| Course Unit Code | Course Unit Title | Type of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | Number of ECTS Credits | | SEÇ3462017371 | NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN THE WEST | Elective | 3 | 6 | 2 |
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| Level of Course Unit |
| First Cycle |
| Objectives of the Course |
| The main aim of this class is to enable students who studied for Theology to recognize nature and key features of new religious movements which arise in today’s World. |
| Name of Lecturer(s) |
| Asim DURAN |
| Learning Outcomes |
| 1 | Students have information about quality of new religious movements that arise in around the World especially in the West for last 200 years. | | 2 | Students gain ability to analyse reasons for emergence of new religious movements | | 3 | Students gain ability to compare new religious movement with institutional religions |
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| Mode of Delivery |
| Formal Education |
| Prerequisites and co-requisities |
| None |
| Recommended Optional Programme Components |
| None |
| Course Contents |
| In this class, religious movements that arise in around the World especially in the West for last 200 years and have described as new religious movements will be examined. |
| Weekly Detailed Course Contents |
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| 1 | The concept of “New Religious Movement” and Movements that are Included by the Concept. | | | | 2 | Diversity in Contemporary New Religious Movements | | | | 3 | Basic Characteristics of New Religious Movements | | | | 4 | UFO Sects | | | | 5 | God’s Community | | | | 6 | Charismatic Movement | | | | 7 | Satanism | | | | 8 | Mid-exam | | | | 9 | Mormons | | | | 10 | New Paganism | | | | 11 | Hare Krishna Movement | | | | 12 | Opus Dei and Quakers | | | | 13 | Jehovah's Witnesses | | | | 14 | General Assessment | | | | 15 | Final Exam | | |
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| Recommended or Required Reading |
| A. Rafet Özkan, Kıyamet Tarikatları/Yeni Dini Hareketler, İstanbul: IQ Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık, 2006.Eileen Barker, New Religious Movements; A Practical Introduction, London, 1989Ali Köse, Milenyum Tarikatları, Timaş Yay., 2011.Irving Hexham, Understanding Cults and New Religions, Michigan 1987Ronald Enroth, Tarikatlar ve Yeni Dinler, İstanbul 1998.Lorne L. Dawson, Cults and New Religious Movements, Blackwell Publishing, 2003.Ahmet Güç, Satanizm, Alfa Yay., 1999. |
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| Assessment Methods and Criteria | |
| SUM | 0 | |
| SUM | 0 | | Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri | 40 | | Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri | 60 | | SUM | 100 |
| | Language of Instruction | | Turkish | | Work Placement(s) | | None |
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| Workload Calculation |
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| Midterm Examination | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Final Examination | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Attending Lectures | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Writing Paper | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Individual Study for Mid term Examination | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Individual Study for Final Examination | 1 | 10 | 10 |
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| Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes |
| LO1 | | | | | | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | | LO2 | | | | | | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | | LO3 | | | | | | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
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| * Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |
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