Understanding Mindsets, Values & Rules through Religious Traditions (2235.YR.009922.1)

General information

Type:	OPT	Curs:	1	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	5 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Year 1	Josep F. Mària Serrano	Ciencias Sociales	ENG

No particular prerequisit

Capacity to discuss about values and mindsets based on texts, images and music.

Lectures: 21 hours
Independent work: 29 hours

A manager in a global world needs to have a clear idea of the mindsets, values and rules that shape the different societies where firms operate. Religions stand at the heart of such societies. A deep insight on the institutions, rules and values of these religious traditions is an excellent tool to properly understand the peculiarities of societies.
However, a religious tradition cannot be caught or deeply understood if one pretends to analyze it "from the outside". Images, music and texts from a religious tradition are cultural objects that need to be experimented in order to understand the root or last inspiration of the religious mindsets, values and rules that shape societies in today's world. These experiments -proposed in the course- are exercises of cultural adaptation that develop in the participants necessary skills to be successful and responsible global managers.

1) Learning the main mindsets, values and rules of the world's major religions and their influence in the different societies.
2) Coming to a deep understanding of the different religious traditions through the contemplation of images, listening of music and analysis of writings of religions.
3) Having an idea of the influence of religions in the present global world.

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- Analysis and discussion of images, music and writings from the different religions.
- Individual analysis of readings on religions and their influence in society and culture.
- Explanation of the different religious traditions and their influence in societies today. trhough guest speakers who are believers of every religion.

Mircea Eliade - History of Religious Ideas

Trevor Ling - A History of Religion East and West

Karen Armstrong - The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

Confucius' Analects

Daodejing

Bhagavad Gita

Dhammapada

The Bible

The Four Gospels

The Quran

Group	Teacher	Department
Year 1	Josep F. Mària Serrano	Ciencias Sociales