Course Overview
The MA Ancient Religions offers students whose interests centre on this field the opportunity to take a specialist higher degree tailored to investigating the Celtic, Christian, Egyptian, Jewish, Greek, Minoan/Mycenaean and Roman religions, The programme enables students to gain a clearer understanding of the interrelations of religion and society in a cross-cultural perspective and so better enables them to understand multi-religious worlds. Moreover, students will gain a wider understanding of the cultural economic and social forces underpinning the ancient world and these ancient ideas and practices in particular.
Modules
- Pagans, Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity
- Ancient Egyptian Religious Beliefs
- Cosmology, Magic and Divination
- Celtic Otherworlds: From the Druids to the Monastic Voyage Tale
- Spaces, Places and Objects in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
- New Testament Apocrypha
Course Tutor(s)
- Dr Kyle Erickson
- Dr Ralph H
