Religions and Theology

Entry requirements

We require successful completion of a master's course with an overall classification of Merit or higher, or its overseas equivalent, with an element of research training. A research proposal must be included with the formal application materials.

Months of entry

January, September

Course content

Our full-time and part-time Religions and Theology PhD programme involves substantial original research in Religions and Theology, leading to the production of a thesis (of up to 80,000 words) that constitutes a significant contribution to knowledge.

Areas available for research include:

• Biblical studies, especially the Bible in context (Ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, Graeco-Roman), linguistic approaches, Bible and gender;

• Early Christianity, especially Nag Hammadi and magical texts;

• Papyri and other manuscripts in the John Rylands Library;

• Rabbinic and medieval Judaism;

• Jewish thought;

• Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations;

• Islamic philosophy and medicine;

• Christian doctrine;

• Philosophical theology;

• Applied theology;

• Ecotheology;

• Theology and technology;

• Contemporary Christianity;

• Religious archives in the John Rylands Library;

• Religion and philosophy;

• Existentialism;

• Philosophy of law;

• Ethics;

• Religion and science;

• Religion and politics;

• Religion and gender.