Iğdır University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
170201005114	NEW MOVEMENTS IN RELIGION	Elective	3	5	2

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

The student knows new religious movements. He discerns the basic peculiarities, the processes of emergence and development of new religious movements. He analyzes their beliefs and social structures. He studies basic sources that affect their beliefs and social structures. He compares these movements with similar movements that appear in other environments.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Mehmet MASATOĞLU

Learning Outcomes

1	Knows the basic characteristics of the new religious movements.
2	New religious movements interpret the facts
3	New religious movements in which the conflict occurring in the structure of society, to adopt and analyze relationships change.
4	New religious movements by making a comparison of global and local scale syntheses of the information

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

1- The concept of “New Religious Movement” and Movements that are Included by the Concept. 2- Diversity in Contemporary New Religious Movements 3- Basic Characteristics of New Religious Movements 4- UFO Sects 5- God’s Community 6- Charismatic Movement 7- Satanism 8- Mid-exam 9- Mormons 10- New Paganism 11- Hare Krishna Movement 12- Opus Dei 13- Quakers 14- Jehovah’s Witnesses 15- General Evaluation 16- Final Exam

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	The concept of the new movements and formation processes	None	None
2	Basing features of the new movements	-	-
3	New religious movements, religion, sect, cult, and the difference of ideologies
4	New religious movements reject the world of sociological analysis
5	Sociological analysis of the movements that accepts the world that is
6	Entered into a compromise with the world sociological analysis of new religious movements
7	Some of the new religious movements that emerged in the West: Jehovah's Witnesses
8	Exam
9	Latter-Day Saints
10	Moon’s
11	Saintology church
12	New religious movements and local religious movements in Turkey, comparison of the effects of
13	Satanism
14	Emergence of new religious movements in the Islamic world: Bahailik, Qadiyani etc

Recommended or Required Reading

1 M. Ali Kirman, Yeni Dini Hareketler Sosyolojisi, Birleşik Dağıtım Yayınları, Ankara 2010.2 Ali Rafet Özkan, Kıyamet Tarikatleri/ Yeni Dini Hareketler, IQ Kültür Sanat Yayınları, İstanbul 2006.3 Max Weber, Sosyoloji Yazıları, Çeviren: Taha Parla, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul 2006.4 Kollektif, Yaşayan Dünya Dinleri, DİB: Yayınları, Ankara 2007.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	2	2
Final Examination	1	2	2
Attending Lectures	14	1	14
Self Study	1	20	20
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	10	10
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	10	10
Reading	14	1	14
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			72

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7
LO1
LO2
LO3
LO4

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High