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The Centre for Contemporary Islam now has its own external website. See CCI. Grants available.
Welcome to the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town.
Central to human history as well as the diversity of civilizations, religion remains a formative and pervasive aspect of human culture and experience. The need to understand religion has never been more pressing than it is today, and at the University of Cape Town we are concerned with studying all aspects of religion, particularly in contemporary African society.
Religion has been studied at the University of Cape Town since 1967 and the Department is home to accredited journals as well as institutes that reflect the diverse range of research undertaken by out staff and students. Religious Studies takes as its subject, all religions, and their interaction with other aspects of life: intellectual, political and artistic. It is essentially pluralistic and is committed to no particular faith but endeavouring to understand each religion in its own terms, using the tools of textual, historical, sociological and philosophical analysis.
Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town
