Course MTC203 · Year II · Autumn 2025-2026

Interculturality and ethnicity in visual arts - icon and architecture in the Carpathian area

Compulsory course in Comparative Theology, taught by Petr Balcarek.

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Overview

Lecturer
Petr Balcarek
Seminar tutor
Petr Balcarek
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Theology - Masters
Field of study
Comparative Theology
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, debate, presentation.

Aims

- To use specific research concepts and methods cultural anthropology as they are applied in in the field of church art and in the field of theology.

- Formation of skills needed to apologize for values culturally and religiously to which I subscribe, objectively and based on historical and scientific evidence.

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Course contents

1. Introduction
2 Terminology and methods of Anthropology growing
3 Historiography
2 Terminology and methods of Anthropology Cultural.
3 Historiography
4 The phenomenon of diffusion in the Carpathian area, in church art: icons, iconography
5 The phenomenon of acculturation in the Carpathian area, in church art: icons, iconography
6 The phenomenon of resistance in the Carpathian area, in church art: icons, iconography
7 The role of religious, theological aspects in art (icons on wood, glass, etc.)
8 The role of cultural and political aspects in art (icons on wood, glass, etc.)
9 The phenomenon of diffusion of architectural types spread through missionary activity of the pilgrim monks who lived in the monasteries from rocks (cave churches).
10 The phenomenon of acculturation of types church architecture spread in the area Carpathian.
11 The phenomenon of diffusion in the field wooden church architecture.
12 The phenomenon of acculturation in the field wooden church architecture.
13 The phenomenon of resistance in the field wooden church architecture
14 Recapitulation and summary
 
 

Learning outcomes

Preparing the student to observe, analyze and comment intercultural, interethnic, interfaith and influences interreligious in the art and architecture of the Carpathians, in the way objective, through the use of scientific means and methods, moving away from subjective comments.

Assessment

Written paper – 70%; essay 20%, continuous assessment – 10%.

Recommended reading

The Medieval Manichee. A Study of the Christian Dualist Heresy
Runciman, S
Cambridge, -, 1982 · -
The Orthodox Churches and The Secular State
Runciman, S
Oxford, Auckland, -, 1981 · -
A Christian and Roman Concept That Fulfilled Its Mission“ The Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages
Srbik H. von
Herzstein R.E, London, 1966 · -