Specialise in contemporary, historical or thematic research in areas such as Asian Studies, History of Religions/New Religions, and Jewish Studies. HTML Research profile You can specialise in a variety of areas which include contemporary and historical topics and fields such as Afrodiasporic Religiosity and Decolonial Approaches to Religion, Asian Religions, History of Religions/New Religions and Jewish Studies. You will be encouraged to frame your research using a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, from the classic to the cutting-edge. You will be able to draw on methodological expertise which includes biographical analysis, discourse analysis, ethnography, historical and textual studies, memory studies and narrative studies. You are encouraged to contact a potential supervisor to discuss your research project before making a formal application Afrodiasporic Religiosity/Decolonial approaches While we welcome proposals on a wide-range of topics within the field of Afrodiasporic religiosity and decolonial approaches to religion our own expertise lies primarily in the following key areas: Gender and Sexuality Creole spiritual practices of the Caribbean and Latin America Race, racialisation and identity Religion as a tool for/of (neo)colonial control as well as a means of self-determination and community building Histories of conquest, enslavement and colonialism shaping religion The politics and economics of religiosity Spirits, ancestors, and the dead Embodied, affective and sensorial components of religious practice History of Religions/New Religions We welcome proposals on a wide-range of topics in new and alternative forms of religion and spirituality, combining empirical enquiry with theoretical and comparative analysis. Our own expertise lies primarily in the following key areas: New and alternative religion/s combining empirical enquiry with theoretical and comparative analysis History and ethnography of the categories ‘spirituality’, ‘holistic’, ‘new age’ Atheists, humanists and the rejection of religion Discourses on ‘religion’ in civil society and transnational contexts Modern history of the study of religion/s Philosophy of the comparative study of religion/s Asian Religions While we welcome proposals on a wide-range of topics within the field of Asian Religions, our own expertise lies primarily in the following key areas: The intersections between indigenous religions, Hinduism and local Christianities in South and Southeast Asia The ethnographic study of South Asia, with particular expertise in Northeast India and the Himalayan region The intersection between religion, politics and nationalism in Asia Religious narrative in early India, Hindu epics, Buddhist and Jain narrative Buddhism in India and Buddhist literature in Sanskrit Theravada Buddhism, including Pali literature Jewish Studies The Religious Studies Subject Area welcomes proposals on a wide range of topics in Jewish Studies, and our own expertise primarily lies in the following areas: Modern Jewish cultural history with a focus on Germany, the UK and Scotland Migration, religion and culture Holocaust representation and memorialisation Jewish religious thought in response to the Holocaust Museum studies Jewish/non-Jewish relations in modern Europe Further information Core staff Dr Naomi Appleton Email: naomi.appleton@ed.ac.uk Profile page: Dr Naomi Appleton Dr Steven Sutcliffe Email: S.Sutcliffe@ed.ac.uk Profile page: Dr Steven Sutcliffe Dr Hannah Holtschneider Email: h.holtschneider@ed.ac.uk Profile page: Dr Hannah Holtschneider Dr Arkotong Longkumer Email: A.Longkumer@ed.ac.uk Profile page: Dr Arkotong Longkumer Dr Alysa Ghose Email: alysa.ghose@ed.ac.uk Profile page: Dr Alysa Ghose Postgraduate Admissions Phone: +44 (0)131 650 8952 Email: gradschool.div@ed.ac.uk Apply now Our postgraduate Degree Finder contains details of entry requirements, fees, scholarships and international student information for this programme. Apply online This article was published on 2024-03-19
