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Religious Studies summer courses in Europe
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Courses 2024
Søren Kierkegaard: The Individual Between the Religious and the Secular
Once again, the Faculty of Theology is pleased to offer a course on the thought of Søren Kierkegaard in his hometown and at his own university. In this concentrated summer course,...
Introduction to Sahidic Coptic
blended courseThe Coptic Language Summer School aims to provide students, scholars, and enthusiasts of ancient religious history with a comprehensive and well-founded understanding of the Coptic...
Being Human: Becoming a Person in the Spirit and Work of Edith Stein
The Summer Academy will cover the following topics: Being human - with body and soul. Basic questions of human life with Edith Stein What is the human good for? Suggestions for...
Religion and Climate Futures
A joint academic summer school for advocates, policymakers, practitioners and faith leaders, hosted at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Divinity and with optional residenti...
Anglicanism in European Perspective
top courseWith the Anglican Centre in Rome as principal organizer, and in partnership with the Virginia Theological Seminary (Alexandria VA, USA), the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Eu...
God on Our Side? Questioning Theological Narratives of Nationalism, Populism and Conservatism
The UCSIA Summer School is a one-week mentoring programme that encourages doctoral and postdoctoral students to explore interdisciplinary ways of analysing the relationship between...
Advanced Coptic
online courseThe Coptic Language Summer School 2024 delivers an immersive experience tailored for both beginners and advanced learners, catering to students, scholars, and enthusiasts of ancien...
Biblical Interpretation in Diverse Communities
top courseThe Summer School will be taught by experts of and invited by the Centre for Contextual Biblical Interpretation at the Protestant Theological University and the Faculty of Religion...
Old Catholic Theology in its Ecumenical Context
top courseThis course offers an introduction to Old Catholic theology in an ecumenical context. Old Catholic theology is understood as the main theological currents as they exist in the Unio...
Old Catholic Theology beyond the Basics: In Search of being Church in Communion
top course'Old Catholic Theology beyond the Basics: In Search of Being Church in Communion' focuses on a key topic in Old Catholic theology: communion. In Old Catholic theology, communion w...
Medieval “Lived Religion”
top course blended courseRecent approaches to the study of religion have used the term “lived religion” to foreground “ordinary people” over the “elite”. This approach has stressed practices, sites and mat...
The Futures of Daily Bread? Food, Inequality and Utopia
The course familiarises the students with social factors behind contemporary food inequality, including food (in)security, abundance, food waste, and paradoxes of charitable food a...
Old Catholic Theology: Communion as Calling and Challenge
top courseThis track consists of two connected courses that offer in the first week an introduction to Old Catholic theology in its ecumenical context and in the second week the possibility...
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Courses 2023
Freedom and Responsibility in the Spirit of Edith Stein
The summer academy addresses the question of freedom by focusing on both Edith Stein's own understanding of freedom but also in the academic perspectives in which Edith Stein herse...
Religious Conflicts and Coping Strategies – Rituals, Rhetorics, Regulations
Many conflicts, present and past, are perceived and problematized as religious. To date no model for the analysis of religiously connoted conflicts and associated coping strategies...
Courses 2022
Religion, Mobility & Economy
The UCSIA Summer School 2022 focuses on the topic of 'Religion, Mobility & Economy'. Mobility has long defined religious traditions and their vital presence in our contemporary wor...
Religion Among Children and Youth: Learning by Doing
Pastors and youth workers in churches, teachers in Christian education, faithful parents: all try in their own way and from their own responsibility to support children and young p...
The Contribution of Hebrews to Early Christian Theology
While relatively neglected for many years, the letter to the Hebrews has attracted considerable scholarly interest recently. The lack of clear data about the letter’s place within...
On Friendship: Summer Academy in the Spirit of Edith Stein (in German)
The summer academy addresses the question of friendship by focusing on both Edith Stein's own understanding of friendship but also in the academic perspectives in which Edith Stein...
Interfaith Relations
online courseCambridge Interfaith Programme's 2022 Summer School opens for applications on Friday 18 March. The course will run online from Monday 4 July through to Friday 15 July. Why atten...
Responding to Public Crises: Christian Thinkers on the Fall of Rome (410) and the Dutch Disaster Year (1672)
Throughout history profound civil crises have had a large impact on people’s lives, causing them to seek explanations and grasp the meaning of the events they witnessed. When confr...
Courses 2021
A Theology of Witness(ing)
To investigate critically theological aspects of witnessing against the historical background of Upper Austria’s 1930’s and 1940’s can be theologically most productive. At the same...
Bible and Video Games
online courseThe video game industry is big business. It seems to be focused on economy only. In fact, however, modern-day video games contain many religious elements. Developers use large quan...
Privacy Challenged in Past, Present and Future: a Multi-disciplinary Approach
online courseEverybody agrees that privacy is essential, but no authoritative definition exists. Notions of privacy and private concern the confrontation between the individual and his or her s...
German for Theologians
The course German for Theologians will introduce German grammar, syntax, and vocabulary at an elementary level enabling the participants to read, understand, and translate theologi...
Inter-Faith Relations
online courseThis is an in-depth academic course addressing inter-faith relations from different disciplinary perspectives. Fully taught by recognised University of Cambridge experts in religio...
Islam in Europe: Challenges of Pluralism
online courseThe IIIT European Summer School Islam in Europe: Challenges of Pluralism offers unique tools to navigate our reality and world with its rapidly growing pluralistic scene. In order...
Religion, Theology and Aesthetics
Living in aestheticized cultures requires skills of critical perception informed by relevant theories. While reality has always been more than “hard facts” – both religion(s) and a...
Courses 2020
Religion, Mobility & Politics
-- EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 APRIL 2020 The annual UCSIA (University Centre Sint-Ignatius Antwerp) summer school on Religion, Culture & Society focuses on religious change in an int...
Courses 2019
The Masoretic Text, the Septuagint and Early Jewish Biblical Exegesis
As part of a cooperation between Swiss and Russian universities, the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Bern hosts a summer school on the interplay of the Hebrew Bibl...
Plures - Master in Religious Pluralismo and Historical Knowledge
PluRes – The Master’s Degree in Religious Pluralism and Historical Knowledge offers participants a wide range of notions in the field of historical-religious sciences and provides...
Cultural Dimensions of Christian Spirituality CDCS
Post-graduate specialization course: The CDCS will help to improve the understanding of historical and modern cultural challenges for Christian spirituality with regards to single...
Courses 2018
Academic Courses in Theology
Theology attempts to answer some of the biggest religious questions that face, and have faced mankind, for millennia. Indeed, Oxford has taught Theology for almost that long; it is...
Islam in Europe: Challenges of Pluralism
IIIT European Summer School Islam in Europe: Challenges of Pluralism offers unique tools to navigate our reality and world with its rapidly growing pluralistic essence. In order to...
Courses 2017
Eurasian Religions in Contact
The Eurasian Religions in Contact Summer School provides a format for introducing and discussing cutting-edge research relating to the problems of studying global inter-religious r...
Courses 2016
Eurasian Religions in Contact 2016
ERiC Summer School provides a fruitful and well-established format for introducing and discussing cutting-edge research relating to the problems of studying inter-religious relatio...
The Apocrypha in the Age of Cathedrals
The "Protevangelium of James", the "Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew" and the "Nativity of Mary" form the so-called “Nativity of Mary” narratives. They relate the birth and early life of M...
Courses 2015
Eurasian Religions in Contact 2015
Taking a broadly global approach to religious interactions, the ERiC Summer School of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg (KHK) at CERES examines the theme "Eurasian Religions in Contact"....
Courses 2014
Special Topics: Religion and Cultural Change: Myths and Images of Post Modernity
Lithuania is a culture where ancient religion and modern ideology is being challenged by Western cultural consumer products which are part of the global cultural marketplace. North...
Faith Themes in Literature
This course is a thematic study of short fiction, drama, novel, and poetry. Using biblical texts and theological themes as foundational material, students will engage in critical a...