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February 14, 2023
Apply now for our new one-year MA program
The Department of Religious Studies is now accepting applications for our brand new one-year MA program for the Fall 2023 intake. Students can now apply to the brand new one-year Masters program (MRP) in Religious Studies. Offering the option of a one-year MA will allow students to pursue studies within Religious Studies beyond the BA, […]
April 8, 2024
‘The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood’: eclipse and apocalypse in religious texts
Eclipses have had a special significance in the human conscience throughout recorded history. Postdoctoral fellow Abby Kulisz talks about eclipses in Christian and Islamic texts. By a cosmological chance, the April 8 eclipse coincided with the final week of class for “Apocalypse Then and Now”, a Religious Studies course taught by postdoctoral fellow Abby Kulisz. […]
December 22, 2023
Exploring the Literary Contexts of Patristic Biblical Exegesis Hardcover
Edited by former Religious Studies graduate students Miriam De Cock and Elizabeth Klein, The essays of Patristic Exegesis in Context examine the biblical exegesis of early Christians beyond the formal genre of biblical commentary. The past couple of decades have seen a broadening of perspective on the study of patristic exegesis; the phenomenon is increasingly […]
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