HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: Social Work

Semester: 2nd Semester

Teaching Languages: English

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Prof Ram Cnaan

Coordinator Email: cnaan@upenn.edu

Coordinator Office Hours:

Teaching Staff:
Prof Ram Knaan

Course/Module description:
Worldwide social workers and development professionals are challenged to find new resources to meet the needs of residents and to help solve personal, social, and environmental problems. While many social work/welfare as well as development concepts and ideological tenets are borrowed from world religion; social work/welfare professionals and development officers make little attempt to capitalize the power and resources of organized religion and harness them to serve people in need. This course will introduce students to understand religion from a sociological perspective and especially its organized forms and then will discuss on the role of organized religion in social work/welfare practice and on international social development.

The course is not intended to cover religious theologies but rather to focus on using religious teaching and religious resources to enhance quality of life of individuals, groups, and communities. However, it will focus on the fact that many people use their religious faith as a springboard for resiliency and successful coping. The course will not focus on the negative side of religion such as contribution to oppression and discrimination. While these issues are most important, our focus will be on how to use faith and religious organizations in the helping relationships.

Many social professionals are working under the auspices of, or in collaboration, with religious-based social service agencies. Yet, we have very little knowledge and understanding of the unique nature of these agencies. Historically, the dynamic tension between social work/welfare and organized religion has prevented them from successfully collaborating.

This course recognizes the need to train social workers as well as development professionals to be enlightened users and collaborators with religious-based social agencies and faith organizations. Students will gain conceptual sociological and social work knowledge about religion and the role of religion in modern society with a special focus on therapeutic relationships, social services provision, and social devolvement.

Course/Module aims:
Form a sociological understanding of what religion, faith, spirituality, and beliefs mean and how these concepts differ and what the differences imply.

2. Understand faith and religion as sources of strength and resiliency as well as gain appreciation for religion as “spiritual capital.”

3. Understand the complexity and special nature of managing and practicing social work, welfare and/or development in religious-based agencies.

4. Review the historical, current, and future role played by religious-based social service agencies in meeting human needs in the American society, abroad, and internationally.

5. Understand the dual nature of religious-based social service agencies as it pertains to “agency authority” versus “higher authority.” We will focus on how the tension between the religious mission and the organizational requirements is negotiated and resolved daily—helping vs. saving souls.

6. Learn how to identify and negotiate religious and professional values as an integral part of religious social care and understanding “professional use of self” within, as well as outside religious-based social and human services agencies.

7. Assess how agencies vary in relation to their espoused commitment to religious values, affiliation to a religious body, their size, sources of income, dependence on state revenues, and other factors which will impact their service delivery.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
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Attendance requirements(%):
100%

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: The class will function in a seminar format. It will meet for four full days over one week in February. We will conduct many class-wide discussions as well as small group exercises. Students are not expected to be religious or to believe in any specific deity. We will respect every opinion if it is presented with respect to others. There will be no proselytization allowed in the class.

We will start by focusing on key issues of the sociology of religion and the importance of religion in the life of individuals as well as the functioning of groups and societies. We will discuss how many of the helping professions started from religious organizations and how many of our core values are religiously-based.

We will then discuss the past, current, and future involvement of the religious community in the clinical practice, in the social services arena, with regards to international social development. Students’ issues and experiences will be integrated with course content and the American knowledge throughout the course. Issues of personal, religious, and professional value conflicts will be addressed, as well. We will then review practice and managerial needs of people employed in religious-based social service agencies.

The principal teaching methodology will involve a seminar in which students are expected to review the literature, participate in discussions, and make class presentations. We will process issues of personal beliefs and their implications for practicing in religious-based local and international social organizations.

The course may touch upon sensitive issues such as personal faith, different religions, and different forms of religious practice. Students should not discuss or react negatively to any expression of religion. The professor and students will demonstrate respect to every opinion or personal statement presented in the class.

Course/Module Content:
Session 1. Overview

A. Introduction of professor to class and class participants to the professor.

B. Review of course purpose and requirements.

C. Religion, faith, and spirituality: definitions and distinctions. (Class discussion)

D. Student perceptions of religious-based social care and social services agencies.



Session 2. What is religion


A. Definitions of religion.

B. Religion as an individual phenomenon vs. as a group phenomenon.

C. Anthropological explanations

D. Psychological explanations.


Session 3. Becoming religious—How religion is practiced in groups


A. The five functions of group dynamics and their application to religious life..

B. The bureaucratization of religion.

C. Religious socialization.

D. Religiosity vs. religion.

E. Fiving & volunteering; religious vs. secular people.



Session 4. Organized religion


A. Sect and cults vs. religion.

B. Church and denominations: Differences and impact on people’s life..

C. Conflicts within and between religions.

D. The positive and negative power embedded in world religions: Source for worry and/or optimism or “who govern the energy of organized religion?”.



Session 5. Religion and Society I


A. Religion and politics.

B. Kings and priests//Royalty and prophets.

C. Civil religion.

D. Religious fundamentalism.


Session 6. Religion and Society II


A. Religion and the economy.

B. Religion and class order; religion and social stratification.

C. Religious persecution & Freedom of religion

D. Women in religion.


Session 7. Religion in America


A. The religion pre independence.

B. Separation of church & state.

C. Religious diversity in America and its impact.

D. Independent churches, new forms of religious practice, and the status of denominations in the 21st century.



Session 8. Strength Derived from Religion


A. Religion as a protective source in health care.

B. Faith & religion in mental health.

C. Faith & religion as contributing to longevity.

D. Faith & religion in recovery and avoidance of risk behaviors.



Session 9. Faith-based Social Services


A. The three monotheistic religions and social welfare/development.

B. Buddhism and Hinduism and social welfare/development.

C. The church assuming responsibility for the welfare of local resident—state of private affairs?

D. Religion’s contribution to individuals’ quality of life – The strength perspective.


Session 10. The power of religion in international development


A. Social capital and spiritual capital.

B. The rift between social work/development and the religious community--evidence and reasons.

C. Using religion to build a community of care.

D. How much is religion and how much is care?


Session 11. Religion and economic development


A. Poverty alleviation and religion.

B. How do religious economic development organizations function?

C. Using religion to motivate for social change.

D. Inter and intra-religious economic development (mutual aid or others development).

E. Faith-based environmental organizations.



Session 12 Faith-based social and community projects

A. Working with congregations to change the community.

B. Community change and religious efforts.

C. Para-denominational groups.

D. Course review and summary

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