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Religious Studies

SCQF Level 08 (4 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
REST08006 SV1 Religion 1A: Religion in the Contemporary World: Judaism, Christianity and Islam Semester 1 20
REST08005 SV1 Religion 1B: Religion in the Contemporary World: Indigenous Religions and the Religions of Asia Semester 2 20
REST08008 SV1 Religion 2A: Making Sense of Religion: Phenomenological, Historical and Cultural Approaches to the Study of Religion Semester 1 20
REST08007 SV1 Religion 2B: Religion and Society: Social Scientific Approaches to the Study of Religions Semester 2 20

SCQF Level 10 (34 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
REST10023 'A People Apart'? Explorations in Modern Jewish Thought 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
REST10021 'The 'Jew' in the Text': Representations of the Holocaust and Jewish Identity 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
REST10013 SV1 African Voices in the Study of Religions Semester 2 20
REST10004 Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religions 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
REST10029 Chinese Religions: Confucianism, Daoism and "popular" religion 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
REST10014 Christianity in Asia: Past Patterns and Present Processes 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
REST10005 SV1 Diversity and Dissent in Indian Religious Traditions 3/4 Semester 1 20
REST10007 SV1 Indigenous Religions: Sub-Saharan Africa 3/4 Semester 1 20
REST10008 Indigenous Religions: Traditions of Asia and the Pacific 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
REST10032 SV1 Islam and the challenge of modernity: critical issues in sharia law Semester 1 20
REST10012 Islam in Africa Not delivered this year 20
REST10034 SV1 Jewish Christian Relations in Modern Times Semester 2 20
REST10015 Jewish Views of Jesus 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
REST10011 Key Figures in the Study of Religions 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
REST10031 Martyrs, virgins, and hell's angels: Islamic eschatology in context Not delivered this year 20
REST10003 Methodological Issues in the Study of Religions 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
REST10016 SV1 New Age Religion 3/4 Semester 2 20
REST10009 SV1 New Indigenous Religious Movements 3/4 Semester 2 20
REST10022 Promised Land or Land of Conflict 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
REST10040 Readings in Arabic Religious Literature: Islamic Law, Theology and Sufism Not delivered this year 20
REST10039 Readings in Arabic Religious Litrature: Qur'an and Hadith Not delivered this year 20
REST10035 Religion and Nationalism in the Contemporary World Not delivered this year 20
REST10017 Religion in Culture: Key Debates 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
REST10025 Revelation, Reason & Experience as Sources of Religious Knowledge in Islam 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
REST10010 SV1 Shamanism 3/4 Semester 1 20
REST10002 Sociology of Religion 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
REST10030 The Body in Islam 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
REST10019 The Masters of Suspicion 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
REST10033 SV1 Visual Representations of the Holocaust and Religion Semester 1 20
BIST10018 Egyptian Religion 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
THET10024 Feminist Theology 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
THET10039 Kierkegaard and Existentialism Not delivered this year 20
THET10015 Liberation Theology 3/4 Not delivered this year 20
THET10016 Metaphysics and Morality 3/4 Not delivered this year 20

SCQF Level 11 (13 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
REST11014 SS1 Dissertation (MSc in Religious Studies) Full Year 60
REST11006 SV1 Diversity and Identity in South Asian Religious Tradition Semester 1 20
REST11003 SS1 From Primitive to Indigenous: The Academic Study of Indigenous Religions Semester 1 20
REST11010 SS1 New Age Spirituality in Contemporary Culture Semester 2 20
REST11007 New Dimensions in Jewish Thought Not delivered this year 20
REST11009 SS1 New Religious Movements in Global Perspective Semester 2 20
REST11005 Perspectives on the Human Body in Islamic Traditions Not delivered this year 20
REST11004 Professionals, Revolutionaries and Holy Fools: Power and Authority in Cross-religious Perspective Not delivered this year 20
REST11002 SV1 Religion and the New African Diaspora Semester 2 20
REST11008 SS1 Selected Themes in the Study of Religion Semester 2 20
REST11011 Sharia and Modernity: Problems, Promises, and Perspectives for Reform Not delivered this year 20
REST11013 SV1 Themes and Explorations in Jewish-Christian Relations Semester 2 20
REST11012 SS1 Theory and Method in the Study of Religion Semester 1 20
Key
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Not available to visiting students - SS
Part-year visiting students only - VV
 
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