Religious Studies
The Religious Studies papers are taught by the Faculty of Divinity. This provides you with the opportunity to acquire a broad spectrum of academic knowledge in Religious Studies, particularly Christianity and other principal religions represented in Great Britain: the course also provides the opportunity to study ethics, the psychology and the sociology of religion and church history.
Preliminary Examination to Part I
In the first year of the course, you will take one paper on Christianity, either From Bethlehem to Rome: Luke - Acts and the origins of Christianity or Christianity and the transformation of culture and then a further paper, either World Religions from a Contemporary Perspective or The Philosophy of Religion and Ethics.
Part I
In the second year of the course (Part I) you can choose two or three papers from a wide range of topics which includes Old and New Testament studies; Christian Theology; Early, Medieval, Reformation or Modern Church History; Foundations for Ethics; Sociology and the Mission of the Church, and Psychology.
Part II
In your final year you can choose up to two papers in theology. You can continue to study aspects of Christianity (e.g. Christian Spirituality in Historical Context, Biblical Interpretation and Authority), other religions (Islam, Judaism) or you can continue your study of Ethics or History of religion.
Divinity Website
More information on specific papers can be found here.
Colleges that offer Education with Religious Studies
Christ's, Churchill, Clare, Downing, Emmanuel, Fitzwilliam, Gonville and Caius, Homerton, Hughes Hall, Jesus, Lucy Cavendish, Magdalene, Queens, Robinson, St Edmund's, St John's, Selwyn, and Wolfson.