Religious Roots of Europe: Space, Art, and Identity in Synagogue, Church, and Mosque

This course explores how Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, and Islam developed between the first century and approximately 750 CE. You will study how art, sacred sites, and archaeological findings reveal connections, conflicts, and exchanges between these traditions. The course also highlights how holy places shape interreligious relations and contribute to processes of identity formation.

The course helps you understand how people and groups shape their identities through their interactions with religious, social, and political environments. You will explore how factors like art, gender, economy, history, and collective memory influence these processes.

Course literature

The course literature listed may be updated up to eight weeks before the course begins.

The course consists of two main components. First, you take part in online teaching through a digital learning platform. This includes a number of written assignments and participation in online activities. You need access to a computer and internet connection, and the department provides information about technical requirements and the learning platforms.

The second component is a compact seminar at one of the universities of the Religious Roots of Europe programme, and possibly a field trip where art and archeology can be studied in site. Participation in the compact seminar is compulsory, and while the field trip is optional it is strongly recommended.

This course can be studied as a component of the Master's programme Religious Roots of Europe (120 credits), but can also be studied as a freestanding course. If you want to know more about the program, or individual courses about religion and its history, contact the academic advisors at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies.

Prerequisites

Bachelor's degree in theology, religious studies, classical philology, classical archeology, history or equivalent

Selection criteria

Seats are allocated according to: ECTS (HPAV): 100 %.

Tuition fees for non-EU/EEA citizens

Citizens of countries outside:

• The European Union (EU)
• The European Economic Area (EEA) and
• Switzerland

are required to pay tuition fees. You pay an instalment of the tuition fee in advance of each
semester.

Tuition fees, payments and exemptions

Full programme/course tuition fee: SEK 20,833
First payment: SEK 20,833

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Note that you may also need to pay an application fee, or provide proof of exemption.

Application fee

No tuition fees for citizens of the EU, EEA and Switzerland

There are no tuition fees for citizens of the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland.