Italian National PhD Program in Religious Studies – sources, norms, traditions and methods

The Italian National PhD Program in Religious Studies aims to be a place for training and boosting specialist knowledge concerning religious experience, its normative and theological expressions, and the heritage of sources and their interpretation. The aim is to create a scientific community open and attractive to the best national and international scholars and candidates that, in the context of growing religious illiteracy and religious climate change, is able to produce scientific knowledge regarding different beliefs and approaches from the past. The program operates within six curricula or disciplinary areas:

- Christianity
- Islam
- Judaism
- Buddhism and Religions of Asia
- Law and Religions
- Transdisciplinarity and Technological Frontier Research

They will each integrate exegetical, sociological, philosophical reflection and the competent implementation of historical and hermeneutic methods on written, iconographic, and oral sources, as well as theoretical issues.

For the first three years, the administrative office of Italian National PhD Program will be the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, which is also a partner of the consortium. Students will be enrolled by the administrative office of the program and they will be placed within the research groups of the partner Universities that provide the research grants according to the results of the selection process.