PhD Religions and Theology

University of Manchester

Our full-time and part-time Religions and Theology PhD programme involves substantial original research in Religions and Theology, leading to the production of a thesis (of up to 80,000 words) that constitutes a significant contribution to knowledge. 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. Find out more about our staff's research interests on the People page. One of our particular strengths is the ability of our research students to draw on the expertise of specialists in a wide range of disciplines. This 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.