A/27
prerequisites: A/04 - Religions of the Prechristian Europe
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Doctrine, cult and organisation within the Ancient Greek religion; its levels: Minoan/Mycenian, Archaic (Homer, Hesiod) and Classic. Doctrine, cult and organisation within the Roman religion; Etrusquian and Eastern influences.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Tantra - Hindu and Buddhist
course director: Małgorzata Sacha-Piekło
course code: A/30
prerequisites: A/05 - Hinduism and Buddhism
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter + summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 3 (4,5 ECTS)
description: The course aims at systematic introducing the complex phenomenon of tantric movement, within its historical and religious-philosophical contexts. Division between Hindu and Budhist tantra is made due to proper recognision of the specific features within each of them (diversities in pantheons, doctrinal bases and rites), and also makes possible to find their common features (the guru institution, the meaning of an initiation, mantra, meditation and ritual). Special emphasis lays on the characteristic tantra implements: canonical symbolic iconography, concepts of mantra, mandala, yantra and ritual activities.
methods of evaluation: an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The Sacred Symbols of Hinduism
course director: Małgorzata Sacha-Piekło
course code: A/31
prerequisites: A/05 - Hinduism and Buddhism
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: The course is an introduction into the rich symbolical Hindu traditions. The praticipants will get aquianted with the main elements of the iconographic canon (divine shapes, emblems, atributes), gesture-language and specific symbols during the ritual activities. Another issue researched here is the symbolical meanings of the subtle world (subtle body icon, meditation symbols) and symbolical equivalencies. The course has the rich iconographical documentation, ilustrating several symbolic forms.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Bhakti - Hindu Mysticism
course director: Przemysław Piekarski
course code: A/32
prerequisites: A/05 - Hinduism and Puddhism
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter + summer
course form: monograhic lecture
credits: 3 (4,5 ECTS)
description: The notion of bhakti from the Vedic timies to the modern usage, the place of bhakti marga (the path of piety) among the other methods of reaching the Absolute. The outlook of the philosophical schools connected with the bhakti dotrinal development, their literature (original and in translation): bhakti as seen in the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavadgita and Bhagavatapurana. Nirguna and saguna schools. The description of the diversity of the bhakti schools, groups and beliefs in India (Allvars, Santas, Ramanuja and Ramananda followers, disciples of Kabir and Dadu, Sikhs, Sufis etc.). Bhakti in the late Hindu literature: R. Tagore, Mahadevi Varma etc. Religious drama - raslila and ramlila. Hindu rooted new religios movements and their relations to bhakti.
methods of evaluation: oral colloquium + an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Upanishads, the Source of the Religious and Philosophical Thought in India
course director: Marta Kudelska
course code: A/35
prerequisites: A/05 - Hinduism and Buddhism
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: The aim of the course is to introduce the canon of the classical Upanishads. The formation of the classical Hindu notions connected with the Upanishads: atman, brahman, sansara, moksha, yoga. The sources of braminic orthodoxy, exemplifying by the transformation of an sacrifice idea from the Vedic times, through the Upanishads to the Vedanta system fully developed. Upanishads as the main text for the philosophical considerations within the Vedanta schools.
methods of evaluation: an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Judaism
course director: Michał Galas
course code: A/36
prerequisites: A/02 - Religions of the Ancient Near East II
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 3 (4,5 ECTS)
description: the aim of the course is to show the general issues connected with the phenomenon of Judaism. History of Judaism from the Biblical to modern tiems. Rabinic Judaism: Talmud and Rabinic literature. Judaism in Middle Ages. The main trends of modern Judaism: Reformed, Conservative and Orthodox Judaism. Mysticism and messianism. The festivals and customs.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + an essay
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The History of Judaism in Poland
course director: Michał Galas
course code: A/37
prerequisites: A/36 - Judaism
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: The history of Jewish religious tradition on Polish territory from the 16th century to the modern times. The most important and specific phenomena within the Polish Jewry: main personages, ideologies, movements and schools. Halakhah literature, Talmudic studies, mysticism, kabbalah; chasidism and its adversaries. Messianism: messianic movements (Shabbataism, Frankism), messianic ideas and sspeculations, the influence of the Jewish messianism on Polish one. Musarism, Judaism in 19 and 20th century, Reformed Judaism, haskalah and “Wissenschaft des Judentums” influences, scientific institutions, religious schools. Religiosity during the Holocaust period. Jews and Judaism after 1945.
methods of evaluation:
form of credit: valuated credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The Pentateuch - the Source of Jewish Law
course director: Krzysztof Pilarczyk
course code: A/38
prerequisites: A/02 - Religions of the Ancient Near East II
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 1 (1,5 ECTS)
description: Forming of the Jewish law in the Antic, its most important explications in the Pentateuch, their literary and historical criticism and comparative analysis of the content.
methods of evaluation: course attendance
form of credit: credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Introduction into the Hebrew Bible and the Apocrypha
course director: Krzysztof Pilarczyk
course code: A/39
prerequisites: A/02 - Religions of the Ancient Near East II
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: monographic lecture
credits: 2 (3,5 ECTS)
description: Old Hebrew literature in the context of the other Ancient Near East literatures, the history of Palestinian and Alexandrian canon. Literary criticism, the division of Biblical books, its Newiim and Ketuwim parts. Biblical and Juedeochristian apocrypha, presentation of their particular classes (the story, testament, psalm, haggadah, apocalypsa).
methods of evaluation: colloquium + an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Islam in 19-20th Century India; Its Speciphic Features as seen on the Ahmadiyya Community Example
course director: Piotr Stawiński
course code: A/41
prerequisites: A/03 - Islam (Introduction)
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: An Analysis of the ways of the Islamic thought adaptation to the speciphic situation of Muslim in British India, the mutual relations between living, traditional religions (Islam, Hinduism, Christianity), ways of interaction and the syncretic affords of unification. As an example of the complicated processes taking place, the social and political life of the Ahmadiyya community is used.
methods of evaluation: ?
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The Religions of China
course director: Anna Wójcik
course code: A/42
prerequisites: A/06 - Religions of the Far East
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: The aim of the course is to present the main religious traditions in China: Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism. Classical Taoism, laozi and Zhuangzi, classical Confucianism of the Four Books, concepts and practices of the Buddhist schools: Tiantai, Huayen, Chan and Neoconfucianism Zhuxi and of Wang Yangming.
methods of evaluation: attendance
form of credit: oral exam
This course is an effect of uniting two earlier ones: A/33 Confucianism and A/34 Chinese Taoism and Buddhism. Students who passed those courses before cannot attend this one.

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The Elements of Gnosis in religion and culture; from the Middle Ages to the Modern Times.
course director: Izabela Trzcińska
course code: A/43
prerequisites: F/01 - Ancient and Medieval Christianity
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: The aim of the course is to show the typical gnostic religions (e.g. Catharism) as well as the gnostic motifs within the orthodox traditions (e.g. in Orthodox Church, Judaism and Islam). Presentation of the quasi-religious systems (e.g. alchemy). Gnostic elements in the philosophy (Renaissance mainly), art, psychology will be also under consideration, as well as the neognosis and New Age.
methods of evaluation: colloquium
form of credit: valued credit.
 

Phenomenology of religion block (B)

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The Structure of the Sacred
course director: Włodzimierz Pawluczuk/Tomasz Sikora
course code: B/01
prerequisites: G/01 Introduction into the Study of Religion
classification: Basic course
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Religious experience and phenomenology of the sacred: psychological, phenomenological, existential methods of interpretation. Phenomenology of religion as the methode of researching religious facts. Antireductionism of the phenomenological attitude. The basic features of the sacred in R. Otto’s philosophy (irrationalism, fascination, awe) and his criticism. theories of G. van der Leeuw and M. Eliade. Existentialism: Marcel. Tillich, Buber, Levinas. theology of dialog (I and Thou), the ultimate concern. Eternity as the moment of the religious experience and in ritual. Nothingness as the sacred (Sartre), as the centre and the frames of being, as the mana source. The essence, its phenomenon, out-of-timeness and invariability, non-empirical in the essence. Transcendence in Aquinatus, Plato and Berger thought. Transcendence and nothingness, essence and eternity. The Other and the sacred (Husserl, Scheler, Levinas, Buber, Tillich). Sex and the sacred: phenomenology of intimacy, nakedness and shame; partner as the Other, ascesis and orgy. Ways of God comprehention: Supreme Being, Absolute, sense. Development of the idea of God: celestial hierophany, God and gods, god of evil.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Geography of Religion
course director: Izabela Sołjan
course code: B/02
prerequisites: G/01 Introduction into the Study of Religion
classification: basic course
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: Geography of religion as a part of geographical sciences. World religions and their spatial distribution. Religious regions of the world. Religous migrations, their typology, spatial range, social structure of participants etc. natural environment and the pilgrimages. Pilgrimages and colonisation. Transformations of the natural and cultural environment as the function of religion.
methods of evaluation:
form of credit: colloquium

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Politology of Religion
course director: Bogumił Grott/Kazimierz Banek/Artur Paszko
course code: B/03
prerequisites: G/03 - Ancient and Early Medieval Civilisations or G/04 - Medieval and Modern Civilisations
classification: basic course
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Course deals with the relations between religions and political life in every respect. Characteristics of the politology of religion as the scientific discipline. Prophets, reformators and religious thinkers and their attitude towards the state and the authority. The influence of religious ethics on the political mentality of the nations. Sacred functions of kingdom and lordship. The essence of religious conflicts. Religous federations and religious-political societies. “Chosen” nation and nationalism issues. Political parties and their relation to religion. Theocratic state, sacralisation of the law and the attitude towards the new religions. Relations between christianity political authorities and political doctrines within the history.
methods of evaluation: colloquium + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Theory of Myth
course director: Andrzej Szyjewski
course code: B/05
prerequisites: B/01 - Structure of the Sacred
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: lecture + classes
credits: 3 (4,5 ECTS)
description: The course is an introdution to the phenomenological analysis of myths. main theories and methods of myth researching. The place of myth within the cultural system, raltaions to the religion and ritual. Structure and functions of myth, classification of mythic forms, relation between myth, fairy-tale and epic. Cosmogonic, heroic and eschatological myths. Myth in the modern times. Practical analysis of particular myths. The aim of the course is to provide participants with theoretical knowledge as well as the skill in individual analysis of myths and mythical motifs.
methods of evaluation: an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Neo-pagan and National Christian Movements in Europe
course director: Bogumił Grott/Kazimiera Mikoś/Artur Paszko/Żaneta Bugajska-Moskal
course code: B/07
prerequisites: B/03 - Politology of religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: lecture + classes
credits: 3 (4,5 ECTS)
description: European neo-pagan phenomenon, its roots, ethical aspects and outcomes from the Middle Ages until 20th century. The mature forms of neo-paganism in Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine. National Christian movements in France, Portugal, Spain and Poland. Their philosophical background and ralations with catholicism. “The New Middle Ages” idea as an expression of christian values influence on culture and politics. Koncepts of individual vs state relations, social and economical system, historiosophy, antisemitism and racism. Regarding liberal values, communism, nazism and fascism.
methods of evaluation: colloquium
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Shamanism and Diffusionism in Hungarian Fairy-Tale (The Heaven-Reaching Tree)
course director: Wiesław Bator
course code: B/08
prerequisites: B/01 Structure of the Sacred and G/02 Ethnology of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: The aim of the course is to present the traditional world outlook in the folk culture belonging to the stepp traditions. Although there are several different historical and cultural levels accumulated in layers in the Hungarian epic, they create a new compact entity which seriously affects the Hungarian culture and are necessary in an every afford to understand it. The research methode used in the course is to clasify those layers (Shamanic, Iranian, Turan, Christian etc.), reconsidering how much the Hungarian folk world outlook owes to them.
methods of evaluation: colloquium or an essay (optional)
form of credit: valued credit
For the Hungarian philology students this course is joint with the course A/20 Hungarian Mythology in one course, called: Myths and Beliefs of ancient Hungarians.

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Phenomenology of religion
course director: Karol Tarnowski/Kazimiera MIkoś
course code: B/15
prerequisites: G/01 Introduction into the Study of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: lecture + classes
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: There are several methods of understanding phenomenology, different in philosophy (E. Husserl, M. Scheler) and within the study of religion (G. van Leeuw, M. Eliade). The aim of the course is to present those different ways of understanding and pursuing phenomenology of religion, new trends including.
methods of evaluation: exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The Bare vs. Shod foot (The Semantics of the Universal Iconographic Motif)
course director: Arnold Lebeuf
course code: B/18
prerequisites: B/01 Structure of the Sacred
classification: facultative
number of hours: 45
semester: summer
course form: monographic lecture
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: The journey following the one shoe shod foot motif from prehistory until modern times. Iconography: from the Roman relief in Saint-Sernin Church in Tuluza to the modern movies and advertisements. The heritage of the spring intiation ceremonies.
methods of evaluation: attendance
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Tree and Time
course director: Arnold Lebeuf
course code: B/19
prerequisites: G/02 - Ethnology of Religion, B/01 - Structure of the Sacred
classification: facultative
number of hours: 45
semester: summer
course form: monographic lecture
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: The aim of the course is to search the symbols of time as expressed in the tree symbolism. Different understanding of time measuring: astronomical, mechanical (clockwork) atomic. Metaphors of time flow: linear, curved, cyclical, helicoidal. flexible, rhytmical and syncoped. The lunar time - ceremonial and organic, seasonal time, generation exchange and biological rhytmes. Inner journey as the search for origins: wandering in the forest or tree-cutting? The Cosmic Tree. The Primeval Forest, the Garden of Paradise, the trees of time and regeneration. The Jessie Tree, genealogical trees.
methods of evaluation: an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The Revelations
course director: Arnold Lebeuf
course code: B/20
prerequisites: G/02 - Ethnology of Religion, B/01 - Structure of the Sacred
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: monographic lecture
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: The substantial role of lightness in the revelation accounts. The role of lighrt in cosmogony: astrophisical and mythical (And God said: “Let there be light, and there was light”, Gen. 1,3). Light in the atmosphere: lightnings. Imagination, hallucinations, optical tricks, artistic creations. Plato’s Cave and divine cinema, world creation by the use of light.
methods of evaluation: oral paper
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The Art and the Sacred
course director: Izabela Trzcińska
course code: B/21
prerequisites: G/02 - Ethnology of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 3 (4,5 ECTS)
description: The course content is an afford to answer the question how is it possible to express the sacred in art and what are the manifestations of such phenomenon. Defining art and religion and analysis of the particular examples of sacred art. The course will be run in 4-hour block divided into the theoretical and practical parts (iconographical interpretation). There will be also some field researches as well as the meetings with the modern artists presenting their understanding of an idea of sacred art an the sacred in art.
methods of evaluation: an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The World of Alchemy
course director: Małgorzata Sacha-Piekło
course code: B/22
prerequisites: B/01 - The Structure of the Sacred
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: The course aims at introducing the rich and complicated symbolism of the great alchemical traditions. The introductory part of the course is concentrated on the double current in alchemy: scientific and mistical at the same time. The basic traditions in alchemy: European (including Greek, Persian and Arabic sources), Hindu and Chinese. Relations between alchemy and main religious-philosophical currents (Hermetism, Kabbalah, Gnosis, Tantra, Sufism, Taoism etc.). Alchemic symbols used by the most of those traditions. Jungian analysis of alchemical symbolism.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + an essay + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Semiotics and the Study of Religion
course director: Tomasz Sikora
course code: B/23
prerequisites: B/01 The Structure of the Sacred
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: The course aims at introducing possibilities that are created by the usage of the semiotic researches within the study of religion. Classical texts on the theory of sign and communication (Ch. S. Peirce, F. De Saussure, L. Hjelmslev, K. Bühler, R. Jakobson et al.). Special emphasis will be layed on the anthropological, Psychoanalitycal and kognitive koncepts of philo- and ontogenesis of language within the context of sacred languages and linguistic mysticism (Kabbalah, Tantra). Speech acts theory (Austin-Searl) and theories of the liguistic pragmatics. Isuues of ritual magic and religious usage of the sign system.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Reincarnation Concepts in Some Religious Traditions
course director: Andrzej Wierciński
course code: B/24
prerequisites: B/01 The Structure of the Sacred
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter + summer
course form: monographic lecture
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: Reincarnation, as seen in Christian, Kabbalistic, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and shamanic traditions.
methods of evaluation: attendance
form of credit: credit
 

Sociology of Religion Block (C)

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Sociology of Religion
course director: Irena Borowik
course code: C/01
prerequisites: G/05 - Principles of Sociology of Religion
classification: basic course
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (7 ECTS)
description: The aim of the course is the systematic presentation of the main problems in socilogy of relligion, especially relations between organisational forms of religion and the types of societies, connections between religion and social structure, politics, economy, family life and society.
methods of evaluation: colloquium + an essay + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religiosity of Polish Society
course director: Irena Borowik
course code: C/02
prerequisites: C/01 - Sociology of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: The course aims at the systematic analysis of religiosity of Polish society placing it in the context of ather Christian countries. Social forms that religion assumes are connected with the type of society, in which it functions, therefore religiosity is the form of religious aspect of social consciousness. In the same time it is one of the basic notions in empirical currents in sociology of religion. The aim of the course is to aquiant participants with the variety of religiosity concepts and adopting one, chosen to the student own research. The subject of research should express interests of the course participants, both in the group selection (either dominant religious traditions or new religious movements in Poland) as well as in the methods and implemets used.
methods of evaluation: students’ own research + an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religion and Trensformation in Post-communist Europe
course director: Irena Borowik
course code: C/03
prerequisites: C/01 - Sociology of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description:
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religion and Ethnicity
course director: Grzegorz Babiński/Ewa Michno
course code: C/04
prerequisites: C/01 - Sociology of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: The aim of the course is the analysis of relations between the changes in ethnic societies and religion. The notion of nation, ethnic gropup, national minority. The role of religion in the processes of creating the nation. Problems of differencies, integration and assimilation. Religion in the shaping and change of ethnic consiousness. Religions and nationalistic movements. Multiethnic societies. Ethnic conflicts and religious differentiation in former Yugoslavia. ideological changes and religious movements in former USSR.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religious Faiths in Contemporary Poland
course director: Zbigniew Pasek
course code: C/06
prerequisites: C/01 Sociology of Religion + 2nd year of studies finished
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: lecture + classes
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Course is the broad review of religious minorities’ faiths in contemporary Poland, registered ones as well as those remaining outside the official recognising. Their newest history, religious doctrines. Selected elements of the denominational law, classification and an attempt of typology of the new movements and currents, as present in Poland after 1989. The course also provides some methods of collecting data on those subjects. Some meetings with the memebers of several religious minorities in Poland. Studens are obligued to make their own individual field research and preparing a monography of the one of the denominations.
methods of evaluation: students’ own research + an essay.
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religion and Culture
course director: Piotr Stawiński
course code: C/11
prerequisites: C/01 - Sociology of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: The course aims at 1) providing participants with the basic knowledge on issues in the theory of culture (main notions, concepts of th origins, nature and changes in culture, culture typology etc.); 2) analysing the place of religion within culture, both in theoretical and practical expression in everyday life. General frames of the course content base on the Frederic Streng, Charles Lloyd and Jay Allen concept of analysing relations of religion and culture by the way of researching 8 ways of its existence. The course can serve as an introducion or completion to the other courses bearing with the society and religion relations.
methods of evaluation: ?
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Demonism and Witchcraft; the Formation of an Idea and Its Social Functioning
course director: Piotr Stawiński
course code: C/12
prerequisites: C/01 - Sociology of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: Analysis of several cases of the witchcraft accusation from the point of view of their social conditioning, origins and the process. Different theoretical concepts of the demonism and witchcraft and an attempt to confront them with the factographic data.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes
form of credit: valued credit
 

Psychology of religion block (D)

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Psychology of Religion
course director: Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska/Andrzej Molenda
course code: D/01
prerequisites: G/06 - Principles of Psychology
classification: basic course
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Presentation of the psychological conditioning of relations between man and the sacred, made from the psychological point of view (independent from any religious tradition). Special emphasis lays on the methodological and theoretical issues. During course students are obligued to make some short essays on the chosen themes in psychology of religion. The knowledge of the basic notions and psychological theories is necessary for the course participants.
methods of evaluation: essays + papers + exam
form of credit: written exam (test)

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religion - Pathology - Therapy
course director: Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska
course code: D/02
prerequisites: D/01 - Psychology of Religion; English skills allowing reading the English literature
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 3 (4,5 ECTS)
description: The course is devoted to relations between psychological health and pathology in several religious traditions. Cultural conditions of psychological health and pathology will also be discussed. Forms of an religious experience or psychological pathology in different cultures (e.g. posession, trance, divination).
methods of evaluation: essay + short papers + exam
form of credit: written exam (test)

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Spirituality and Human Development
course director: Paweł Socha
course code: D/03
prerequisites: D/01 - Psychology of Religion; English skills allowing reading the English literature
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: lecture + conversatory
credits: 4 (7 ECTS)
description: A notion of spirituality in psychology. Psychological development and spiritual development. Domains of spirituality: morality (conscience), self (conscious and unconscious self), mind (cognitive processes in the mind), et al. Life span theories of development of consciousness, morality, faith, and religiousness. Spiritual development from the perspective of psychoanalysis, neo-psychoanalysis, humanistic, existential, and transpersonal psychology. Psychological maturity as spiritual and religious ideal, and ways of its acquisition; Hindu, Tao, Buddhist, Islamic, Jewish, and Christian patterns of it. Admission conditions: credits including personality and developmental psychology; skills allowing reading the English literature sources.
methods of evaluation: short papers + an essay + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Religiousness and Personality and Social Functionig of an Individual
course director: Paweł Socha
course code: D/04
prerequisites: D/01 - Psychology of Religion; English skills allowing reading the English literature
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: conversatory + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: A notion of religiousness in the psychology of religion, operationalisation of religiousness: variables and indices. Review of research on the relationships between religiousness and an individual's personality and social functioning (religiousness and an individual's socialisation, mental health, social problems - conflicts, delinquency, etc.); religious coping. Scales measuring religiousness and religious orientations. Questionnaires, tests, and other methods in the research on relationships between religiousness and personality and social functioning of an individual. Research procedure in the empirical psychology of religion in practice (each student does a small research project or participates in the research project of the course author.
methods of evaluation: test + research report + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The Classics in the Psychology of Religion
course director: Paweł Socha
course code: D/05
prerequisites: D/01 - Psychology of Religion; English skills allowing reading the English literature
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: conversatory + workshop + individual tutoring
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Reading and analysis of the "Varieties of religious experiences" by William James. Tha classic German psychology of religion. The Polish tradition: Abramowski, Błachowski, Dawid, Witwicki. Psychoanalytic tradition: basic texts by Freud concerning religion abd literature on Freud. Jung for the psychology of religion (reading of Jung's selected works, and contemporary analyses of Jung's contribution to the subject). E. Fromm and the psychology of religion (texts and literature on Fromm). Religion and religious experience in the works of Maslow and Allport. Pruyser's studies on religion and the meaning of religion for a person. Legacy of Erik Erikson for the theory of religiousness and its development. Tradition of the existential psychology: May and Frankl. Writing workshop - aimed on developing skills in writing scientific papers in psychology for publication. Making a choice of a topic of an essay concerning a selected work and (or) author related to a tradition psychology of religion, working on the contents and form of this essay.
methods of evaluation: short papers + an essay + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Cultural Psychology
course director: Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska
course code: D/06
prerequisites: D/01 - Psychology of Religion; English skills allowing reading the English literature
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 3 (4,5 ECTS)
description: Discussion of cultural settings of an human being understanding. Issues of intercultural communication. psychological pathology in the context of religiosity and individual religiousness. Participants are obligued to accomplish several individual and group exercises as discussed during course.
methods of evaluation: short papers + an essay + exam
form of credit: written exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Psychosociological Problems of the New Religious Movements
course director: Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska
course code: D/07
prerequisites: D/01 - Psychology of Religion; English skills allowing reading the English literature
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 3 (4,5 ECTS)
description: Psychological and social mechanisms of new religious movements establishing, psychological needs of their members as fulfilled by the participation in the movements. The leader role and its psychological features. Controversial themes: methods of conversion, proselitism, methods of missioning. Sect psychosis. Participants are obligued to take part in some meetings with the NRR groups.
methods of evaluation: an essay + research report + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Biological Theory of the Religious Experience
course director: David Hay
course code: D/08
prerequisites: D/01 - Psychology of Religion; English skills allowing reading the English literature and understanding spoken English
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30 (compressed in one week)
semester: summer
course form: conversatory (in English)
credits: 2 (4 ECTS)
description: Analysis of the biological and evolutional background of a religious experience. Development of spirituality from children to adults. Presenation of modern experimental methods of reserching spirituality.
methods of evaluation: attendance + an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Tracing Spirituality
course director: Paweł Socha
course code: D/09
prerequisites: D/01 - Psychology of religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: Discussion concerning some basic topics as: the notion of spirituality in psychology, psychological development and spiritual development, domains of spirituality. Collecting of materials concerning the appearances of spirituality in religions (with special focus on the new religious movements), and any other (e.g. in so called "lofty" culture, as well as the mass culture, including rock, techno, disco-polo; in the cinema, politics, internet, different hobbies, etc.). Presentation of materials in print, audio and video recordings, and their elaboration.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + an essay
form of credit: valued credit
 

Philosophy of religion block (E)

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Philosophy of Religion
course director: Krzysztof Mech
course code: E/01
prerequisites: G/07 - Main Trends in Philosophy
classification: basic course
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: The course aims at presentation of the basic ways of approaching religion as elaborated by the philosophy of religion (in the broad sense) in its history. Being an appropriate introduction to the matter, the course gives an opportunity to deepen students interest in this subject. It offers a basic orientation in general “styles” of philosophying on religion and, finally, authors own propposal. In his perspective philosophy of religion is seen as the text requiying an interpretation in the philosophical rationality language. Philosophy of religion aims at reaching the philosophical sense includede in the religious message, so many theories of interpretation of religion (heremeneutics) should be used to fix the particular types of the philosophy of religion.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Ethics
course director: Marek Drwięga
course code: E/02
prerequisites: G/07 - Main Trends in Philosophy
classification: basic course
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: lecture
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: The notion and subject of ethics. Phenomenology and hermeneutics and studies in ethics. Humanism, utilitarism, pragmatism; normative, axiological, analytical, environmental and personalistic ethics. Ethics of moderation, cooperation, struggle, responsibility and medicine. Ethics and politics, law and economy. History of ethics, history of ethics in Poland. The review of the several ethical systems from antiquity until modern times.
methods of evaluation: colloquium + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Ethics in the World Religions
course director: Jerzy Ochman
course code: E/04
prerequisites: E/02 - Ethics
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Ethics of religion and other types of ethics. Ethics and religion. The object of ethics (human being, his/her mind, will and deeds). The sources of ethics in theocentric, cosmocentric and anthropocentric religions. Methodology of comparative ethics of religion. The review of ethical systems in major religions and atheistic systems. Contemporary ethical problems in Poland.
methods of evaluation: colloquium + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The Dispute on Faith
course director: Krzysztof Mech
course code: E/06
prerequisites: E/01 - Philosophy of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 3 (4,5 ECTS)
description: the theme of the course is an outlook of disputies about understanding of faith (belief) and its place in human life. Analysis of faith in its every possible aspect. Biblical history of faith - faith as opposed to the seeing. Faith in its gnoseological aspect; faith as an intelectual act (st Paul), faith as trust (Abraham). Analysis of the modern philosophical concepts of faith. Disputes about faith. Question of an essence of faith, faith dynamics. Faith and other aspects of Human spirituality; faith and reason, faith and feelings etc. Bad faith - faith as an falsified way of being. “The kinds” of faith: belief that..., belief in... etc.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: oral exam
faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name Jewish Mysticism
course director: Jerzy Ochman
course code: E/07
prerequisites: E/01 - Philosophy of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: lecture
credits: 3 (4.5 ECTS)
description: Ancient and early-medieval Jewish mysticism. Mystycism of the palaces and nine currents in Kabbalah. the mystical sources of chasidism and parascience. Jewish national mysticism in 19th century.
methods of evaluation:
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Philosophy of Man
course director: Marek Drwięga
course code: E/08
prerequisites: E/01 - Philosophy of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 45
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3,5 ECTS)
description: An review of concepts of human being and axiological worldviews: with or without God. Analysis of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Freud, Buber, Scheler, Levinas, Derrida, Ricoeur, Arendt writings on the subject.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Philosophical Search of Transcendence - Between Negation and Affirmation
course director: Krzysztof Mech
course code: E/11
prerequisites: E/01 - Philosophy of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter + summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: The course attempt is to “think into” the 19th and 20th century search of God. This philosophical quest presupposes that God is lost in some way within the culture or racional reflexion. Contemporary philosophy generally desires to restore God to the European culture. The course tries to investigate these searching methods and to reveal some “typology” of Buber, Tillich, Levinas, Jaspers, Ricoeur and others thoughts. Philosophical attempts of God search show that cultural losing of the sacred transparency has its important reasons. Analysis of an atheistic phenomenon in 19 and 20th centuries (so called “the great suspicious”: Marx, Niezsche, Freud), an attempt to rethink atheism in the context of broadly understood philosophy of man. The subject of research is rather the concept of human being as the background than an atheistic “philosophy of God”. Question how contemporary “dialectical understanding” of man qualifies “understanding” of God. An attempt of answer the problem of negativity in man: must its revealing lead to negation of God or, in contrary, to His affirmation?
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Philosophy of God
course director: Karol Tarnowski
course code: E/16
prerequisites: E/01 - Philosophy of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter + summer
course form: lecture
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: (1) The question of God: how does the human being tend to ask about God, what kind of anthropology and worldview does it pressuppose, what is the contemporary shape of the question. (2) God in the philosophy of religion; the notions of: the sacred, revelation, faith, language of thinking about God, personal God and impersonate divinity. (3) God in metaphisics and post-methaphisical thought: phenomenology and philosophy of dialogue. The issue of metaphisical experience, question on “arche”, metaphisics as a science, the existence of God and its “proofs”, the essence of God an His “names”: ultimate being, truth and infinity. The question of God after metaphisics and ontotheology criticism: Heidegger, Levinas, Marion and others thoughts.
methods of evaluation:
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Philosophy of World Religions
course director: Jerzy Ochman
course code: E/17
prerequisites: E/01 - Philosophy of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + classes
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Differencies between philosophy, philosophy of religion and religious philosophy. Methods in philosophy of religion. Jewish, muslim, catholic, orthodox, protestant philosophy.
methods of evaluation: colloquium + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Philosophy of Testimony
course director: Karol Tarnowski
course code: E/18
prerequisites: E/01 - Philosophy of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: monographic lecture
credits: 1 (2 ECTS)
description: Philosophy of Testimony in contemporary thought (Levinas, Ricoeur). It includes a special religious relation (testimony in the face of the Absolute) as well as a koncept of human object as an witness. The lecture tries to deepen both aspects of the problem.
methods of evaluation:
form of credit: credit

History of Christianity Block (F)

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Ancient and Medieval Christianity
course director: Jan Drabina
course code: F/01
prerequisites: G/03 - Ancient and Early Medieval Civilisations
classification: basic course
number of hours: 75
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 5 (8 ECTS)
description: Ancient Christianity (from 1st to 5th century) as seen in the scope of its doctrine, cult and organisation, with a special regard to its spreading from Judaism and disintegrative processes (Arianism, Nestorianism, Monophisitism). Differences between Western and Eastern Churches. Medieval Christianity (476-1492) as seen in its historical conditions: reborning Europe after the Peoples Wanderings. Characteristic mutations and heterodoxial tendences (heresies) leading into the reformation by Martin Luther. The Church of Bisantinian Rite (Orthodoxy) in conflict with the Roman-catholic one.
methods of evaluation: 2 colloquies: oral and written
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Modern and Contemporary Christianity
course director: Bogumił Grott/Zbigniew Pasek/Rafał Łętocha
course code: F/02
prerequisites: G/04 - Medieval and Modern Civilisations
classification: basic course
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: The spread of Reformation and its tracts in particular European countries. main reformators and their teachings. Second reformation. Religious geography of modern Europe. Balcan Orthodoxy after the fall of Constantinopole. Moscow Orthodoxy - its religious and political aspects. Trident Council, post-trident Catholicism: popes, orders, missions. Gallicanism, febronianism, josephinism, quietism. Catholicism and the French Revolution. 19th century and the first part of 20th in the Church history. Vaticanum II, oecumenism. The spread of Catholicism and Protestantism in the main states. Social catholic doctrine in 19th and 20th century. Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Kalvinism, Lutheranism, The Church of England - comparative account.
methods of evaluation: colloquium + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Churches and Denominations in the History and Cultury of Modern Poland
course director: Bogumił Grott/Zbigniew Pasek
course code: F/05
prerequisites: G/04 - Medieval and Modern Civilisations
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (7 ECTS)
description: The condition of Polish Catholicism on the turn of 15th and 16th century. Polish Reformation, its religious, social and cultural aspects. Orthodoxy - its place within the Crown and Lithuania before the 1596 Union. Bresc Union and its causes. The history of rivalisation between the Orthodox and Unite Churches in the 1st Republique and its political, cultural and national aspects. The genesis and range of Polish religious tolerancy. Post-trident Catholicism and its “sarmatising”. Armenian Church, Judaism, Old-Believers, Islam and Karaimism. The influence of the Enlightenment on the denominational politics of the state. The role of the Roman-catholic Church and Catholicism in the culture and everydaay life of the nation during peartitioning of Poland. The model of Polish-Catholic and its political implications. The revival of religiousness and the role of the Roman-catholic Church in the 2nd Republique; religious minorities - political and national aspects. German and Soviet occupation and their denominational politics. Communism towards religion and the Church in Peoples Republique of Poland. Religion and the Church after 1989. A review of the contemporary small denomiantions in Poland.
methods of evaluation:
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Protestantism
course director: Zbigniew Pasek
course code: F/06
prerequisites: F/02 - Modern and Contemporary Christianity
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + classes
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: History of Reformation and its progress, establishing of the main currents in 16th century Protestantism. Religious doctrines of: :utheranism, Calvinism, the Church of England and the radical Reformation. Genesis of the second Reformation and the Free Churches. Kongregationism, Baptism, Presbiterianism, the Quakers. Pietism and Methodism, Awakening movements of 18th and 19th centuries: Adventism, “inquring” movement, pentecostal movement. Contemporary situation of Protestantism.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes, own researches + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Social Catholicism
course director: Bogumił Grott
course code: F/10
prerequisites: F/02 - Modern and Contemporary Christianity
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: lecture + classes
credits: 3 (4,5 ECTS)
description: The course aims at the presentation of both: historical genesis and the content of Roman-catholic social and political teachings within its context. Discussing the most important documents of papacy, from Leon the XIIIth to John Poul II with a special regard to the early phase of establishing social doctrine of the Church. manifestations of the Catholic ideas reception in social and political journalism in 20th century.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: oral exam
The course is being run every two year

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Orthodox Tradition Churches
course director: Jan Drabina
course code: F/13
prerequisites: F/01 - Ancient and Medieval Christianity
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: lecture + classes
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Orthodox Churches in Antiquity and in Middle Ages. Peculiarity of orthodoxy as seen in the scope of doctrine, cult and organisation. Relations with the Roman-Catholic Church. Bysantium and the Orthodox Slavonic peoples. Eastern monasticism. The meaning of the sacred art in Orthodoxy.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Russian Orthodoxy - History and Culture
course director: Elżbieta Przybył
course code: F/20
prerequisites: F/01 - Ancient and Medieval Christianity
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: History of the Russian Orthodox Church until contemporary times. Elements of its doctrine and cult. Basic foundations of theology and its peculiarity; misticism and Russian mistics. Monasticism - main personages and centres. Main heresies - their history and nature; history of the Break and Old-Believers culture. Orthodox art and culture; contemporary Russian Orthodoxy - its possibilities and limitations. The course also includes out-door classes: student camp and/or visiting Orthodox churches.
methods of evaluation: an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Introduction into the New Testament and apocrypha (Jewish and Christian)
course director: Krzysztof Pilarczyk
course code: F/21
prerequisites: F/01 - Ancient and Medieval Christianity
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: New Testament literary criticism; history of the Canon, divisions of books and genological issues (gospel, praxeis, letter), historical and literary criticism of the synoptic gospels and the Acts of Apostles, ideology of St. Paul Letters, pseudoepigraphy. Catholic letters characteristics, Gospel of St. John, Apokalipsis. Judeochristian apocrypha, their origin and kinds.
methods of evaluation: cooloquium + an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Culture of the American Puritanism
course director: Piotr Stawiński
course code: F/22
prerequisites: F/02 - Modern and Contemporary Christianity
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: lecture + classes
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: The course offers an analysis of religious and social conditions od Puritan immigration to America. Its circumstances, process and theological interpretation; “providential history” category as a key to understanding Puritan mentality and its influence in the contemporary America. The course emphasis is on the first years of British colonisation (1620-1692), as seen from the point of view of the clash of ideas and expectations with reality.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The Church Influence on the Westwern Culture Establishing in the Middle Ages (5th-13th century)
course director: Piotr Wróbel
course code: F/23
prerequisites: F/01 - Ancient and Medieval Christianity
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: Christianity in the face of the civilisational achievements of the Pagan antiquity (3rd-5th century). Christianity in the times of the fall of the Western Empire and establishing of barbarian states (5th-6th). Church and education (5th-8th). Intelectual achievements of the Church people (6th-8th). Church in the face of the Karolings’ monarchy. Reception of the Greek and Arabian teachings (10th-12th). The life of Peter Abelard. Church and university. Church in the face of the knighthood and wars. Church in the face of art. Pilgimages and pilgrims. Christian unity idea in the Middle Ages. Church and the phantastic geography: Saint Graal - fiction or reality.
methods of evaluation:
form of credit: valued credit
 

Prerequisites (G)

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Introduction into the Study of Religon
course director: Henryk Hoffmann
course code: G/01
classification: prerequisit
number of hours: 120
semester: winter + summer
course form: lecture + classes
credits: 8 (12 ECTS)
description: Study of religion as the science on World’s religions. Religion as the research subject. The origin of religious beliefs. Definition of religion. Structure and functions of religion. Religion and alike phenomena (magic, philosophy, science, ideology, worldview etc.). Onomastical issue in the domain of the sciences of religion. The disciplines within the study of religion. Subsidiary disciplines. Basic guide-books.
methods of evaluation: 2 colloquiua + oral colloquium
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Ethnology of Religion
course director: Łukasz Trzciński/Dominika Zakrzewska-Bernasik
course code: G/02
classification: prerequisit
number of hours: 120
semester: winter + summer
course form: lecture + classes
credits: 8 (12 ECTS)
description: The basic notions in ethnology, its schools and methods. General characteristics of the traditional societies. Anthropogenesis and the origin of religious beliefs, paleolithic religions. Religion in the hunting-gathering societies: shamanism and the function of ecstasis; mythical thinking, magic, totemism in Australian and American societies. pastoral cults and the heavenly hierophany. Neolithic revolution and the primitive farmers religions; agrarian cults, ancestor cults, the complex of the Great Mother-Goddess, secret societies. The foundations of the ancient civilisations: megalithic culture. The collapse of traditinal societies and new religious movements.
The course aims at presentation of the basic forms of religious life in traditional societies as seen in the scope of anthropology. The lectures provide the synthesis of knowledge; texts analysed on classes represent main methods and approaches (1st semester) and researches in the particular issues (2nd semester). the partcipants are obligued to master the factographic knowledge as well as the methodology of the ethnology and/or anthropology of religion.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + 2 colloquiua + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Ancient and Early Medieval Civilisations
course director: Jan Drabina
course code: G/03
classification: prerequisit
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + class
credits: 4 (7 ECTS)
description: Ancient oriental, Far East and European civilisations, from Sumer to islam and post-Great Wanderings Europe. The civilisations are presented in sythesis as the base for the general vision of conditions of the great world religons origins.
methods of evaluation: colloquium + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Medieval and Modern Civilisations
course director: Bogumił Grott
course code: G/04
classification: prerequisit
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: lecture + classes
credits: 4 (7 ECTS)
description: Precolumbian civilisations of Americas: Mayas, Aztecs and Incas. Medieval civilisation of Europe from the turn of 10th-11th century and its modernity: general trends in European civilisation and their manifestations in the history. Chinese civilisation from the Sung dynasty. Hindu medieval and modern civilisation. Civilisation of the Great Eurasian Steppes. Early medieval Slavs. Black Africa civilisation. Elements of the philosophy of civilisation.
methods of evaluation: colloquia + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Principles of the Sociology of Religion
course director: Irena Borowik
course code: G/05
classification: prerequisit
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + classes
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: presentation of the basic schools in sociology and sociology of religion. Its place within the sciences of religion. Scientific centres and organisations in the sociology of religion. Review of the sociological definitions of religion. Classics in sociology of religion (Durkheim, Weber, Wach, Le Bras). Traditions of sociology of religion in Poland, methods and perspectives.
methods of evaluation: colloquium
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Principles of Psychology
course director: Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska/Marek Tański
course code: G/06
classification: prerequisit
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: lecture + classes
credits: 4 (6 ECTS)
description: Conception of human being in the contemporary psychology. Elements of the psychology of personality (main theories of personality, role of self). Elements of the social psychology (influence of social situation on the psyche; attitudes, their development and changes, norm and the expressions of social pathology). main theories of motivation, stress and coping with stress. Forms of psychological disturbances, psychological therapies. The foundations of the psychological development from the birth to ageing, main stadia od developmnet. methodology of psychological researches (research paradigms, methods and techniques of measurement of variables, rules of analysis of the field researches).
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: test exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The Main Trends in Philosphy
course director: Marek Drwięga
course code: G/07
classification: prerequisit
number of hours: 90
semester: winter (class) + summer (lecture + class)
course form: lecture + class
credits: 6 (9 ECTS)
description: Ways uf understanding philosophy. Relations between philosophy and religion. Philosophy: designations and divisons, contents, methods, categories. The starting point of philosophy: religion, rationalism, empirism. Main themes in philosophy: being, spirit, matter, world, man. Review of the main trends in philosophy from Antique antil modern times.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: oral exam
 
 

Other courses

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Methods of Teaching Religous Studies
course director: Kazimierz Banek
course code: G/13
prerequisites: G/23 - Pedagogics
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: lecture
credits: 3 (4,5 ECTS)
description: Discussion of didactics and methods. the aims of teaching. Methods of teaching. Problem of handbooks and educational equipment. The preparation of an conspectus. Preparation to the school apprenticeship.
methods of evaluation: exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The Religous Motifs in the European Prose on the turn of 19th and 20th Century
course director: Zbigniew Pasek
course code: G/21
prerequisites: 2nd year of studies finished
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: Review of the forms of presence of the sacred and broadly treated religious problems in several masterpieces of world literature. The axis of an analysis is the question of the “salvation conditions” of heroes and the ideal of sacredness or its equivalents.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Tolkien, Myth, Religion
course director: Andrzej Szyjewski
course code: G/22
prerequisites: A/04 - Religions of Prechristian Europe ^*
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: The outlook of the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien: from The Book of the Lost Tales to The Lord of the Rings. Linguistics and an imaginative world of Tolkien (Finnish and Welsh inspirations). The principle of mythology for England, first world of The Lost Tales as the journey of Ćlfwine (Celtic paralells). Cosmology, the principle of the trinity of elements. Place of Iluvatar among the Ainur and angelology: Christian and Iranian; pagan notion of god. The place of evil in the Tolkien system, the Christian and German patterns. Tolkien and the issue of mythical time. Influence of Andrew Lang. the principle of wonder in lliterature and its criticism by C. S. Lewis. Fairy-tales, fairies and elves in the Celtic and Gemran folklore. The Hobbit as a link between elfic mythology and fairy-tale world. Heroic epoc and The Lord of the Rings. Cult role of LoR in the development of phanatasy literature. The sources of Trilogy popularity.
The course aims at the reconstruction of the basics of Tolkien’s world creation. Participants are obligued to the active participating in classes and analysing of the text sources.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes
form of credit: valued credit
^* Participants are obligued to pass the introductory interview on the base of Tolkien writings. The course is not being run in the following year

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Traditions of Folk Astronomy in Christian Europe
course director: Arnold Lebeuf
course code: G/34
prerequisites: G/02 - Ethnology of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: summer
course form: monographic lecture
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: Ancient and pagan astronomical survivals in folk beliefs, art and Christian hagiography. Bishops and bears; analysis of the roman cathedral St Lizier, lokal folklore. Icone of the Last Judgment from Polana as survival of the babylonian astronomy. Warsaw altar as a mnemotechnic system of eclipses counting. Milky Way - the souls path, Mary Magdalene - the morning star.
methods of evaluation: attendance
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Esoteric Motifs and Plots in Mass Culture
course director: Wiesław Bator
course code: G/36
prerequisites: G/41 - Magic - Yesterday and Today
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: mechanism of introducing the esoteric elements into mass culture: level of esoteric knowledge by the makers. Influence of attractiveness factor on deformations (brutality, sex, melting traditions). Manipulation of the contemporary science achievements and the old traditions. Esoteric astral world in phantasy. Dogma and the High Magic ritual as adapted into horror. Esoteric shapes of thought and ideoplasty in thriller. Esoteric echo in pseudopopularisation and parasciences. Computer games and mass literature. The course incudes several film projections and discusing them.
methods of evaluation: activity on classes
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Science and Religion - Problems of the Borderline
course director: Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska
course code: G/37
prerequisites: 1st year of studies passed
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: lecture + conversatory
credits: 3 (4,5 ECTS)
description: Course discusses several religious and scientific ways of sorrounding world analysis. Data for discuss are taken from some disciplines detailed description such as theology, study of religion, philosophy, biology, phisics, astronomy, psychology, neuropsychology and medicine.
methods of evaluation: part-exam + essay + final exam
form of credit: test exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The Religious Motifs in the Film
course director: Zbigniew Pasek
course code: G/40
prerequisites: 2nd year of studies passed
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: analysis of particular films: Seventh Seal (I. Bergman); Babette Feast (G. Axel),  other Joanna of the Angels (J. Kawalerowicz), Picnic under the Falling Rock (P. Weir), Milky Way (L. Bunuel), Harry Angel (A. Parker), God’s Army/Breking the Waves/Andreyj Rublov (A. Tarkowski), Litlle Budda (B. Bertolucci), Pulp Fiction (Q. Tarantino), The Life of Brian According to Monty Python.
methods of evaluation: an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Magic - Yesterday and Today
course director: Wiesław Bator
course code: G/41
prerequisites: G/02 - Ethnology of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: The course aims at depiction of the different scientific schools’ opinions on magic, attempt to define it and explaining the basic elements of magical doctrines and ceremonies (operations, spells, evocating). Review of the magic phenomena (e.g. materialisation, telekinesis, teleportation, magic doubles etc.) and genetical tracks and sources of western (occidental) magic; their systematisation in 18th century.
methods of evaluation: oral colloquium or an essay (optional)
form of credit: valued credit
Course is run every two year in exchange with G/42: The World Picture in Esoteric Docrines. therefore it is not present in the following year offer.

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: The World Picture in Esoteric Doctrines
course director: Wiesław Bator
course code: G/42
prerequisites: G/41 - Magic - Yesterday and Today
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: The course aims at presentation of western (occidental) and syncretic esoterictradional worldviews, their relations with philosophies and religions of West and East. It tries also to resolve the prolem of their unflagging popularity in the contemporary world.
methods of evaluation: oral colloquium or an essay (optional)
form of credit: valued credit
The course is run every two eyar in exchange with G/41: Magic - Yestarday and Today

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Modern Culture Myths
course director: Izabela Trzcińska
course code: G/43
prerequisites: G/01 - Introduction into the Study of Religon
classification: facultative
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: the cours is connected with the problem of functioning of myth in contemporary culture. Are they comparable with the “classical” understanding of mythology; what problem solving do they propose and in what kind of images do they appear? The key problem is the issue of hte mythical hero and his struggle on the base of modern pop-culture tales and iconography. Is in the time of post-modernism and mass-culture the mythical hero still necessary? If so how is the mythical screenplay expressed?
methods of evaluation: an essay
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Anthropology of New Age
course director: Bartłomiej Dobroczyński
course code: G/44
prerequisites: D/01 - Psychology of Religion
classification: facultative
number of hours: 45
semester: summer
course form: lecture + practical work on materials
credits: 3 (4,5 ECTS)
description: The course aims at presentation of history, background and content of the phenomenon called anthropology of New Age. Main precursory ideas will be presented: selected religious and mystic texts from different times and cultures (“deep soul” concepts); psychology of the Unconscious, Jungian individuation, “eternal philosophy” (philosophia perennis) in Aldous Huxley formulation. Counter-culture instant mystic and popular versions of oriental religions. Some tribal ideas and contemporary shamanism. Fundamental aim of the introduction is the preparation to the full understanding of hte main ideas of transpersonal psychology (Stanislav Grof, Ken Wilber).
methods of evaluation: activity on classes + exam
form of credit: oral exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Evolution of Religious Pluralism in USA
course director: Tadeusz Paleczny
course code: G/45
prerequisites: F/02 Modern and Contemporary Christianity
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: The course aims at the reconstruction of the process of establishing an American religious pluralism. Characteristics of the major religious groups and relations between them, Ethnic and racial origins of the American denominational system is also discussed.
methods of evaluation: attendance
form of credit: valued credit
 

Foreign Languages (G)

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Latin
course director:
course code: G/08
prerequisites: none
classification: facultative
number of hours: 120
semester: winter + summer (2 years)
course form: conversatory
credits: 8 (12 ECTS)
description: Elements of Latin grammar and vocabulary
methods of evaluation: exam
form of credit: exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Hebrew
course director: Tomasz Sikora
course code: G/09
prerequisites: none
classification: facultative
number of hours: 120
semester: winter + summer (2 years)
course form: conversatory
credits: 8 (12 ECTS)
description: 1st year: Hebrew alphabet and its transcription. An article and unhyphened preposition. Personal and indicative pronouns: interrogative and reflexive. Pronounal sufixes. Noun and adjective decliantion Conniugation or regular verbs. Reading: Gn 9-11). Irregular verbs conniugation. 2nd year: Narratives (Ruth, psalms etc., depending on the group interest). The cours aims at providing background for independent translation of easier and verifying difficult texts.
methods of evaluation: exam
form of credit: exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Persian
course director: Elżbieta Wnuk-Lisowska
course code: G/11
prerequisites: none
classification: facultative
number of hours: 180
semester: winter + summer (2 years)
course form: conversatory
credits: 9 (12 ECTS)
description: The cours aims at providing background for reading the original persian religious poetry and philosphical tractats. Alphabet, practical grammar and elements of Persian.
methods of evaluation: exam
form of credit: exam

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Translatory of English Professional Texts
course director: Paweł Socha
course code: G/14
prerequisites: English course passed
classification: facultaive
number of hours: 60
semester: winter
course form: classes
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: Elaboration of translations for different purposes (paper, quotation, summary, philological translation, printed transaltion) the rles of translating texts, broadening of the professional vocaabulary. Practical training regarding scientific language - expressions, phraseology and language structure.
methods of evaluation: essay (translation)
form of credit: valued credit

faculty & institute: philosophical, study of religion
course name: Translatory of German Professional Texts
course director: Kazimiera Mikoś
course code: G/15
prerequisites: German course passed
classification: facultative
number of hours: 30
semester: summer
course form: conversatory
credits: 2 (3 ECTS)
description: Rules of German text translating, broadening the professional vocabulary. Improvement of professional German literature usage.
methods of evaluation: an essay (translation)
form of credit: valued credit

MASTER DEGREE SEMINARS

ass. prof. Irena Borowik – sociology of religion
ass. prof. Stanisław Cinal
– history of religion
prof. Jan Drabina
– history of ancient and medieval Christianity
prof. Bogumił Grott
– history of modern Christianity, history of beliefs in Poland, politology of religion
prof. Halina Grzymała Moszczyńska
– psychology of religion
prof. Antoni Jackowski
– geography of religion
prof. Jerzy Ochman
– philosophy of religion
prof. Włodzimierz Pawluczuk
– sociology of religion, phenomenology of religion
prof. Karol Tarnowski
– philosophy of religion
ass prof. Łukasz Trzciński
– history of religions of the East, anthropology of religion