2024

Church and Power

Name: Church and Power
Code: HIS10582M
10 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/280 hours
Scientific Area: History

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: B-learning

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

- Capacity to identify the main historiographical questions about the installation of ecclesiastics institutions;
- To endow the pupil with the essential knowledge of the process or processes of installation of the ecclesiastical institutions in this territory, through a close analysis of the different religions existing in this territory;
- To develop the capacity of thinking about the traditional models of reading and analysis;
- To develop the capacity to identify the questions unanswered in order to stimulate an autonomous and original inquiry.

Contents

- The ecclesiastical organization in the South: space and frontiers
- The religious experience in the South: the confluence of religions
- The Christian church in the south societies: ecclesiastical institutions and control of the territory. Administrative and
jurisdictional frame.
- King and church: royal power and territory. Social networks and religious protagonists.

Teaching Methods

- an original work with around 10 pages (pitch 12) 60%
- presentation of a text and discussion - 30%
- participation - 10%