COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MISSIONARY AND INTERFAITH DIALOGUE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ILS 3178 MISSIONARY AND INTERFAITH DIALOGUE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Theology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HAKKI ŞAH YASDIMAN

Offered to

Theology
Theology (Evening)

Course Objective

To provide students an environment to get knowledge and discuss about: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jewish, Christianity, Islam, and other religions positions for missionary; to see the relation between missionary and dialog activities; to see dialog activities and its purposes; to get knowledge about Vatican councils and their purposes; to get information about missionary groups in Turkey; to see the possibilities and conditions for a healthy and substantial dialogs.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   They will know the missionary activities. They can also see the positions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jewish, Christianity and Islam in terms of missionary activities
2   They will know the Dialog activities and their purposes
3   They will see the relation between missionary and dialog activities
4   They will conclude the possibility of dialog from the common things (motifs) in religions
5   They will get used to look at religions other than Islam objectively

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: the aim, importance, sources and goals of the subject. The terms of mission and missionary
2 The history of missionary; emergency, developments, and missionary in Turkey
3 The goals and activities of, raising missioners, the methods of workings
4 Missionary and religions; Hinduism, Buddhism, Jewish, Christianity and other religions
5 The new religious movements and missionary; Islam and Tabligh; difference of Tabligh from missionary
6 The decisions taken II. Vatican council and missionary
7 The term of dialog; Missionary and dialog relation
8 Mid-term Exam
9 The dialog activities in the past and today. The Alliance of Civilizations and interfaith dialog
10 Interfaith dialog activities in Turkey: the institutions, foundations and individuals who works within these activities
11 Dialog for religions: Jewish, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others
12 Islam and Interfaith dialog
13 Approaches to Interfaith dialog (critics) Conditions of a healthy and substantial dialog
14 The place of Interfaith dialog in the campaign against some problem related to World Peace, environmental pollution, drugs, hunger, etc. -general summary and discussion
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Şinasi Gündüz-Mahmut Aydın, Misyonerlik, Istanbul 2002
Mustafa Erdem, Misyonerlik Faaliyetleri ve Türkiye, Ankara 2005
Türkiye de Misyonerlik Faaliyetleri, Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı Yayınları, Ankara, 2003
Türkiye de Misyonerlik Faaliyetleri, Editör, Ömer Faruk Harman, Istanbul 2005
Mustafa Alıcı, Müslüman-Hıristiyan Diyaloğu, Iz Yayıncılık, Istanbul
Ali Isra Güngör, Vatikan Misyon ve Diyalog, Ankara, 2002
Mahmut Aydın, Monologdan Diyaloğa, Ankara, 2001

Şinasi Gündüz, Misyonerlik, DIB Yay., Ankara, 2005
Güngör, Türkiye'de Misyoner Faaliyetleri, Ötüken Yay., Istanbul, 2005
Türkiye de Misyonerlik Faaliyetleri, Ensar Neşriyat, Istanbul, 2004
Hint Kökenli Dinlerin Türkiye deki Faaliyetleri , Türkiye deki Misyonerlik Çalışmaları, Tartışmalı Ilmî Toplantı, Istanbul, 2004
Mustafa Köylü, Çağdaş Batı ve Islam Düşüncesinde Dinlerarası Diyalog, Insan Yayınları, Istanbul, 2001

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Homework and Presentation: Students prepares homework in each semester, and present it in class.
Exam: two sit-in exams for each semester. A mid-term and a final
Lecture, questionnaire, homework and practice, literature searching, seminar and group study.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + BUT * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Homework and Presentation: Students prepares homework in each semester, and present it in class.
Exam: two sit-in exams for each semester. A mid-term and a final

Assessment Criteria

The students will be assessed based on success in their mid-term and final exams along with their performance during the classes throughout the semester.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

yasdiman@yahoo.com; hakki.ydiman@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 14:30 15:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 56

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51