| CODE | IAL1016 | ||||||
| TITLE | Inter-Religious Engagement in Cultural Mediation | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Inclusion and Access to Learning | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will assist the students in developing an understating of the operation of cultural mediation from a religious perspective. Thus, the study-unit is formulated on a threefold educational operation: - Deconstruction of one's understanding of faith and religion by engaging critically with ones own traditions and belief systems. - Development of an understanding of religion as a phenomenon that needs to be taken in consideration during the different faces of cultural mediation. - Engaging with praxes and operations that assist in the creation of dialogical relation with people of different faith traditions. Study-Unit Aims: The aim of this study-unit is to develop a critical understanding and engagement with the religions and faith traditions as a means for cultural mediation operation. Thus, the study-unit explores the role of religions and faith traditions as a dialogical tool in the cultural mediation accompaniment. The dialogical tools that will be explored are conveyed through notions of multiculturalism, complexification and intersectionality. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Define the notion of multi-religious and multiculturalism and their complimentary role; - Recognize the value of religion and faith tradition in the process of cultural mediation; - Identify dialogical tools to engage with diverse religious and faith tradition; - Critically review one's stance of religious praxes; - Locate the historical importance of the three Mediterranean monotheistic faiths in relation to multicultural development. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Apply the theoretical understanding of dialogical engagement to the cultural mediation operation; - Analyse the multicultural possibilities through inter-religious engagement; - Contrast different dialogical and dialectic operations; - Criticise exclusive practices to religions and faith traditions; - Employ an inclusive approach to diverse religions and faith traditions and praxes. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Feuerverger, G. Oasis of Dreams: Teaching and Learning Peace in a Jewish-Palersinian Village in Israel, London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2001. - Modood, T. Multiculturalism, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013. Supplementary Readings: - Bauman, Z. Strangers at Our Door, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Francois Mifsud |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2024/5. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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