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Religious music - the art of transforming conflict into communion

Course Code: MED102 • Study year: I • Academic Year: 2022-2023
Domain: Theology - Masters • Field of study: Intercultural and interreligious mediation
Type of course: Compulsory
Language of instruction: Romanian
Erasmus Language of instruction: English
Name of lecturer: Domin Adam
Seminar tutor: Domin Adam
Form of education Full-time
Form of instruction: Class / Seminary
Number of teaching hours per semester: 28
Number of teaching hours per week: 3
Semester: Summer
Form of receiving a credit for a course: Grade
Number of ECTS credits allocated 8

Course aims:

- identification of possible models of interreligious and inter-Christian dialogue
- openness to dialogue and overcoming retrograde meanings of understanding and applying historical theology; acquiring knowledge that helps to create integrative visions in the new European configuration
-knowing of the principles of mediation of interreligious and intercultural conflicts

Course Entry Requirements:

N/A

Course contents:

1.Introduction into music-therapy
2. Music between the anthropic universe and the modernist non-biotic universe
3. Resonance
4. The musical sound
5. Sonicity-musical instruments
6. Musicians and musicians-beneficial music
Symphonic, classical music Church music
7. Emotional feelings, moods
8. Purification of the body
9. Brain stimulation
10. The songs of nature. The human voice.Vocal therapy
11. Music in the zodiac
12. Vocal sound therapy
13. Therapy with musical instruments
14. Prayer with an instrument. Music and math. Rhythm therapy

Teaching methods:

Lecture, debate

Learning outcomes:

The course of this discipline is based on melotherapy; the contribution of music to human harmonization and rebalancing; music therapies and more; the influence of music on the human psyche; sound therapy.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Oral exam 70% and implication in course 30%

Recommended reading:

BACH, Brandenburg concerts, ---, ---, ---, ---.
Iamandescu Ioan, Elements of general and applied psychosomatics, Ed. Infomedica, Bucureşti, 1999, ---.
Prelipceanu Dan, Mental health treatise, -, Bucureşti, 2000, ---.