COURSE UNIT TITLE

: RELIGION AND AESTHETIC

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FDB 5088 RELIGION AND AESTHETIC 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 OSMAN BILEN

Offered to

Philosophy and Religious Sciences

Course Objective

To understand and realize the importance of several symbols and art works that used by members of different traditions for reflecting aesthetically their faiths, teachings about God or other spiritual powers or creators, which are accepted the reason all elements of lifes, such as life-death-cause of universe etc. in the living religions. To interpret aesthetical values of symbolic expressions that used for religious experiences and faiths.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   They will have knowledge about the contents of values and faiths that resembles to aesthetical objects of several religious traditions
2   They will know aesthetical expressions of the `holy' by getting familiar with the relation between religious experience and aesthetical experience
3   They will develop an `understanding and sensitivity' about religious experience forms that mentioned in several arts forms of living religions in the world
4   They can make a connection between religious arts forms and specific understandings of the `holyness'.
5   They can evaluate critically the human behaviours, practices and attitudes as an expression of religions that was happened in historical periods and can be observed in personal and social life as their effects on.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Epstemology of values: Philosophy of Religion and Aesthetics
2 Aesthetik oriented method of studying precognitive contents of religious experience with feelings of awe or ecstasy
3 Relation between beauty as the object of Aesthetic and the holy as the intuitive content of religious expereince
4 Astethetic forms employed in religious rituals: Plastic, verbal expressions
5 Classifications of world religions according to audio visiual representations of holy
6 Hegel's classification of religions according to the aesthetic represantation of the holy.
7 Nature as the representation of the holy in myths and non-theistic religions
8 Mid-term Exam
9 Chinese religions and aestetic represations of holy
10 Indian religons and sybolic respreasantations of the divine
11 Juadism and non-reprasantation of the Divine
12 Chrisitanity and visual represantation of the Holy
13 Islam and aestetics of the Word of God.
14 Religious aspects of secular art forms

Recomended or Required Reading

Seminer konusu ile ilgili kitap ve makaleler
Ana kaynak:
Richard VILADESAU, God in Imagination, Beauty, and Art, 1999
A.K. Coomaraswamy, The Dance of Shiva,1918
Yardımcı kaynaklar:
Turan Koç, Islam Estetiği, 2008.
Ismail Tunalı, Estetik, 2008;
Umberto Eco, Ortaçağ Estetiğinde Sanat ve Güzellik, 2009.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, research, Analyze the texts and terms, questining, assignments.

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

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)

osman.bilen@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday: 16.00 - 17.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Reading 1 7 7
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.143454
LO.243454
LO.343454
LO.443454
LO.543454

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