Doctor's degree Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions - Church Divinity School of the Pacific

Doctor's degree Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions from Church Divinity School of the Pacific is a Campus Ph.D Religious Studies degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. Degree Offered: Ph.D. This Area embraces both cross-cultural and historical themes, building upon scholarly methodologies that advance critical understandings of interreligious, multicultural, and contextual religious experience. Traditions available for study include: Buddhism, Chinese and Japanese religions , Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, diasporic African religions, and other religious traditions for which the GTU has appropriate faculty. Faculty specialties include: feminism, ethnic studies , mysticism and spirituality, interreligious learning, interfaith encounters and dialogue, ritual studies, queer theory, translation theory, postcolonial theory, HIV/AIDS, bodies, gender theory, videotics, folklore, and interdisciplinary studies of religious phenomena (myth, symbol, ritual). Most students in Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions are preparing for academic careers of research and teaching. A few graduates are preparing to participate in interreligious dialogue or education, or to work on interreligious issues in a church or other agency in a specific cultural context. Objectives: 1. Students will learn to recognize the contours of scholarship in the field of religious studies and find their own place within it. 2. Students will demonstrate both a broad grounding and a developed specialization in a particular religious tradition or culture and its history. 3. Students will learn to employ a religious studies methodology suited to their particular research specialization. 4. Students will work through the issues of constructing a syllabus for an introductory course and will formulate a pedagogical philosophy and approach. 5. Students will design and execute an original research project that makes a significant contribution to their field of specialization. Admissions Requirements The Area requires a clear and focused statement of academic purpose, specifying a field for which the GTU has appropriate faculty resources and the student has appropriate academic background and basic language preparation. Diagnostic Instrument At the outset of doctoral work, the student will submit a written Draft Academic Plan, which specifies prior background, career goals, and specific interests. This plan will be used as an advising tool, and will be critically analyzed and developed during the required Area seminar. Language Requirements The Area requires two foreign languages, at least one a modern research language (e.g. French, German, Japanese). The second language might be a classical language, a field language, or a second research language. The languages are presented to the Area as a written language proposal, framed by student and advisor, and approved by the entire Area, and then certified following the GTU's procedures. At least one modern foreign language must be certified before the student moves on to comprehensive exams; classical or field languages may be certified later, prior to proposing the dissertation, if the advisor agrees a specific language is not necessary for the comprehensives. View more details on Church Divinity School of the Pacific . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Religious Studies courses.