Department of Religious Studies












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            The archeologist and cuneiform researcher Blahoslav Hruška led the “Department of Religiou

            Theory” from 1998 to 2004 when the scholar on religion Jiří Gebelt became the head of the 
            of Religious studies”. From 2008 to 2010 the Department was led by the Orientalist and Afr
            Kropáček. The head of the Department is currently the scholar on religion Zdeněk Vojtíšek.


            Religious studies are a separate field of study at the Hussite Theological Faculty. It is 
            possible to combine it with Hussite theology, Orthodox theology or Jewish studies in Bache

            Master Study Program.


            Similarly to other Religious Studies university workplaces the aim of Religious studies at
            Theological Faculty is to thematise individual religions of the past and present and to re
            issues connected to scientific study of religion. In the history of Christendom and Judais

            collaborates with other workplaces of the Hussite Theological Faculty. The root members of
            focus on research and teaching religion of ancient Near East, esoteric traditions and new 
            movements, history and current issues of Islam and Philosophically-religious traditions of

            China. Bearing in mind that religious cognition is culturally conditioned and of a constru
            members of the Department of Religious Studies also research the discipline itself, its hi
            into its solutions and prerequisites and methods of religious research.