RL/SO 330 CHURCH AND STATE IN SPAIN FROM 1492 TO THE PRESENT IES Abroad Barcelona DESCRIPTION: 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. CREDITS: 3 credits CONTACT HOURS: 45 hours LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: English PREREQUISITES: None METHOD OF PRESENTATION: Lectures Class discussions Course related trips Class presentations REQUIRED WORK AND FORM OF ASSESSMENT: Pop quizzes and class participation 20% Midterm Exam 25% Final Exam 25% Annotated Map and Short Essay 10% Final Essay 20% Students participation is essential and will be assessed each session. Students are expected to take an active role in the class, participating in class discussions and fulfilling the required work for each session (readings and other materials such as films as stated) before class. Between three and six pop quizzes will also be given, with or without advance notice. Students are required to complete a project involving two essays and two field interviews. The first short essay is to analyze their annotated map and description of religious centers in Barcelona; students will hand in transcripts of their two interviews, which are required to write the final essay; the final essay will relate what students discover in their interviews to the material covered in class. All assignments are to be submitted in hard copies. LEARNING OUTCOMES: By the end of the course students will be able to: 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.
ATTENDANCE POLICY: Attendance is mandatory for all IES Abroad classes, including course related trips. 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 3 percentage points will be deducted from the final grade for every additional absence. Seven absences in any course will result in a failing grade. CONTENT: Session Content Required Reading Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Introduction to the course: expectations and rubrics, format of exams. Terms: Atheist, Laic, Agnostic, Believer, Nominal believer 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. 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. "Spain: International Religious Freedom Report 2011" document released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US Department of State, 2013 http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/religiousfreedom /index.htm#wrapper Anderson, John Ward. Wednesday, March 1, 2006. A Church State Schism in Spain: Catholic Doctrine in Washington Post Foreign Service, A14. Barbara Weissberger. 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. Barbara Weissberger. 2003. "The Neo Gothic Theory and the Queen s Body" in Isabel Rules: Constructing Queenship, Wielding Power. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 96 133. Session 5 Session 6 Session 7 The Umayyads of Córdoba and the politics of cohabitation. Muslims, Mozarabs, and Jews under Spanish Christians' rule, repopulation of empty towns and villages. Abu Muhammad 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Sa'id ibn Hazm: the philosopher, theologian, historian, narrator and poet. Common sense gets to the truth. Jewish cultural, political, religious and intellectual life in Muslim Spain. Watt, Montgomery and Pierre Cachia. 2007. A History of Islamic Spain. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, pp.24 31. Muhammad Saghir Hassan Al Ma'Sumi (trans). Al Akhlâq wa l Siyar: (Morals and Behavior), pp.1 18. Course related trip: Visit to the Museu d'història de la Ciutat: guided visit of El Call come to class on time, as we will leave immediately! Annotated map and short essay due at the beginning of class
Session 8 Fleeing or Converting, staying true to the Jewish faith or converting to Catholicism: Yonah Helkias. 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. Kamen, Henry. 1999. The Great Dispersion in The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision. Yale: Yale U Press, pp.8 28. Session 10 Session 11 Session 12 Francisca de los Apóstoles prays for the church and state. Philip II. The House of the Hapsburg in the 16th century. Toward a total war. The Decline of Castile. Review Session 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. 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. Session 13 Midterm Exam Session 14 The Second Republic Discussion of Film (you must watch on your own before the session): Butterfly (La lengua de las mariposas) (José Luis Cuerda, 1999) Cowans, Jon. 2003. "Spanish Bishops, Against the 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. 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. 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 Session 18 Session 19 Session 20 Session 21 Session 22 Session 23 Session 24 La hispanidad: A Nostalgic and Mythologized view of the Spanish Middle Ages. The Roman Catholic heritage. The transition: 1978 Constitution. The Aspiration of Freedom of Conscience. 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? The Atheist Campaign Bus and the rights of Atheists in Spain. The emergence of secularity and the process of secularization in the modern age. Could the secular emerge within the religious? The emergence of secularity and the process of secularization in the modern age. Could the secular emerge within the religious? Peer Review Session (workshop on Final Essay) Review Session (Final exam preparation) Diffie, Bailey W. 1943. "The Ideology of Hispanidad" in The Hispanic American Historical Review 23(3):457 482. Interview Transcripts Due Souto Paz, José Antonio. 2001. "Perspectives on Religious Freedom in Spain" in Brigham Young Univeristy Law Review, pp. 669 710. Recommended readings: 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. 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://governacio.gencat.cat/ca/pgov_a mbits_d_actuacio/pgov_afersreligiosos/pgov_serveis/pgov_mapa_religions/ Guest Speaker: Joan Carles Marset, Vice President of the Atheist Association of Catalonia Taylor, Charles. 1992. "The politics of Recognition," in Multiculturalism and The Politics of Recognition. CA, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 25 75. (continued) Taylor, Charles. 2007. "Religion Today," in A Secular Age. CA, MA: Harvard University Press, pp.505 35. Taylor, Charles. 2007. "Religion Today," in A Secular Age. CA, MA: Harvard University Press, pp.505 35. (continued) Final Exam Final Essay Due TBD
REQUIRED READINGS: 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 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 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 and The Military, in Spain at War: The Spanish Civil War in Context 1931 1939. NY: Longman, pp.37 49; 64 78. 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%20de%20culte.pdf Site of the Federation of Evangelical Religious Entities (FEREDE) http://www.ferede.org/ RECOMMENDED READINGS: 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. 8 th 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. RECOMMENDED FILMS: 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)