Description
Applications are now closed for September 2024. To join the waitlist for the next intake, please email marketing@carlowcollege.ie
Course Overview
Unlock a profound understanding of the world’s major religions and their impact on peace and conflict with the Certificate in World Religions, Peace, and Conflict. This part-time course is designed to enhance your interpretative skills and deepen your insight into Christian theology within today’s diverse and pluralistic society.
Explore the core beliefs, worldviews, rituals, and scriptures of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. Gain valuable conceptual and practical skills in interfaith dialogue, essential for fostering peaceful coexistence, mutual enrichment, and shared understanding among different religious traditions.
Our course examines the politics and interpretation of religious traditions, showing their connections to conflicts and peace. You’ll learn to rethink ideas about secularity and religion to promote justice, peace, and the well-being of the world. Engage with religious conflicts, like those in Gaza, and use your faith to help build peace.
Join us and become a catalyst for positive change in our interconnected world.
Credits: 10 ECTS
Validated by South East Technological University
Course Practicalities
Course will be delivered on Tuesday evenings from 6.30pm – 9.30pm online for 12 weeks. Scheduled day may be subject to change.
Next course will run from September 2025.
Course Content
Topics covered in the course include:
- Christian approaches to other religions
- Exploration of major religious traditions
- Major scriptures of world religions
- Historical interactions of Christianity and other religious traditions and the ways in which misunderstandings can be overcome.
- Various interfaith initiatives of the churches and other religious traditions
- Exploration of interfaith dialogue.
- Religion’s role in violence and peace
- Fundamentalist forms of religions and their relationship with the political field.
- How the intersection between faith and reason has promoted non-violence and just-peace in the world
Assessment
Learners will be assessed via an in-class presentation and a 2,500-3,000 word essay.
Entry Requirements
Applicants must be resident in Ireland and at least 18 years old at course commencement.
Contact Details for Further Information
Email: esmith@carlowcollege.ie
Please note our refund policy as follows
Carlow College will not issue any refunds for Certificate Programmes owing to the short duration of these programme, as per the Fees & Refund Policy
However, 100% refund will be issued if course is cancelled due to insufficient numbers.
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