Research study areas

Engage in interdisciplinary study of the interaction between religion and literature, across a range of religious traditions, sacred texts and literary genres

Explore theoretical and practical approaches to topics such as politics, peacebuilding, ethics and materiality.

Investigate the Hebrew Bible and its context: poetry and prophecy, theology and ethics, the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Engage deeply with the Christian past - whether your interests lie in centuries long ago, or the near present.

Pursue interdisciplinary study of Islamic thought and practice, and of encounters between Christianity and Islam.

Research early Christianity: its religious and historical setting, textual and literary criticism, the history of interpretation.

Specialise in contemporary, historical or thematic research, in areas such as Asian Studies, History of Religions/New Religions, and Jewish Studies.

Bring together the two great truth-seeking disciplines and explore how they challenge and inform each other

Undertake a critical and creative engagement with Christian thought, in a context of intellectual diversity

Focus on Christianity in and from all parts of the majority world, and on African and Asian churches in the northern hemisphere.