Teaching about religion at university: feedback from a cross-disciplinary course

Round table organized online by the PLIDAM team
Enseigner le fait religieux en milieu universitaire : Retour d’expérience d’un parcours transversal
Enseigner le fait religieux en milieu universitaire : Retour d’expérience d’un parcours transversal © Pexels / Suzy Hazelwood‎

The teaching of religion at INALCO has accumulated enough experience to take a critical, distanced look at its subject. Two aspects were addressed during this round table. On the one hand, a theoretical interrogation, focusing on the adaptation of concepts to different cultural and historical contexts and, on the other, a practical interrogation analyzing the pre-formatting of students and the challenges it poses to the teacher in designing his or her course. This exchange brings together INALCO teachers only, and proposes to reflect on the responses to these different pedagogical challenges.

 

Session I: 14h-15h30

Edouard L'Hérisson, Les difficultés qui surgissent autour de la notion de "religion" dans son acception asiatique

Madalina Joubert, "Ce que nous pensons déjà connaître nous empêche d'apprendre plus (Claude Bernard)". Reflections from the teaching of Judaism

Daniela Campo, Teaching the religions of China

Pause 15:30-16:00

Session II: 16:00-17:30

Ilya Platov, Secularization in the Russian context and its difference from Western conception/experience.

Etienne Naveau, Teaching religious pluralism in Indonesia between dogmatism and relativism : currents and denominations.

Stéphane Arguillère, How to take into account the heterogeneity of a religion's discourses in its academic presentation?

Contact: Madalina Vartejanu-Joubert, View e-mail

Online event: https://zoom.us/j/92080951246