Religion Degrees Online

Programme Structure
1. Common Course

2. Compulsory Courses:
Study Group Kairos (5 ec)
Choice of two: Ethics and Religion, Philosophy of Religion or Philosophy of Science for Religious Studies

3. Additional Courses. For example courses focused on a religious tradition, courses offered by the Faculty of Philosophy, individual tutorials or the course Religion and Spirituality.

Entry Requirements
In addition to the general rules set out for admission to the master’s programme students are expected to possess knowledge of the history of philosophy as well as of philosophy of religion and moral philosophy.

Religions have an intellectual dimension, as beliefs about the world and moral convictions. These can be studied from an insider perspective (systematic theology, religious ethics) but also with somewhat more intellectual distance. Major questions that may be posed concern the internal coherence of religious beliefs and moral convictions. However, we are also interested in their interaction with knowledge and practices that are at first external to the beliefs themselves. Thus, we study various examples of the interplay of religious beliefs and practices with knowledge provided by the natural sciences, the impact of technology on the life world we live in, and the moral discourse and reflection in which secular and religious normative ideas interact with each other.

Alongside the engagement with beliefs and convictions there are more general questions, for instance about the nature of religious language, the methods we use to study and reflect upon religion, and the nature of ‘secular societies’. These reflections are also shaped by other disciplines in philosophy and cultural studies, such as philosophy of science and philosophical ethics.