Cultures and Religions

The course - provides the student with knowledge and understanding of the methodological and critical-problematic aspects of the Discipline as well as application issues; proposes area and sectoral perspectives in which research projects relating to the Discipline are active or can be activated; shows the variability of the fields of interest within which disciplinary skills can be applied (descriptor 1); - develops the student's autonomous ability to relate what has been learned with other SSDs: historical, literary, artistic, cultural, economic, political, historical-religious disciplines, etc. (descriptor 2); - enables the student to use the acquired knowledge and the specific learned language in view of the so-called "transversal skills" (autonomy of judgment, communication skills, descriptors 3-5). More specifically this course aims to develop an analysis of the Himalayan religions grounded on a perspective taking into account dynamic entanglements and interactions between cultures, languages, religions and environment, pointing, on the one hand, to their general appreciation as part of the larger frameworks of the established philosophical and religious traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism, but, on the other hand, highlighting also their limits and the specificity of local and less known religious configurations, as in the case, for example, of indigenous religions or heterodox movements.