Religious Studies - History - RETA8042

• Title: RPV2-Religious Studies - History
• Guaranteed by: Department of Religious Studies (27-R)
• Faculty: Protestant Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: both
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 2
• Hours per week, examination: 2/0, C [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: prof. Pavel Hošek, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: doc. Mgr. Pavol Bargár, Ph.D. (28.01.2024)

Religious Studies - History: History of Christianity as a World Religion

This course will explore the historical development of Christianity beyond a Eurocentric and denominationally-focused perspective. In other words, it will introduce Christianity as a world religion. Methodologically, it will proceed both diachronically and synchronically, following multiple trajectories and examining various aspects. Furthermore, various approaches to studying “World Christianity” will be considered.
The course is designed as a seminar centered around close reading of selected texts.
The aim of the course is to understand how Christianity has become a multidimensional, polyform and polycentric phenomenon, truly a world religion.

Literature

Last update: doc. Mgr. Pavol Bargár, Ph.D. (28.01.2024)

Kim, Sebastian, and Kirsteen Kim. Christianity as a World Religion: An Introduction, 2^nd edition. London: Bloomsbury, 2016.

Cabrita, Joel, David Maxwell, and Emma Wild-Wood, eds. Relocating World Christianity: Interdisciplinary Studies in Universal and Local Expressions of the Christian Faith. Boston: Brill, 2017.

 

Bevans, Stephen B., and Roger P. Schroeder. Constants in Context: A Theology of Mission for Today. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004.

Chow, Alexander, and Emma Wild-Wood, eds. Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity: Historical Studies in Honour of Brian Stanley. Boston: Brill, 2020.

Irvin, Dale, and Scott W. Sunquist. History of the World Christian Movement. Volume II: Modern Christianity from 1454 – 1800. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012.

Stanley, Brian. Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.

Sunquist, Scott W. The Unexpected Christian Century: The Reversal and Transformation of Global Christianity, 1900–2000. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2015.