1	Course Title:	SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS
2	Course Code:	FDB6133
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	Third Cycle
5	Year of Study:	1
6	Semester:	1
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	7
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	3
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	None
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. VEJDI BİLGİN
16	Course Lecturers:	-
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Bursa U.Ü. İlahiyat Fakültesi, Bursa vbilgin@uludag.edu.tr, 0224.2431570/60342
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	To help students have a sociological perspective that will enable them to make assessments about social movements in general and religious movements in particular.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	Students get to know contemporary religious movements.

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Learning Outcomes:

1 Students will learn the theories on social movements.; 2 Students become knowledgeable about religious-social movements in West; 3 Students become knowledgeable about religious movements in Turkey and Islamic World;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	The concept of social movement
2	Development and change of social movements
3	Religious movement and religious group
4	Functionalist approach to social movements
5	Marxist approach to social movements
6	The approaches of Tocqueville and Davies to social movements
7	New religious movements in West
8	Jehovah’s Witnesses
9	Hare-Krishna Movement
10	Christian-Fundamentalist movement in U.S.A.
11	New religious movements in Islamic world: General perspective
12	New Islamic movements: The case of Egypt
13	New Islamic movements: The case of Turkey
14	The future of religious movements in modern world

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Ali Coşkun (Ed.), Mesih’i Beklerken, İstanbul, 2003. Ali Köse, Milenyum Tarikatları: Batı’da Yeni Dini Akımlar, İstanbul, 2006. Ali Rafet Özkan, Fundamentalist Hristiyanlık: Yedinci Gün Adventizmi, Ankara, 2002. Hamid İnayet, Çağdaş İslami Siyasi Düşünce, Çev. Yusuf Ziya, İstanbul, 1988. Recep Şentürk, Yeni Din Sosyolojileri, İstanbul, 2004. S. Sayyid, Fundamentalizm Korkusu, Çev. E. Ceylan, N. Yılmaz, Ankara, 2000. Wuthnow, Robert, Matthew P. Lawson, “Sources of Christian Fundamentalism in the United States,” Accounting for Fundamentalisms, Ed. Martin E. Marty, R. Scott Appleby, The University of Chicago Pres, Chicago 1994, s. 13-47.
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	1	20
Final Exam	1	80
Total	2	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		20
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		80
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course	Measurement and evaluation are performed according to the Rules & Regulations of Bursa Uludağ University on Undergraduate Education.
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ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	3	42
Practicals/Labs	0	0	0
Self Study and Preparation	0	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	1	30	30
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	0	0	0
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	138	138
Total WorkLoad			210
Total workload/ 30 hr			7
ECTS Credit of the Course			7

26	CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS
PQ1 PQ2 PQ3 PQ4 PQ5 PQ6 PQ7 PQ8 PQ9 PQ10 PQ11 PQ12 LO1 3 3 4 3 4 2 2 3 4 3 4 4 LO2 3 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 5 3 4 4 LO3 4 4 3 4 4 3 4 3 3 4 3 5

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High