COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTERRELIGIOUS RELATIONS, MISSIONARY AND DIALOGUE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 5203 INTERRELIGIOUS RELATIONS, MISSIONARY AND DIALOGUE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HAKKI ŞAH YASDIMAN

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

Introducing students the missionary activities, the places of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam in the missionary activities. To show students the relation between missionary activities and dialogue activities. To make students cognized the dialog activities and their aims. To gain knowledge about Councils of Vatican and the missionary groups faciliating in Turkey. To argue the healthy dialogue and its activities.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student will learn the missionary activities learn the positions of Islam, Judaism, Christianity toward the missionary activities.
2   The student will cognize the dialogue activities and their aim.
3   The student will be able to relate the missionary activities with dialogue activities.
4   The student will understand that the diologue is possibe because of their common motifs.
5   The student will gain the ability to look the religions objectively.
6   The student will improve healthy relations with other religions believers.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Importance of the course, subjects, sources Concepts of Mission, Missonary.
2 The history of missionary, its beginning, historical development and missonary in Turkey.
3 The aims of missionary, facilities, the growth of missionaries, working methods.
4 Religions and missionary, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and other religions.
5 New religions movement, missionary.
6 Islam and missionary. Missionary and Tabligh, their difference.
7 Midterm exam.
8 The decisions of the Second Council of Vatican and their relations with missonary activities.
9 The situation of dialogue between religions in history and today.The allegance between civilisations and dialogue between religions.
10 The dialogue activieties in Turkey. The institutions, individuals who participate in it.
11 Dialogue from the aspect of other religions. Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism.
12 Islam and other religions
13 The different approach to dialogue. The conditions of healthy and permanent dialogue,world peace, environmental pollution,drugs, famine etc..
14 The General evaluation of dialogue and argumentation.

Recomended or Required Reading

Ana kaynak:
- 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 Köylü, Çağdaş Batı ve Islam Düşüncesinde Dinlerarası Diyalog, Insan Yayınları, Istanbul, 2001
- Mustafa Alıcı, Müslüman-Hıristiyan Diyaloğu, Iz Yayıncılık, Istanbul
- Ali Isra Güngör, Vatikan Misyon ve Diyalog, Ankara, 2002
- Mahmut Aydın, Monologdan Diyaloğa, Ankara, 2001
- Hans Küng ve diğerleri, Christianity and World Religions: Paths of Dialogue with Islam, Hinduism, and Budhism, Orbis Books, New York, 1993
Yardımcı kaynaklar:
- Şinasi Gündüz, Misyonerlik, DIB Yay., Ankara, 2005
- Erol Güngör, Türkiye'de Misyoner Faaliyetleri, Ötüken Yay., Istanbul, 2005
- Türkiye'de Misyonerlik Faaliyetleri, Ensar Neşriyat, Istanbul, 2004

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, assignments, seminars.

Assessment Methods

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


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The success of attendant is examined by examination and lecture performances

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 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 7 7
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.23345
LO.33345
LO.43345
LO.53345
LO.63345