Links:
[1] http://www.iesabroad.org/study-abroad/programs/barcelona-liberal-arts-business
[2] http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127338.htm
[3] http://www20.gencat.cat/docs/Departament_de_la_Presidencia/GAR/Activitats/Mapa%20llocs%20de%20culte.pdf
[4] http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/hazm/akhlaq/index.html
[5] http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2008/108473.htm
[6] http://www20.gencat.cat/docs/Departament_de_la_Presidencia/DGAR/Activitats/Mapa%20llocs%20de20culte.pdf
[7] http://www.ferede.org/
Church And State In Spain From 1492 To The Present
This course seeks to examine the relationship between church and state in Spain as a strategy to explore current political discussions, such as, debates about citizenship and immigration. Students will be invited to question not only Spain's definitions of "religious diversity," "secularism," and "freedom of conscience," but also Catalonia's positions as well. From Isabella and Ferdinand's conception of the Catholic Empire to the November, 2007, law recognizing Buddhism as a legal religious tradition in Spain, this course hopes to provide the historical background to current debates about Spain's notion of "secularism." Topics will include religious identity, migrant religion, secularism, religious pluralism, and multiculturalism. Some lived-religion method and theory will be presented as well.
Attendance is mandatory for all IES classes, including field studies. Any exams, tests, presentations, or other work missed due to student absences can only be rescheduled in cases of documented medical or family emergencies. If a student misses more than three classes in any course half a letter grade will be deducted from the final grade for every additional absence. Seven absences in any course will result in a failing grade.
By the end of the course students will:
• understand current political discussions about secularism from a historical perspective;
• situate the Spanish debate about church and state within European and global religious pluralism discourses as well as discussions about citizenship and immigration;
• recognize religious difference and be understanding and tolerant towards this;
• express themselves with criteria about topics tackled in the course verbally and in written form.
Lectures, class discussions, field studies, class presentations.
LANGUAGE OF PRESENTATION: English
Class participation (25%); essay (25%); mid-term exam (25%); final exam (25%)
Students’ participation in class is essential and it will be assessed. Students are expected to have an active role in the class, participating in class discussions and fulfilling the required work for each session (readings and other possible materials such as films and documentaries as stated). Students are also required to give an oral presentation on one of the topics of the course, under the professor’s guide and instructions. One essay (7 pages long; Time New Roman 12; 1.5 lines) will be written by each student on a topic given by the instructor related to one of the city´s church, temple, synagogue (independent Field Studies) carried out through the course. The essay will be submitted in hard copy and also sent by e.mail to the professor.
Session 1: Introduction to the course:
expectations, oral participation rubric, essay rubric, format of exams. What is?: Atheist, Laic, Agnostic, Believer, Nominal believer
Session 2: Spanish religious freedom: the Episcopal Conference of Spain (CEE), the Federation of Evangelical Religious Entities (FEREDE), Union of Islamic Communities (UCIDE), and the Federation of Jewish Communities. Policy framework. Restrictions on religious freedom. Discrimination.
Required Reading:
"Spain: International Religious Freedom Report 2008" document released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US Department of State http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127338.htm [2], accessed: May 16, 2011
Anderson, John Ward. Wednesday, March 1, 2006. “A Church-State Schism in Spain: Socialist Leader Backs Policies at Odds with Catholic Doctrine” in
Washington Post Foreign Service, A14.
Session 3: History of Spain from 711 to 1492 considering the contributions and interactions
of the three religious traditions to Spanish culture. Isabella I of Castille and the foundations of a Catholic Empire.
Required Reading:
Weissberger, Barbara. 2003. "Anxious Masculinity," in
Isabel Rules: Constructing Queenship, Wielding
Power. Minnesota: University of Minnesota
Press, pp. 1-28.
Session 4: Isabella I of Castile's piety.
Required Reading:
Weissberger, Barbara. 2003. "The Neo-Gothic Theory and the Queen's Body," in Isabel Rules: Constructing Queenship, Wielding Power (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press), pp.
96-134.
Session 5: The Umayyads of Córdoba and the politics of cohabitation. Muslims, Mozarabs,
and Jews under Spanish Christians' rule, repopulation of empty towns and villages.
Required Reading:
Watt, Montgomery and Pierre Cachia. 2007. A History of Islamic Spain. New Jersey: Transaction
Publishers, pp.24-31.
Session 6: Abu Muhammad 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn
Sa'id ibn Hazm: the philosopher, theologian, historian, narrator and poet. Common sense gets to the truth.
Required Reading:
Muhammad Saghir Hassan Al-Ma'Sumi (trans). Al- Akhlâq wa´l-Siyar: (Morals and Behavior), pp.1-18.
Session 7: Jewish cultural, political, religious and intellectual life in Muslim Spain.
Field study: Visit to Museu d'història de la
Ciutat (guided visit of El Call)
Session 8: Fleeing or Converting, staying true to the Jewish faith or converting to Catholicism: Yonah Helkias.
Appendix Final Paper Part 1 Due:
Description of Holy Site
Required Reading:
Constable, Olivia Remie, ed. 1997. "Charter of Explusion of the Jews (1492)" in Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim and Jewish
Sources. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, pp.352-56.
Gordon, Noah. 2002. The Last Jew. St. Martin's Griffin, pp.48-118.
Session 9: The inquisition. Structure, Purpose,
& Methods.
Required Reading
Kamen, Henry. 1999. “The Great Dispersion” in The
Inquisition: A Historical Revision. Yale: Yale U Press, pp.8-28.
Session 10: Francisca de los Apóstoles prays for the church and state.
Required Reading:
Ahlgren, Gillian. 2005. “Transcript of the Inquisitional
Trial of Francisca de los Apóstoles” in Francisca de los Apóstoles 1539-after 1578. Chicago: U of
Chicago Press, pp.61-90.
Session 11: Philip II. The House of the
Hapsburg in the sixteenth century. Toward a total war. The Decline of Castile.
Required Reading:
Kamen, Henry. 1988. “Toleration and Dissent in
Sixteenth-Century: The Alternative Tradition” in
Sixteenth Century Journal, vol.19, no.1 (Spring): 3-23.
Kamen, Henry.1964. "The Decline of Castile: the last
Crisis" in The Economic History Review, New
Series, vol.17, no.1, pp.63-76.
Session 12: Review Session
Session 13: Midterm Exam
Session 14: II Republic Film Viewing (previous to the session): José Luis Cuerda's La lengua de las mariposas (1999)
Required Reading:
Existence of the Secular Schools (1909)", "Fernando de los Ríos, the Republican Education Program (1937)" in Modern Spain: A Documentary History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 106-9,152-54.
Session 15: The Spanish Civil War (July 1936- April 1939). Military and political dimensions. Church and State.
Required Reading:
Cowans, Jon. 2003. "Manuel Azaña, 'Spain Has Ceased to Be Catholic" (1931)" in Modern Spain: A Documentary History. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, pp. 136-40.
Shubert, Adrian and George Richard Essewein. 1995. “The Church”, in Spain at War: The Spanish Civil War in Context 1931-1939. NY: Longman, pp.37-49.
Session 16: The Spanish Rhetoric: One
Homeland Under God.
Required Reading:
Cowans, Jon. 2003. "Julián Juderías, The Black
Legend", "Francisco Franco, Laureate Cross
Acceptance Speech (1940)" in Modern Spain: A Documentary History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 111-14, 211-14.
Session 17: La hispanidad: A Nostalgic and Mithologized look of the Spanish Middle Ages. The Roman Catholic heritage.
Required Reading:
Diffie, Bailey W. 1943. "The Ideology of Hispanidad" in
The Hispanic American Historical Review
23(3):457-482.
Session 18: The transition:1978 Constitution. The Aspiration of Freedom of Conscience. Appendix Final Paper Part 2 Due: A Sequence of Two Interviews with Two Different People or A Sequence of Two Interviews with the Same Person
Required Reading:
Souto Paz, José Antonio. 2001. "Perspectives on Religious Freedom in Spain" in Brigham Young Univeristy Law Review, pp. 669-710.
Recommended Reading:
Cowans, Jon. 2003. "The Constitution of 1812", "The
1931 Constitution", "The 1978 Constitution" in
Modern Spain: A Documentary History.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 26-30, 147-50, 262-71.
Session 19: Religious Pluralism theories. What does it mean to belong to a recognized religious tradition? What are the implications? What is the place of the Roman Catholic Church in secular Spain?
Required Reading:
Taylor, Charles. 1992. "The politics of Recognition," in
Multiculturalism and The Politics of Recognition. CA, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 25-75.
Map of minority religious traditions in Catalonia:
http://www20.gencat.cat/docs/Departament_de_la_Presidencia/GAR/Activitats/Mapa%20llocs%20de%20culte.pdf [3]
Session 20: The emergence of secularity and the process of secularization in the modern
age. Could the secular emerge within the
religious?
Required Reading:
Taylor, Charles. 2007. "Religion Today," in A Secular
Age. CA, MA: Harvard University Press, pp.505-35.
Session 21: The emergence of secularity and the process of secularization in the modern age. Could the secular emerge within the
religious?
Required Reading:
Taylor, Charles. 2007. "Religion Today," in A Secular
Age. CA, MA: Harvard University Press, pp.505-35.
Session 22: The Atheist Campaign Bus and the rights of Atheists in Spain.
Guest Speaker: Joan Carles Marset, Vice- President of the Atheist Association of Catalonia
Session 23: Peer Review Session
Session 24: Review Session
Final Review
Anderson, John Ward. Wednesday, March 1, 2006. “A Church-State Schism in Spain: Socialist Leader
Backs Policies at Odds with Catholic Doctrine” in Washington Post Foreign Service, A14.
Ahlgren, Gillian. 2005. “Transcript of the Inquisitional Trial of Francisca de los Apóstoles” in Francisca de los Apóstoles 1539-after 1578. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, pp.61-90.
Al-Ma'sumi, Muhammad Saghir Hassan (trans). 1990. Al-Akhlâq wa´l-Siyar: (In the Pursuit of Virtue), pp.1-18. http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/hazm/akhlaq/index.html [4]
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US Department of State. 2008. "Spain: International
Religious Freedom Report 2007," http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2008/108473.htm [5]
Constable, Olivia Remie, ed. 1997."Charter of Explusion of the Jews (1492)" in Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim and Jewish Sources. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
pp.352-356.
Cowans, Jon. 2003. "Spanish Bishops, Against the Existence of the Secular Schools (1909)," "Julián
Juderías, The Black Legend (1914)," "Manuel Azaña, Spain Has Ceased to Be Catholic (1931)," "Fernando de los Ríos, The Republican Education Program (1937)," "Francisco Franco, Laureate
Cross Acceptance Speech (1940)" in Modern Spain: A Documentary History. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 106-9, 111-14, 136-40, 152-54 and 211-14.
Diffie, Bailey W. 1943. "The Ideology of Hispanidad" in The Hispanic American Historical Review
23(3):457-482.
Gordon, Noah. 2002. The Last Jew. NY: St. Martin's Griffin Thomas Dunne Books, pp.48-118.
Kamen, Henry. 1999. "The Coming of the Inquisition" in The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision.
Yale: Yale U Press, pp. 8-28.
Kamen, Henry. 1988. “Toleration and Dissent in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Alternative Tradition” in
Sixteenth Century Journal, vol.19, no.1 (Spring): 3-23.
Kamen, Henry.1964. "The Decline of Castile: the last Crisis" in The Economic History Review, New
Series, vol.17, no.1, pp.63-76.
Shubert, Adrian and George Richard Essenwein. 1995. “The Church” in Spain at War: The Spanish Civil
War in Context 1931-1939. NY: Longman, pp.37-49.
Souto Paz, José Antonio. 2001. "Perspectives on Religious Freedom in Spain" in Brigham Young
Univeristy Law Review, pp. 669-710.
Taylor, Charles. 1992. "The politics of Recognition," in Multiculturalism and The Politics of Recognition.
CA, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 25-75.
Taylor, Charles. 2007. "Religion Today," in A Secular Age. CA, MA: Harvard University Press, pp.505-35. Watt, Montgomery and Pierre Cachia. 2007. A History of Islamic Spain. NJ: Transaction Publishers,
pp.24-31.
Weissberger, Barbara. 2003. "Anxious Masculinity," in Isabel Rules: Constructing Queenship, Wielding
Power. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 1-28.
Weissberger, Barbara. 2003. "The Neo-Gothic Theory and the Queen's Body," in Isabel Rules: Constructing Queenship, Wielding Power (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press), pp. 96-134.
Map of minority religious traditions in Catalonia:
http://www20.gencat.cat/docs/Departament_de_la_Presidencia/DGAR/Activitats/Mapa%20llocs%20de20culte.pdf [6]
Site of the Federation of Evangelical Religious Entities (FEREDE) http://www.ferede.org/ [7]
Berger, Peter. 1999. The De-Secularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Carter, Stephen. 1994. The Culture of Disbelief. NY: Knopft Publishing Company.
Cowans, Jon. 2003. "The Constitution of 1812", "The 1931 Constitution", "The 1978 Constitution" in
Modern Spain: A Documentary History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Espósito, John L. 2003. Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Freeman, Charles. 2005. Closing off the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason. NY:
Knopft Publishing Company.
Giles, Mary E., ed. 1999. Women in the Inquisition: Spain and the New World. Johns Hopkins
University Press.
Hollister, Lun Ann. 2006. The Spanish Inquisition, 1478-1614: An Anthology of Sources. Cambridge, MA: Hackett Publishing Company.
Jonestone, Ronald. 2006. Religion in Society: A Sociology of Religion. 8th ed. NJ: Prentice Hall.
Madeley, John T.S. & Zsolt Enyedi ed. 2003. Church and State in Contemporary Europe: A Chimera of
Neutrality. London, UK: Taylor & Francis.
Maimónides (1135-1204). 2003. The Scroll and the Cross. 1,000 Years of Jewish-Hispanic Literature.
New York: Routledge.
Mann, Vivian B. 1992. Convivencia. Jews, Muslims and Christians in Medieval Spain. J. Braziller.
Richardson, James ed. 2004. Regulating Religions: Case studies from around the Globe. NY:
Springer-Verlag.
Santob de Carrión (1290-1369). 1986. Proverbios morales (¿1355-1360?). Theodor A. Perry, ed.
Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies.
Scott, Samuel Parsons trans. 2001. Las Siete Partidas (de Alfonso el Sabio) (Siglo XIII). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
Segal, David Simha trans. 2001. Harizi, Judah ben Solomon. The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales
from Medieval Spain. UK: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization.
Weigel, George. 2005. The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America and Politics without God. NY: Basic Books.
The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. New York: Kino on Video, 1983.
Guernica: Tres horas que conmovieron al mundo. PICS / The University of Iowa, 1987. Saura, Carlos. Blood Wedding. Los Angeles: Media Home Entertainment, Inc., 1986.
The Spanish Civil War. Princeton: Films for the Humanities, Granada Television International, Ltd./Granada Video, 1993.
The Spanish Civil War. MPI Home Video, Granada Television International, 1987.l.
Christians, Jews and Moslems in Medieval Spain (33 min)
The Disputation: A Theological Debate Between Christians and Jews (65 min)