Course aims:

the development of the students' historical background
familiarizing students with non religious issues
Respect for idea of tolerance

Course Entry Requirements:

nothing special

Course contents:

1.  Non-Religious Identity

2.  Anti-Clerical Identity

3. Separation of Church-State

4. Freethought – Movement

5. Freethought in Romania. 

6. Civil Marriage, Secular Oath, Secularization of Education

7. Secular Funerals, Relations with Cremation

8.  Romanian Socialists Until 1914

9. Atheism – Movement

10.  Atheism in Romania: The Interwar Period

11. Atheism in Romania: the Communist Period

12. Humanism – Movement

13. Church–State Relations 

14. Recap

Teaching methods:

Lecture, debate, presentation

Learning outcomes:

The discipline aims to famlizarize studnets with the idea of non religious identity, itis history, evolution, criticism and developments.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Oral exam 70%, essay 30%

Recommended reading:

Lalouette, Jacqueline, La libre pensee en France, 1848-1940, Albin Marcel, Paris, 1996, 1-300.
Rotar Marius, Eternitate prin Cenusa, Institutul European, Iasi, 2011, 1-646.
Gillet, Olivier, Religie și naționalism. Ideologia BOR sub regimul comunist, Compania, Bucuresti, 2011, 1-300.
Remond, Rene, Religie și societate în Europa. Secularizarea în secolele XIX și XX, Polirom, Iasi, 2011, 1-250.