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HS Cults, Sects, and Fringe Movements [Import]- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Pascal Fischer
- Angaben
- Hauptseminar
Präsenz + Online-Anteile
2 SWS, benoteter Schein
Erweiterungsbereich
Zeit und Ort: Mi 10:00 - 12:00, U5/00.24
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
M.A. English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erweiterungsbereich English an American Studies:
Master Module or Profile Module I or III British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- active participation
- presentation
- term-paper according to the style-sheet
An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
October 4 until October 22, 2021
via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
- Inhalt
- After being widely discussed in the 1970 and 80s, new religious movements, cults and sects gradually faded from the attention of the general public and the academy in following decades. Recently, however, there has been a new interest in religious minority groups and social movements centered on charismatic leaders – as evidenced by Netflix’ documentary Wild, Wild Country (2018) or the reporting on the 2019 trial of NXIVM members.
The seminar tries to understand cults, sects and fringe groups against the backdrop of American cultural history and a number of theoretical approaches. In the historical part of the class, we will study the reasons why religious minorities could flourish in America and why certain areas, namely the “Burned-over District” of western New York State, were particularly gripped by revivalist religious fervor in the nineteenth century. The origins of the Mormons and the Jehovah’s Witnesses will thus be highlighted.
The focus of the seminar will be on religious fringe groups in the second half of the 20th century and the present. We will look at ways the counterculture of the 1960s prepared the ground for alternative spiritualties and communal lifestyles in the 1970s and 80s, e.g. in the Peoples Temple or Rajneesh Movement. We will also take the impact of science (fiction) and UFO beliefs on religious groups into consideration, e.g. in Scientology, Heaven’s Gate or the Nation of Islam.
Apart from studying individual cults and sects, the seminar will pay attention to overarching issues that are widely discussed in the academic literature on new religious movements: Are the distinctions between mainstream religions on the one hand and sects and cults on the other really expedient and what are the advantages and disadvantages of these terms? How can we understand the psychology of cult membership? Does the term brainwashing have any explanatory power? What are the motives of the anti-cult movement? How have eschatological ideas transformed over time? What is the role of women in cults? Assuming a meta-perspective on the study of new religious movements, we will also look at the controversies between cult apologists and cult critics, sometimes called the “cult wars.”
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Advanced Seminar: Cults, Sects, and Fringe Movements
- Credits: 8
- Institution: Zentrum für Interreligiöse Studien / Centre for Interreligious Studies der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (ZIS)
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