Research

The Department of Religions and Theology is a centre of research in Biblical Studies, Christian theology, and ethics.The School of Religions, Theology and Ecumenics offers a Long Room Hub lecture series on Religion(s), Ethics and Cultural Engagement, with international scholars. Regular Postgraduate Research Seminars at which research students meet to discuss each others' work; and, of course, the research projects of individual staff members of the Department.

Postgraduate Research Seminars

The School of Religions and Theology supports two Postgraduate Research Seminars, one in Biblical Studies and the other in Theology & Ethics. Research students are expected to participate in one of them.

Held during term-time, the postgraduate seminars deal with themes relevant to the postgraduate students' research. The purpose of the seminars are several: to provide research students with a basic intellectual community; to offer them opportunities to learn how to present their work in public and to have it discussed; and to help expand their academic reach. The form that these seminars take varies. Sometimes, they comprise a discussion of a chosen text; sometimes, the presentation of a student's work; and sometimes, attending a lecture by a visiting scholar.

Recent Books

Cathriona Russell & Linda Hogan & Maureen Junker-Kenny (eds.),

Ethics for Graduate Researchers: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach

(Oxford: Elsevier, 2012)

Maureen Junker-Kenny,

Habermas and Theology HBook Cove

(London/New York: T & T Clark/Continuum, 2011)
(Series: Philosophy and Theology), 213pp.
The book traces the three phases of Habermas' treatment of religion in his
theory of communicative reason from the 1960s up to the present, as well as this responses to philosophical and theological engagements with his work.

Margaret Daly-Denton,

Psalm-shaped Prayerfulness.

A Guide to the Christian Reception of the Psalms

(Dublin: The Columba Press, 2010), 226pp.