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Religious Studies summer courses in Europe
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Courses 2022
Old Catholic Theology: The Early Church as Charism 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...
The Early Church as Ideal: Old Catholic Theology Beyond the Basics
top courseThis course offers the possibility to deepen your knowledge of Old Catholic theology by thematic and in-depth case-driven classes, linked to a key starting point of Old Catholic th...
Feminism, Politics and Religion in the Arab World
top courseFeminism in the Arab world is boosting. Arab feminists and female activists have been at the forefront of the Arab Spring revolutions and have been exposed to systematic, political...
Buddhist Mindfulness and Care
top courseThe increasing interest in Buddhist spiritual caregiving and mindfulness is partly due to a disproportionate increase in mental distress and wellbeing and the promise and potential...
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...
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Courses 2021
Economy, Ethics and Theology
online courseThis course aims to investigate the ethical and theological origins and critique of capitalism, engaging critically with classical political economy, key moral, theological and eco...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Minor Prophets, Major Theologies
online courseThe challenges of reading the twelve Minor Prophets are many. Their language is often obscure, they seem to focus on empires that fell long ago, and their lengthy condemnations of...
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...
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...
Courses 2020
Cancelled: Climate Crisis: Fear, Care, Hope
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. The curriculum focuses on climate change as a challenge not only to the physical world but, increasing...
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...
The Johannine Riddles and a Fourth Quest for Jesus
online courseThe Fourth Gospel has played an important role in the course of Christian theology and remains one of the most cherished writings of the New Testament. It is also one of the most c...
Early Christian Anthropology and Transhumanism
online courseWe live in an era in which technology increasingly replicates the activity of human persons. An insatiable appetite exists for deploying and expanding that technology into ever-new...
World Christianities, Global Migration and Intercultural Missiology
online courseMigration has brought peoples of different faiths to the west, including Christians from southern continents with vibrant Christian populations. Their arrival raises some critical...
Courses 2019
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2018
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...