Course Catalogue - Religious Studies

Click on a course code to view course details

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 (39 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		African Voices in the Study of Religions	Not delivered this year	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	SV1	Christianity in Asia: Past Patterns and Present Processes 3/4	Semester 2	20
REST10005		Diversity and Dissent in Indian Religious Traditions 3/4	Not delivered this year	20
REST10042		History and Sociology of Spiritualism	Not delivered this year	20
REST10007		Indigenous Religions: Sub-Saharan Africa 3/4	Not delivered this year	20
REST10008		Indigenous Religions: Traditions of Asia and the Pacific 3/4	Not delivered this year	20
REST10044		Islam Past and Present: Issues of Gender and Ethics	Not delivered this year	20
REST10032		Islam and the challenge of modernity: critical issues in sharia law	Not delivered this year	20
REST10012		Islam in Africa	Not delivered this year	20
REST10034		Jewish Christian Relations in Modern Times	Not delivered this year	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		New Age Religion 3/4	Not delivered this year	20
REST10009		New Indigenous Religious Movements 3/4	Not delivered this year	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		Shamanism 3/4	Not delivered this year	20
REST10002		Sociology of Religion 3/4	Not delivered this year	20
REST10043		Studies in the Qur'an	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
REST10041		Theories of Religion	Not delivered this year	20
REST10033		Visual Representations of the Holocaust and Religion	Not delivered this year	20
BIST10018		Egyptian Religion	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
THET10025		Religion and Philosophy: From Modernity to Postmodernity 3/4	Not delivered this year	20

SCQF Level 11 (17 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
REST11015		Contemporary Theories of Religion	Not delivered this year	20
REST11014	SS1	Dissertation (MSc in Religious Studies)		60
REST11006		Diversity and Identity in South Asian Religious Tradition	Not delivered this year	20
REST11003		From Primitive to Indigenous: The Academic Study of Indigenous Religions	Not delivered this year	20
REST11010		New Age Spirituality in Contemporary Culture	Not delivered this year	20
REST11007		New Dimensions in Jewish Thought	Not delivered this year	20
REST11009		New Religious Movements in Global Perspective	Not delivered this year	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
REST11016		Reflections on Gender and Ethics in Classical and Contemporary Islam	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 1	20
REST11012	SS1	Theory and Method in the Study of Religion	Semester 1	20
THET11030		Dealing with Death	Not delivered this year	20
THET11031		Religion and Philosophy	Not delivered this year	20