University of Johannesburg
Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Religion
The Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Religion in Theology and Religious Studies is offered by University of Johannesburg.
Program Length: 1 YEAR.
Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Religion offered by the University of Johannesburg
The Honours programme may be taken with a specific focus in the following areas of specialisation or in combination:
Critical Issues in the Study of Religion: The Divine in Religions; Religions and Science; Method and Theory in the Study of Religion; Liberation Theologies in Religions.
Christianity: The Context of Early Christianity; The Bible as Literature; The Christian Tradition; Christianity and Contemporary Issues.
Islam and Arabic: Studies in Hadith; Islam and Gender; Islamic Spiritual Traditions; Selected Arabic Texts (Tafsir); The Qur’an and its Major Themes; The Shari’ah and Constitutional Democracies; Critical Issues in Contemporary Islam
African Indigenous Religions: African Spirituality; Indigenous Religions and Ecology; The Influence of Modernization on African Indigenous Religion; African Indigenous Religion and other Indigenous Religions of the World. Hebrew – Aramaic and Judaica Related Themes: Biblical Texts; Mishnah and Talmud; Targums and Interpretative Texts; Judaism and Contemporary Issues.
