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Theology and Religious Studies MA, MPhil, PhD
This is a research programme within the Theology and Religious Studies subject area.
Key facts
- Subject area: Theology and Religious Studies
- Location: Canterbury
- School: School of European Culture and Languages
- Duration: MA one year full-time or two years part-time, MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD registration three to four years full-time or five to six years part-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September.
- Fees: More info
- Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 in a relevant subject. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
Outline
Staff can supervise theses in the main areas of interest listed below.
Programme structure
For further information see the School site.
Funding
Every school at Kent offers one or two University postgraduate research scholarships, each available for three years, providing fees at the home/EU rate and a stipend up to £13,590 per annum (2011/12 rate).
Many schools offer scholarships in the form of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) whereby postgraduate research students receive financial support in return for teaching. The value of awards may vary, but often cover tuition fees at the home/EU rate and a substantial maintenance grant.
All postgraduate research students are eligible to apply for GTAs. See Graduate Teaching Assistantships.
SECL offers student bursaries to cover the fees of postgraduate students, mainly on research programmes. In these cases, students are expected to contribute to their subject area by doing up to six hours of teaching per week.
SECL bursaries are advertised in January for a September start.
The School also provides funds for research students to attend conferences, as well as for inter-library loans and minor expenses related to research.
Staff have received research finance from sources including the British Academy, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Leverhulme Trust, European Union funds and University sources, including SECL, Simon Cohen Trust and Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.
For further details of postgraduate funding, see Postgraduate funding.
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Resources and facilities
The School has extensive literary holdings and many other facilities to support active research in the literary and cultural domain, and the Templeman Library has excellent holdings in all our areas of research interest (see the Templeman Library website for details). The School also provides excellent facilities in IT.
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Research areas
Applied theology
Current postgraduate research includes a detailed study of local churches in order to promote church growth, or specific ethical areas, such as health care and Christian ethics. We particularly encourage postgraduates to combine empirical study and theological analysis.
Mysticism and religious experience
This group particularly focuses on the nature of religious experience and its importance in understanding religion; the phenomenology and psychology of religion; anthropological and ethnographic investigations of experience in religion, mystical traditions and religious experience more widely defined in Hindu religious thought
Religion and film
This group focuses on the interface between religion and popular culture, and examines whether or not film is a significant medium for expressing religious values in society today.
Religion, the sacred and contemporary society
Current postgraduate research includes projects on the cultural construction of conservative Evangelical subjectivities, the role of the sacred in identifications with the Israel-Palestine conflict and the natural childbirth movement, the interface between PR and journalism in the construction of UK news stories relating to Islam, and visitor engagement with religious objects in the British Museum. Most members of staff work with their own research group in the section, but many also participate in the SECL Cultural Memory group.
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|Staff research
Professor Jeremy Carrette: Professor of Religion and Culture; Head of Religious Studies
Michel Foucault; William James; critical psychology and religion; globalisation, social theory and religion; politics of spirituality; capitalism and religion; theology and economics; Christian ethics; gender, sexuality and theology.
Dr Christopher Deacy: Senior Lecturer in Applied Theology
Theology, religious studies and film, in particular how film appreciation enriches theological enquiry.
Professor Robin Gill: Professor of Applied Theology
How Christian ethics contribute to healthcare ethics today in a Western, pluralistic society; Synoptic Gospel healing stories relating to health care ethics
Professor Gordon Lynch: Michael Ramsey Chair of Modern Theology
Forms of the sacred within contemporary culture; religion, media and culture; lived religion; religion and the secular; conservative and progressive religious movements in the West; religion, arts and public cultural spaces.
Dr Todd Mei: Lecturer in Philosophy and Religion
Martin Heidegger; Paul Ricoeur; religion and economics; philosophy of economics; theology of work; philosophy of work.
Dr Jessica Frazier: Lecturer in Religious Studies
Theories and methods in the study of religion; Hindu religious traditions; phenomenology, religious experience and theories of the self; religion and culture; Islamic liberalism and fundamentalism; Gadamer and continental philosophy
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Contact details
Admissions enquiriesT: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk
Professor Jeremy Carrette
Religious Studies,
School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK
T: +44 (0)1227 823145
E: j.r.carrette@kent.ac.uk
Centre for English and World Languages
T: +44 (0)1227 824069
E: premasters@kent.ac.uk
W: www.kent.ac.uk/cewl/courses/GraduateDiplomas
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