Religious Studies

Course summary

Philosophy and Religious Studies are among the oldest subjects to be studied at university level. In the late medieval period, it was believed that you couldn’t study the sciences or arts until you had spent time studying philosophy and theology because they provided you with the language and tools to unpick everything else. Philosophy and Religious Studies present the exciting challenge of deciphering argument, untangling complex claims about the nature of the world, humans and society. As a student, you will be analysing ancient texts and ideas and working out their relevance for today, as well as forming our own opinions on the nature of God, knowledge, the soul, right and wrong and much more. One of the best things about the subject is that it has such natural links with so many others: philosophers of mind share interests with psychologists; logicians with mathematicians; students of time and reality with physicists. There are political philosophers, philosophers of language, of music, history and art. Whatever your interests - if you seek to look behind the curtain, to try and understand how this world pieces together, Philosophy and Religious Studies is the subject for you.