Research Projects

The Department is currently involved in the following research projects:

The nature of Religion

• Religion in Africa
• Expressions of Christianity in Africa
• Annual Bengu Memorial Lecture presented by the Evangelical community in South Africa under the leadership of dr Dan Lephoko
• Annual series of public lectures with Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Society (AENES)

Religion and violence:

• Annual departmental Conference
• Radicalization of Religion (project in collaboration with Leuven University)
• Annual Religion and Violence lecture in collaboration with the Argentine Embassy

Religion and visual culture (in collaboration with UP School of Arts)

• Material religion

Religion and Education (in collaboration with UP Faculty of Education)

• How to teach Religion Studies
• Religion in the school system

Sociology of religion (in collaboration with the UP Department of Sociology)

• The effect of the 4th Industrial Revolution on religion

Inter-religious dialogue

• Encounterology
• In collaboration with the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life (OCRPL)
• In collaboration with an international team of scholars working on Christian-Muslim Relations (CMR 1900)

Religion and Health

• Part of undergraduate module

Scriptural Reasoning

• Religion in society