Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

All religions are communication and as such they involve the choice of languages and narrative codes precise. Through these codes they tell their listeners (the faithful) their interpretation of the world and life, they awaken in them the desire of belonging and sharing, up to direct their choices in terms of both individual and collective, and relational (social and political).

From India to Europe to Africa and the Middle East, up to U.S. of America, religions fail in this way to "do community" expressing identitarian sentiments of individuals and entire communities.

The Laboratory therefore provides the student to question some of the codes that have characterized and still characterize the communication of the great religious monotheism that has historically most influenced the Western world (i.e. Christianity and Catholicism), by analyzing its relations with both individual, society and politics in the internet age.

The Laboratory is 6 cfu or 3 + 3 cfu and proceed through an integrated system of lessons and exercises. These latter assigned to students.

The lessons will explain why the Christian and Catholic communication has accrued over time through continuous exchanges between innovation and loyalty to tradition.

The exercises allow to verify the relationship between innovation and tradition in contemporary religious communication on the web.

The final verification will aim to assess the student's ability to consciously apply the theoretical knowledge acquired to casework analyzed, and will take place in the classroom, in public, at the end of the Laboratory. It will provide preparation, drafting and discussion of a short text on the analysis carried out by each on his "case study".

The evaluation will be expressed with the following assessments: 'approved' or 'not approved'.

The final verification will aim to assess the student's ability to consciously apply the theoretical knowledge acquired to casework analyzed, and will take place in the classroom, in public, at the end of the Laboratory. It will provide preparation, drafting and discussion of a short text on the analysis carried out by each on his "case study".

The evaluation will be expressed with the following assessments: 'approved' or 'not approved'.

The languages of Christian religious communication. 

After a brief introduction on tradition and characters of premodern and modern Christian communication, the Laboratory will focus on contemporary forms of religious communication: on radio, on television, but especially today on the web and the internet that Christian churches consider an instrument of communication but also a new continent to evangelize, and who accompanies the processes of globalization, including religious, more than any other medium.

By learning about some of the main tools of analysis of a digital site, the Laboratory will then give students the opportunity to investigate the relationships between churches and the web through a "case study" of their choice. The analysis, led and supervised by the teacher, will be conducted by students working in small groups and will allow to understand the forms of presence in the network of churches and Christian and Catholic institutions in Italy and in the world.