COURSE SYLLABUS

ORTHODOXY AND HERESY IN RELIGIONS

1	Course Title:	ORTHODOXY AND HERESY IN RELIGIONS
2	Course Code:	FDB5156
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	Second Cycle
5	Year of Study:	1
6	Semester:	2
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	6
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	3
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Doç.Dr. BÜLENT ŞENAY
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Doç.Dr. Bülent Şenay U.Ü. İlahiyat Fakültesi Felsefe ve Din Bilimleri Bölümü bshanay@uludag.edu.tr
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	To examine, based on cross-cultural and cross-historical approaches, the concepts of orthodoxy and heresy in three religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam in order to explore how religious identities are historicized, spatialized, and embodied, through attempting to learn how scholars apply the notions of orthodoxy or heresy.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

Learning Outcomes:

1	Students will be introduced to the emergence and influence of heresy in the shaping of orthodoxy in religions.;
2	Students will be able to look into the question of heresy in the context of the tendency of people to divide the world into "Us" and "Them," to define one’s own identity by constructing an "Other.";
3	Students will gain a perspective allowing them to question and problematize notions of orthodoxy, heresy, sect, denomination, ethnicity/race, gender and religious identity in our own time, and recognize that these categories may not be unchanging absolutes but rather have different dimensions and meant different things to different people throughout history.;
4	Students will be able to analyse current theological issues in light of the history of orthodoxy and heresy.;
5	Students will be able to pursue their own particular interest in religious traditions under the expert guidance of their tutors as a stepping stone towards research in the subject area of the dissertation, subject to the usual conditions of acceptance for research degrees.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Orthodoxy, Heresy and Heresiography in Religions
2	Constructing “Orthodoxy” and “Heresy”
3	Authority and Heresy in Religions
4	Heresy and Polemical Literature
5	Orthodoxy and Heresy in Judaism
6	Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Christianity
7	Orthodoxy and Heresy in Medieval Christianity
8	Orthodoxy and Heresy in Contemporary Christianity
9	Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Islam
10	Orthodoxy and Heresy in Medieval Islam
11	Orthodoxy and Heresy in Contemporary Islam
12	Comparison of Orthodoxies in Three Religious Traditions
13	Comparison of Heresies in Three Religious Traditions
14	Evaluation of Student Essays

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	• J. Henderson, The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy, University of New York, 1998. • Bülent Şenay, Markûnilik: İlk Rafızi Hıristiyan Kilisesi, Verka yayınları, Bursa, 2003. • Sacha Stern (ed) Sects and Sectarianism in Jewish History, Brill, Leiden, 2011. • I. Hunter, J. C. Laursen, & C. J. Nederman, Heresy in Transition in Medieval And Early Modern Europe Catholic Christendom, (1300-1700) 2005. • G.R. Evans, A Brief History of Heresy, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. • R. Grant, Heresy and Criticism: The Search for Authenticity in Early Christian Literature, 1993. • A. Schremer, Brothers Estranged: Heresy, Christianity and Jewish Identity in Late Antiquity, Oxford Univ Press, 2010. • S. Martin, The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages, Pocket Essentials, Herts/UK, 2009. • R. Hoyland, Islam as Others Saw It -Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam, The Darwin Press, Princeton 1997. • J. Waardenburg, Muslims and Others, Walter de Gruyter, 2003. • M. N. Swanson, D. Thomas & E. Grypeou (eds), The Encounter of Eastern Christianity With Early Islam, Brill, Leiden, 2006. • A. Majid A Call for Heresy Why Dissent Is Vital to Islam and America, University of Minnesota, 2007. • Khaled Abou El Fadl , Rebellion and Violence in Islamic Law 2001. • Mohammed Hashim Kamali, Freedom of Expression in Islam, Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge, 1997. • M M Azami The History of the Quranic Text, UK Islamic Academy, Leicester, 2003.
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	30
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	1	30
Final Exam	1	40
Total	3	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		60
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		40
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course
Information

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	3	42
Practicals/Labs	0	0	0
Self Study and Preparation	10	11	110
Homeworks, Performances	1	10	20
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	1	4	4
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	4	4
Total WorkLoad			180
Total workload/ 30 hr			6
ECTS Credit of the Course			6

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

	PQ1	PQ2	PQ3	PQ4	PQ5	PQ6	PQ7	PQ8	PQ9	PQ10	PQ11
LO1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LO2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LO3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LO4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LO5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High