Learning objectives
After the course students should be able to recognize and evaluate the implications of the interaction of religion and diplomacy. Also they should be able to take and defend a position related to religious claims and tensions in the global arena. The course should enable students to assess the religious implications of diplomacy, while equipping them to fruitfully engage in further education in the field of public and cultural diplomacy on the one hand, and the study of religion and belief on the other.
Prerequisites
None
Course unit content
Introduction to the religious literacy issue. Analysis of interaction of religion & diplomacy. Religious diplomacy, violence and peace. Religious diplomacy and development. Religious diplomacy, separation, establishment and religious engagement. Religious diplomacy and freedom of religion or belief.
Full programme
GLOBAL LAW AND RELIGIOSITY
1. Introduction
2. The Global Legal Context: A Conventional Definition
3. ‘Religions vs the Religious’
4. To What Extent are (Still) Religions Factors of Global Law?
5. Why and How Religious Individuals are Actors of Global
Law
RELIGIOSITY AND CLAIMS OF JUSTICE. THE 2011
REVOLUTION IN EGYPT AS A CASE STUDY
1. Introduction
2. The Sense of Injustice as the Starting Point of the Arab
Revolution
3. Competitive Orders. The Notion of Social Injustice in the
Religious Perspective and its Consequences on Legislation
4. Traditions of Justice in the Islamic Legal Culture
GLOBAL RELIGIOSITY AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE
1. Introduction
2. The Long Way Back to the Charter of Medina and Its Interest
for the Contemporary Reader
3. Understanding the Charter of Medina: The Tribal Society,
Customary Law, and the Role of the Prophet in Yathrib/
Medina
Remarkable Legislation and Terms of the Charter of
Medina: A Contemporary Legal Interpretation
5. The Charter of Medina as a Paradigm of Religious Diplomacy
6. Conclusions
TOWARD A ‘RELIGIOUS DIPLOMACY’?
1. Introduction
2. The Transition from International Law to “Global” Law.
The Controversial Role of Religion in Diplomacy
3. The Relevance of “Human” Religiosity in Global Law
4. Integrating Religious Engagement into Diplomacy
5. Conclusions
Bibliography
EBOOK - Giancarlo Anello, Believers United. Religions in Dialogue Through the Law, Milano, WOlters Kluver 2022
Teaching methods
Lectures and Seminars
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral Exam
Other information
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