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Courses 2022
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...
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...
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...
Introduction to Sahidic Coptic
The course Introduction to Sahidic Coptic aims to make available to beginners the essential elements of morphology and grammar, in order to be able to read ancient texts in the mai...
Reading Coptic Texts
This course offers an introduction to Coptic literature through direct readings of original material written in the Sahidic dialect of Coptic (and some closely related dialects). E...
Reading Coptic Texts
online courseThis course offers an introduction to Coptic literature through direct readings of original material written in the Sahidic dialect of Coptic (and some closely related dialects). E...
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...
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: 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...
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...
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 2021
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...
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...
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...
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
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
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
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...
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...