ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Classical, French and Italian Philology
Areas: Indo-European Linguistics
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
1. Knowledge of the main theoretical approaches to the religious fact and its relationship with literary expression.
2. Knowledge of the general outlines of the historical evolution of the religious fact and the diversity of religious literature in the world.
3. Knowledge of the main religious traditions of the world in their relationship with literary expression.
4. Practical application of the theoretical knowledge acquired in the course to the analysis and ideological and literary commentary of texts in their religious or spiritual dimension.
A. Theoretical Part:
1. Introduction. Definitions: 'religion', 'spirituality', 'literariness'. Diversity of perspectives on religion, mythology, literature and their mutual relations. 2. Phenomenology of the religious fact throughout time and its artistic and literary expression. The diversity of religious literatures. 3. Religious literature of the first civilizations: Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian. 4. Religious literature of ancient Indo-European traditions: Anatolia, Vedic and classical India (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism), pre-Islamic Iran (Zoroastrianism), Greece and Rome. 5. The literary traditions of the "religions of the Book": Hebrew, Christian and Islamic (Bible, Koran). 6. Medieval European religious literatures (Romance, Germanic, Celtic, Slavic). Renaissance and modern period. 7. Continuity and universality of religious literature. Literature and spirituality in contemporary times.
B. Practical part:
Analysis and commentary of literary texts of religious or mythological character.
1. Basic bibliography:
Frazer, J.G. 1906-1915 (3rd ed.) The Golden Bough. A Study in Comparative Religion, London, Macmillan & co.
Otto, R. 1917 Das Heilige. Über das Irrationale in der Idee des Göttlichen und sein Verhältnis zum Rationalen, Breslau, Trewendt & Granier. (Spanish translation: Lo santo. Lo racional y lo irracional en la idea de Dios. Madrid, Alianza, 1980)
Schmidt, W. 1930 Handbuch der vergleichende Religionsgeschichte, Münster, Aschendorff. (Spanisch translation: Manual de historia comparada de las religiones, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1932, 2nd ed. 1941).
Eliade, M. 1975-1983 Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses. I. De l’âge de la pierre aux mystères d’Eleusis (1975), II. De Gautama Bouddha au triomphe du christianisme (1978), III. De Mahomet à l’âge des Réformes (1983), Paris, Payot. (Spanish translation: Historia de las creencias y las ideas religiosas, Barcelona, Paidós, 2019)
Lanczkowski, G. 1980 Einführung in die Religionswissenschaft, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
Bueno, G. 1996 (2nd ed.) El animal divino. Ensayo de una filosofía materialista de la religión, Oviedo, Pentalfa Ediciones.
Knight, M. 2009 An Introduction to Religion and Literature, New York / London, Continuum International Publishing Group.
2. Complementary bibliography:
Kellens, J. 1994 Le panthéon de l’avesta ancien, Wiesbaden, Reichert.
Lowie, R.H. 1924 Primitive Religion, New York, Boni and Liveright. (Spanish translation: Religiones primitivas, Madrid, Alianza, 2nd ed. 1976)
Martín Velasco, J. 2017 Introducción a la fenomenología de la religión, Madrid, Trotta.
Muth, R. 1988 Einführung in die griechische und römische Religion, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
Oberlies, Th. 2012 Der Rigveda und seine Religion, Berlin, Verlag der Weltreligionen im Inselverlag.
Puhvel, J. 1987 Comparative Mythology, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press.
Schmitt, R. 1967 Dichtung und Dichtersprache in indogermanischer Zeit, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz.
Watkins, C. 1995 How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics, Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press.
West, M.L. 2007 Indo-European Poetry and Myth, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
1. Ability to make a theoretical and critical assessment of religious fact in its literary expression.
2. Competence in the practical use of the various tools and bibliographical resources available for the study of religiousness and spirituality in its literary aspect.
3. Competence in the characterisation of a literary text of a religious or mythological nature in its cultural and chronological context.
4. Ability to comment on literary texts of a religious, mythological or spiritual nature.
The course is conceived as a face-to-face course. Of the three hours of class per week, between half an hour and an hour will be devoted to solving practical problems (commentary on literary texts of a religious nature).
The teacher may propose compulsory and recommended readings. Students may propose further study of specific aspects of the syllabus that are of particular interest to them.
The main work materials and texts will be available in the Virtual Classroom.
The evaluation criteria will be the following (valid for both opportunities):
1st) Active participation in classes and completion of text commentary exercises (continuous assessment): 30% of the grade.
2nd) The final assessment (which will account for 70% of the total grade) will consist of the completion and submission of a work of literary text commentary of a religious, mythological or spiritual nature. This work must accredit the student's ability to apply the knowledge and skills acquired during the course.
3rd) Students who are excused from class attendance must only hand in a paper consisting of a commentary on a literary text of a religious, mythological or spiritual nature (100% of the grade).
In the case of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the "Regulations for the evaluation of students' academic performance and revision of grades" will apply.
Subject of 3 ECTS credits (3x25 = 75 h of workload for the student).
These credits are divided into 1.5 theoretical and 1.5 practical.
Work directed by the teacher: 37.5 hours (50%) [: 20 hours (53.3%) of face-to-face activity (three hours per week / second term) and 17.5 hours (46.6%) of directed non-face-to-face activity].
Autonomous student work: 37.5 hours (50%).
It is recommended that students attend classes regularly or, if this is not possible, maintain regular contact with the teacher through tutorials (face-to-face or virtual). Likewise, it is essential to maintain a regular rhythm of work and follow the course contents.
Jose Virgilio Garcia Trabazo
Coordinador/a- Department
- Classical, French and Italian Philology
- Area
- Indo-European Linguistics
- Phone
- 881811888
- josevirgilio.garcia [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 18:15-20:15 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | C03 |
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| 18:15-20:15 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Spanish | C03 |
| 05.22.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | D03 |
| 06.27.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | D03 |