RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS AND SOCIAL ORDER
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: CRISTIANA MARIA PETTINATOExpected Learning Outcomes
The purpose of the course is to offer the coordinates for interpreting the religious phenomenon in the Italian legal system, with constant reference to international and supranational legal sources. The student will be able to analyze with awareness and critical sense the complexity of social relations influenced by confessional principles, and to identify the most effective forms of protection of freedom of conscience.
Course Structure
Lectures held by the professor in charge of the course and by invited experts.
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
1. The historical evolution of relations between States and religious denominations - 2. The current systems of relations between European States and religious denominations - 3. The system of relations between Italy and religious denominations - 4. The sources of law in matters of State-religious denomination relations - 5. Freedom of religion and conscience: fundamental principles - 6. Religious freedom and religiously oriented clothing - 7. Religious freedom and bioethics - 8. Religious freedom and family relationships.
Textbook Information
Attending students can study on the handouts provided by the teacher during the lessons.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The history of relations between the State and religious denominations | |
| 2 | State and religious denominations in Europe | |
| 3 | Religions in Italy and their juridical discipline | |
| 4 | The sources of law on the coexistence of religions | |
| 5 | The supreme principle of secularism | |
| 6 | The fundamental principles of freedom of conscience | |
| 7 | Religious exemptions and bioethics | |
| 8 | Religious clothing. The Islamic veil. The kirpan | |
| 9 | Religious freedom and the family |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
The exam will take place with an oral test which will tend to ascertain the knowledge of the topics, the presentation ability, the level of critical analysis around the issues dealt with, the quality of legal language.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Christian dualism.
Caesaropapism.
Theocracy.
Separatism.
Religious tolerance.
Jurisdictionalism.
The article 7 of the Italian Constitution.
The article 8 of the Italian Constitution.
The Agreements with non-Catholic denominations.
The Lateran Pacts and the Revision Agreements.
The supreme principle of secularism.
European legal sources in the religious field.
Freedom of conscience.
Proselytism.
The constitutional limits to religious freedom.
Religious exemptions and bioethics.
Religiously oriented clothing.
The Islamic veil.
The case of the kirpan.
Religious clothing and marketing.
Religious freedom and biolaw.
The Canon marriage and its civil relevance.
Religious freedom of spouses and children.
The transcript of marriage.
The nullity of a canonical marriage and the validation of the relative sentence.
The marriage of non-Catholic denominations.