Religion and Social Work

Degree: 1
Year: 4
Study program: Social work

Holder: Srečo Dragoš
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Subject content:
  • The division of scientific disciplines: religiology, the sociology of religion, social anthropology, theology, social work.
  • The basic theoretical approaches to the study of religions (Marxism, functionalism, symbolic interactionism, Weber's approach, phenomenology, psychologist approaches).
  • Different theoretical definitions and forms of transcendence, belief and religion. Types of religious communities.
  • Connections between religious belief, religion and other phenomena (social stratification, ethnicity, morality, solidarity and social capital, politics, social policy, wars, power, fundamentalism).
  • Religious secularisation and revitalisation of faith.
  • Popular religiosity.
  • New Age religiosity.
  • »Superstition«.
  • Empirical data about faith and religiosity in Slovenia and in Europe.
  • Social function of the Catholic karitas.
  • Relationship with social work.