Postgraduate Programmes in Religion

Intercultural Theology & Interreligious Studies integrates a variety of disciplines in order to explore some of the complex relationships within and between religious communities and their traditions, as well as to attend closely to the connections and tensions experienced as the religions encounter alternative social, political and cultural resources of meaning and identity. The course focuses on the practical and theoretical possibilities of dialogue, and is concerned with sustaining communities in which the challenging praxis of peace and reconciliation with others is given concrete embodiment.

Religious issues are an important part of public debate in contemporary pluralist societies. Many crucial social and political matters are affected by religious concerns. Key policy debates require expertise and literacy in religious and theological concepts, their traditions and practices.

As a Ph.D. student in the School, we provide research supervision across disciplinary fields which include the ethics and theology of conflict and peace; reconciliation; human rights and ethics in international affairs; interreligious dialogue and intercultural theology; ecumenical theology; gender issues; development and globalisation; the interplay of politics and religion etc. The School offers a structured PhD. Students work with their supervisor(s) over a four year period and are required to take a minimum of 10ECTS in taught modules to develop their research skills over the course of their studies.