Course Catalogue - Religious Studies

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Religious Studies

SCQF Level 08 (6 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
REST08021	SV1	Global Indigenous Religions	Semester 2	20
REST08022	SV1	Jews and Muslims: Religions, Cultures, Histories	Semester 2	20
REST08019		Modern Hebrew 1A	Not delivered this year	20
REST08018		Religion in Modern Britain	Not delivered this year	20
REST08020	SV1	Religions of Ancient India: Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism	Semester 2	20
REST08016	SV1	Studying Religions	Semester 1	20

SCQF Level 10 (22 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
REST10054	SV1	Atheism, Humanism and Non-Religion	Semester 2	20
REST10058		Buddhist Ethics	Not delivered this year	20
REST10047	SV1	Field-Work Approaches for the Study of Religion	Semester 2	20
REST10046		Hindu Traditions: History, Power and Agency	Not delivered this year	20
REST10059		Indigenous Futures: Knowledge, Ecology and Politics	Not delivered this year	20
REST10044		Islam Past and Present: Issues of Gender and Ethics	Not delivered this year	20
REST10034		Jewish Christian Relations in Modern Times	Not delivered this year	20
REST10057	SV1	Lives of the Buddha: Jataka Stories and Early Buddhism	Semester 1	20
REST10049	SV1	Modern Religious and Ethical Debates in Contemporary Literature	Semester 1	20
REST10052		New Spiritualities: from New Age to Holistic	Not delivered this year	20
REST10022		Promised Land or Land of Conflict 3/4	Not delivered this year	20
REST10035	SV1	Religion and Nationalism in the Contemporary World	Semester 1	20
REST10056		Religions in Africa	Not delivered this year	20
REST10051		The Hindu Epics: Mahabharata and Ramayana	Not delivered this year	20
REST10041	SV1	Theories of Religion	Semester 1	20
REST10048		Theravada Buddhism	Not delivered this year	20
REST10033	SV1	Visual Representations of the Holocaust and Religion	Semester 2	20
ASST10157	SV1	Buddhism and the Statutory State in Eighth and Ninth Century East Asia	Semester 1	20
THET10050	SV1	Christian-Muslim Relations: diatribe, discourse and dialogue	Semester 2	20
THET10028		Film, Religion and Ethics 3/4	Not delivered this year	20
THET10054	SV1	Literature of the Islamic World	Semester 2	20
THET10016		Metaphysics and Morality	Not delivered this year	20

SCQF Level 11 (22 courses)

Code	Availability	Course Name	Period	Credits
REST11027		African Religious Diversity	Not delivered this year	20
REST11025	SV1	Atheism and the Rejection of Religion	Semester 2	20
REST11015		Contemporary Theories of Religion	Not delivered this year	20
REST11014	SS1	Dissertation (MSc in Religious Studies)	Full Year	60
REST11018		Hindu Traditions: Critical Investigations	Not delivered this year	20
REST11028	SV1	Issues of Religion and Ethics in Modern Literature	Semester 1	20
REST11026	SV1	Lives of the Buddha in Indian Art and Literature	Semester 1	20
REST11010		New Age Spirituality in Contemporary Culture	Not delivered this year	20
REST11023		New Spiritualities	Not delivered this year	20
REST11016	SV1	Reflections on Gender and Ethics in Classical and Contemporary Islam	Semester 2	20
REST11019	SV1	Religion and Nationalism: Theory and Performance	Semester 1	20
REST11008		Selected Themes in the Study of Religion	Not delivered this year	20
REST11017	SV1	The Holocaust in Visual Culture	Semester 2	20
REST11020	SV1	The Practice of Field-Work in the Study of Religion	Semester 2	20
REST11013		Themes and Explorations in Jewish-Christian Relations	Not delivered this year	20
REST11012	SS1	Theory and Method in the Study of Religion	Semester 1	20
REST11021		Theravada Buddhism from Benares to Bangkok	Not delivered this year	20
REST11022		Understanding the Hindu Epics: Mahabharata and Ramayana	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11073	SV1	Buddhism and the Statutory State in Eighth and Ninth Century East Asia	Semester 1	20
IMES11079		Hebrew for Arabic Speakers	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11074		Japanese Religions in the Modern Era	Not delivered this year	20
ASST11071	SS1	The Buddhist Brush: Discursive and Graphic Expressions of Japanese Buddhism	Semester 2	20