Overview
Religions and Theology at The University of Manchester offers the possibility of developing interdisciplinary projects with high level expertise in both disciplines. For instance, recent PhD students have had supervision jointly between lecturers in Biblical studies and Roman social history, theology and music, and South Asian Studies and sociology.
Within Religions and Theology, our doctoral students also participate in a thriving disciplinary research culture. There are regular research seminars in Religions and Theology, Biblical Studies, and Jewish Studies.
Research students are also welcome at a wide range of seminars in other areas, for instance, in linguistics or in gender, sexuality and culture.
Career opportunities
Many of our Religions and Theology PhD graduates have gone on to leading academic positions in countries such as the UK, USA, South Korea, Australia, Burundi and South Africa.
Through this PhD, you will develop research skills valuable for careers other than academic teaching. Many professions today require investigative skills, while some in the media spend time researching angles of events that relate to religions.
Others in the health service investigate the experiences of various cultural groups in accessing services, and many in museums, libraries and other archives require the textual and historical research skills that our courses teach.
Programme Structure
Areas available for research include:
- Biblical studies, especially the Bible in context (Ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, Graeco-Roman), linguistic approaches, Bible and gender
- early Christianity, especially Nag Hammadi and magical texts
- papyri and other manuscripts in the John Rylands Library
- Rabbinic and medieval Judaism
- Jewish thought
- Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations
- Islamic philosophy and medicine
- Christian doctrine
- philosophical theology
- applied theology
- ecotheology
- theology and technology
- contemporary Christianity
- religious archives in the John Rylands Library
- religion and philosophy
- existentialism
- philosophy of law
- ethics
- religion and science
- religion and politics
- religion and gender
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
- Part-time
- 72 months
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Bachelor's (Honours) degree at 2:1 or above (or overseas equivalent); and
- Master's degree in a relevant subject – with an overall average of 65% or above, a minimum mark of 65% in your dissertation and no mark below 55% (or overseas equivalent)
- Any strong, relevant work experience will be considered on a case by case basis.
Tuition Fee
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21500 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 21500 GBP per year during 36 months. -
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4786 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4786 GBP per year during 36 months.
Living costs for Manchester
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