Learning objectives
The course aims to providing the student with the ability to deal with religious differences according to constitutional principles and the Italian laws.
At the end of the course, the student will demonstrate knowledge of and the ability to use:
a) the concepts of secularism and concerning the intercultural relations between religion, law and the grammar of legal subjectivity;
b) the principles of religious freedom and rules relating to the discipline of the religious phenomenon in the Italian legal system;
c) the legal rules and the standard of judging elaborated by courts and scholars regarding the sources of doctrinal and ecclesiastical law, the relationship between law and religion, religious marriages, religious institutions and, in general, the situations in which the cultural and / or religious difference is legally relevant.
Prerequisites
In order to take the examination of ecclesiastical law the student must have passed the examinations of Institutions of Private Law, Principles of Roman Law and Constitutional Law.
Course unit content
The course concerns the issues about the the relationship between law and religion. It will be dealt with the basics of religious rights and issues related to the religious dimension in the different legal traditions of the world. The attention will be paid mainly to the influence of matrix Buddhist, Confucian, Christian, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim. The themes are manifold and involve theoretical, historical, cultural, anthropological, semiotic profiles and positive law. Particular attention will be given to the pragmatic and normative projections of intercultural secularism/laicité and their implications on religion / law relationship.
Full programme
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Bibliography
Reference books
M. RICCA, Pantheon. Agenda della laicità interculturale, edizioni Wind Towers, Palermo, 2012, pp. 9-462, except pp. 203-246, pp. 421-463.
or
M. RICCA, Culture interdette. Modernità, migrazioni, diritto interculturale, (forthcoming), pp. 1-310.
As recommended reading, we suggest consulting the following, only the parts shown:
P. GLENN, Tradizioni giuridiche del mondo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011, limited to the following page: from p. 293 to p. 371; from p. 455 to p. 558.
Teaching methods
The course consists of frontal lessons supplemented by sessions dedicated to the dialectic discussions on practical cases.
Assessment methods and criteria
1. The knowledge and understanding ability of the students will be tested by at least two questions concerning the principles and normative implications of the intercultural secularism and ecclesiastical law.
2. The ability to project their knowledge into practice and to independently assess the situations will be tested by inviting the student to engage in the qualification of legally relevant situations making use of the methods of analysis of the ecclesiastical law declined according to an interreligious and intercultural approach.
3. Learning skills will be assessed on the basis of the attitude shown by the student to use in a dynamic and creative way the concepts learned during the course and through the study of the texts.
Other information
When it will be possible, practitioners and scholars of interfaith and intercultural issues will be invited to participate in the course.
