CURSO : ANTROPOLOGIA DE LA RELIGION
TRADUCCION : ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION
SIGLA : SOL160A
CRÉDITOS : 10
MÓDULOS : 2+1
REQUISITOS : SIN REQUISITOS
CARÁCTER : OPTATIVO
DISCIPLINA : ANTROPOLOGIA
I. DESCRIPCION
El curso analiza distintas perspectivas antropologicas clasicas y contemporaneas sobre la religion,
encuadrando algunas teorias claves y sus implicaciones. En particular, explora los resultados del encuentro
entre religiones locales y la ortodoxia de religiones tradicionales (principalmente Cristiandad). Asimismo,
ofrece una exploracion de estos temas a traves de etnografias en distintos contextos culturales y geograficos.
II. OBJETIVOS
1. Estudiar y conocer los temas y los debates tradicionales y contemporaneos sobre la religion.
2. Reconocer cuestiones antropologicas fundamentales y sus aplicaciones en la vida social adquiriendo
una vision critica de las distintas contribuciones examinadas en el curso.
3. Conocer y comprender distintas formas en que los mismos universales se asumen en distintas
sociedades, por medio del analisis y la comparacion; reconociendo sus expresiones practicas en la vida
diaria de distintos contextos sociales.
III. CONTENIDOS
1. El problema de la conversion: casos de estudio (Amazonia, Andes, Chiloe).
2. Conversion y modernidad: el fundamentalismo norteamericano.
3. Mormonismo.
4. La muerte y los ancestros.
5. Los santos y la mediacion.
6. El concepto de imitacion (Filipinas).
7. La importancia del cuerpo.
8. El cuerpo cristiano.
9. Religiosidad en el cotidiano.
10. Ritos de pasaje.
11. Rituales y violencia; Ritual y memoria.
12. Facetas de la Cristiandad.
13. Los Peregrinajes.
14. Magia/supersticion; Brujeria.
15. Entre religion tradicional y resistencia politica.
16. Chamanismo y posesion de espiritus.
17. Cosmologia y sociedad: la Amazonia.
IV. METODOLOGIA
- Clases expositivas.
- Lecturas de textos teoricos y etnograficos.
- Ejercicios basicos de exposiciones por parte de los alumnos.
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V. EVALUACION
- Primera prueba escrita: 35%
- Segunda prueba escrita: 35%
- Ensayo final: 30%
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