Multidisciplinarity in religious studies is an old tradition at the Catholic University of Louvain. From the outset, classical research in the Faculty of Theology has always be linked with diverse disciplines, such as philosophy, history, philology, law, then psychology and sociology. More recently, in the 1980s, at the initiative of Professors Jean Remy and Liliane Voyé, the Social Sciences and Religious Studies Group (GSSR) was also founded at the Faculty of Economics and Social and Political Sciences, which federated many disciplines and allowed to create a community of researchers in religious thematics. The same applies to the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World (founded by Prof. Felice Dassetto), which has gathered various disciplines for the study of Islam. There is also the case with the multidisciplinary approach of the Center for Religious Psychology (founded by Prof. Antoine Vergote in 1961).
The research institute Religions, Spiritualities, Cultures, Societies (RSCS) intends to inspire itself of all these experiences to organize an original multidisciplinary approach. One of the main challenge for this approach in RSCS is to continuously improve fruitful interactions between theological and narrative analysis with other scientific disciplines, open to a variety of religious traditions, ranging from Judaism and Christianity to Islam, and also Buddhism and Hinduism.
Theology
Pedagogy - Canon Law - Ethics - Biblical Exegesis - Systematic Theology - Practical Theology - Islamic Theology ...
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Anthropology
Religious Anthropology - Cultural Anthropology - Bouddhist Anthropology …
Arts & Literature
Literature & Religion - History of Art and religion - Cinema, Art and Religion …
Law
Religious Freedom, Non-Establishment, Human Rights, Belgian Law, European Law …
Ethics
Comparative Ethics, Bioethics, …
History
Comparative History of religions - History of Christianity - Antiquity - Modern and contemporary ages …
Philology
Exegesis - Hebrew - Greek - Latin - Ancient Languages - Arab and Islamic Philology …
Philosophy
Philosophy of religion - Political Philosophy - Moral Philosophy - Islamic Philosophy …
Psychology
Psychology of religion - Social psychology - Developmental Psychology, …
Religious Studies
Comparative History of religions - Philosophy of religion - Socio-anthropology of religions - Psychology of religion - Law & religions - Comparative Ethics …
Political Science
Religion & politics - Religion & geopolitics…
Sociology
Sociology of religions - Cultural Sociology - Sociology of Islam …