Subspecialties
People specializing in this area
University Teaching Officers
- Classical and modern Vedanta
- Political Hinduism
- Indo-Islamic Theology
- Colonialism and Islam in German East Africa
- Religion in international development
- Christian-Muslim relations in Africa (esp. Ethiopia)
- Theory & Method in the study of religions
- The Romantic appropriation of the Sanskrit tradition
- Comparative philosophy of religion
The Anthropology of Religion
Contemporary Protestantism
Apocalypticism and Millenarianism
Religion and Hate
- Modern Jewish religious thought and philosophy (esp. Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas)
- Theories and practices of interreligious dialogue and communication
- The (contested) relationship between scripture and philosophy, both in the Jewish intellectual tradition and more generally
- Aspects of ethics, hermeneutics and theopolitics in classical rabbinic literature
- Sufism and the development of the Ottoman learned institution
- Computerised hadith databases
- Muslim-Christian relations
Academic staff
- Classical and modern Vedanta
- Political Hinduism
- Indo-Islamic Theology
- Colonialism and Islam in German East Africa
- Religion in international development
- Christian-Muslim relations in Africa (esp. Ethiopia)
- Theory & Method in the study of religions
- The Romantic appropriation of the Sanskrit tradition
- Comparative philosophy of religion
Psychology of religion
Contemporary/20th century religious history
Apocalypticism and millenarianism
The Anthropology of Religion
Contemporary Protestantism
Apocalypticism and Millenarianism
Religion and Hate
- Modern Jewish religious thought and philosophy (esp. Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas)
- Theories and practices of interreligious dialogue and communication
- The (contested) relationship between scripture and philosophy, both in the Jewish intellectual tradition and more generally
- Aspects of ethics, hermeneutics and theopolitics in classical rabbinic literature
- Sufism and the development of the Ottoman learned institution
- Computerised hadith databases
- Muslim-Christian relations
Research staff
Suhrawardī's Illuminationist Philosophy
Directors of Studies
- Colonialism and Islam in German East Africa
- Religion in international development
- Christian-Muslim relations in Africa (esp. Ethiopia)
- Theory & Method in the study of religions
Psychology of religion
Contemporary/20th century religious history
Apocalypticism and millenarianism
- Sufism and the development of the Ottoman learned institution
- Computerised hadith databases
- Muslim-Christian relations
Other teaching assistance
- Science and the Hindu traditions
Retired Faculty
- Classical Vedanta
- Truth and inter-religious dialogue
- 19th century Bengal
- Hindu images
- Religious language and Naming God
- Science and religion, especially in relation to Creation
- Form and content in theological writing
- The symbolics of gender
- Christian origins and the metaphysics of scripture
Graduate students
Religious change and contemporary heritage production in southwest Nigeria
MPhil student in Religion and Conflict
Joseph Soloveitchik and Inter-faith Dialogue
Sociality and the Mystical Theology of 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (1641-1731)
A Conceptual Analysis of Possible Reconciliations and Integrations of Evolutionary and Islamic Thought
Functional Hermeneutics: Articulating the Moral Significance of Qur'anic Narratives
MPhil student in World Religions
MPhil student in Religion and Conflict
The Ontology of the Beatific Vision in the Classical Ash'arī School
MPhil student in World Religions