BA Religion, Culture and Society
Entry requirements
A-Level: ABB IB: 32/655 BTEC: DDM
About this course
BA in Religion, Culture and Society, a theology and religion degree examining how belief systems shape communities and historical traditions. Core topics include Statistics, Fieldwork, Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students join the Theology Society for organised trips, social events and debates. The first year builds foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as Religion in the Modern World, What is Religion?, Religion and Material Culture, and Introducing Social-Scientific Approaches to Religion, alongside optional choices including Religious Communities of the Middle East: Culture, Endangerment and Survival, Introducing Biblical Hebrew, and Religion, Philosophy and Ethics. Subsequent study offers further optional modules covering texts, histories and traditions such as Intermediate Biblical Hebrew, Reading New Testament Letters, Building God's House: The Origins of Church Architecture, and The Invention of God.
Modules
- Religion in the Modern World
- What is Religion?
- Religion and Material Culture
- Introducing Social-Scientific Approaches to Religion
- Religious Communities of the Middle East: Culture, Endangerment and Survival
- Introducing Biblical Hebrew
- The Bible: Past and Present
- Reform, Retreat and Reinvention: A History of Christianity
- God and the World: Constructive Christian Theology
- Religion, Philosophy and Ethics
- Intermediate Biblical Hebrew
- Reading New Testament Letters
- Building God's House: The Origins of Church Architecture
- The Invention of God
- Conflicts and Encounters between Religions: War, Peace, Politics and the Quest for Dialogue
- History of Encounters between Philosophy and Theology
- Poets as Theologians
- Jesus: Histories and Receptions
- Early Christians and the Jewish Law: Puzzling over Paul's Roman and Galatian Letters with Ancient and Modern Readers