Religion, Identity And Conflict

Queen's University Belfast MA in HISTORY: "Religion, Identity and Conflict"

Once largely relegated to church history, religion has emerged as a central concern for today’s historians, who see religion as a key element in the formation of national identities and modern social structures, in the history of ideas, and in the development of civil and international conflicts. Reflecting, in part, the importance of religion to the history of Ireland, the study of religion has long remained a focal point of historical research at Queen’s. MA students who join this strand will have opportunity to work with scholars whose engagement with the religious dimension of identities and conflicts stretches from the medieval period to the present and from Africa, through Europe to North America.