Religious Studies

Overview

About this Program

The School also seeks to train young scholars in the art of lecturing/teaching; to this end it has created opportunities for Ph.D. students to teach courses and permits M.A. and Ph.D. students to work as teaching assistants. The individual programs are described below.

Adequate library and study facilities are available in the William and Henry Birks Building and elsewhere in the University for the courses listed and for research.

The School of Religious Studies at McGill University offers programs leading to the degrees of:

• Master of Arts (M.A.) (Thesis and Non-Thesis)

• Master of Arts (M.A.) (Thesis) with specialization in Bioethics

• Master of Arts (M.A.) (Thesis) with option in Gender and Women’s Studies

• Master of Sacred Theology (S.T.M.)

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) with option in Gender and Women's Studies

The areas of graduate specializations of our School are:

• Buddhism;

• Christian History and Theology;

• Early Judaism;

• Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies;

• Hinduism;

• Interfaith Studies;

• New Testament Studies;

• Philosophy of Religion;

• Religion and Communication;

• Religious Ethics;

• Religion and Globalization;

• Religion and Modernity;

• Religion and the Public Sphere;

• Sociology of Islam.