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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
SV1
Revelation, Reason & Experience as Sources of Religious Knowledge in Islam 3/4
Semester 2
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
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