Religious Studies

Religious Studies aim to provide the tools needed to interpret and understand religions and philosophies of life, in the sense knowledge about human ways to express their view of life’s final aim and meaning – through history and at the present. Religious Studies include several subject areas; Comparative Religion, Religion Behavioral Science, Bible Science, History of Christianity, and Science of Faith and of Philosophies of life. From B-level the opportunity to probe deeper into history of religion (meaning mainly the study of the growth and present significance of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and Islam, and New Religious Movements), ethics (mainly in a western context), or in certain cases in some other subject in Religious Studies. Teaching consists of lectures, group exercises and seminars on questions prepared in writing by the students. One important aim of the education is to train a critical, analyzing manner in approaching the material. The subject Religious Studies is also responsible for certain philosophy courses.