History and Culture of Religions
This course aims at developing professional historians in the areas of History and Culture of the Religions. The goal is to guide the students to the advanced research of the problems that define the great historical religions and that determine the dialogue between the Eastern and the Western Cultures, as well as the problems of the construction of the matrix/the basis of the medieval, modern and contemporary European cultures. This course also aims at filling a national gap in the area of historiography about History and Culture of the Religions, thus resorting to the human and scientific capital available at a great level at the University of Lisbon.
State-of-the-art knowledge at the forefront of an area of study or work and in the interconnection between areas; more advanced and specialized skills and techniques, necessary for solving critical problems in the area of research and/or innovation for the expansion and redefinition of existing knowledge or professional practices.
Access and ingress
Holders of an MA degree can apply to this programme of studies. Other candidates include: students who have been approved in the curricular part of a specialised MA with the final average of at least Good with distinction; BA graduates in History by Portuguese Universities with the minimum final grade of sixteen; Holders of a legally recognized and equivalent non-Portuguese BA degree; and holders of a scientific curriculum that attests to the referred degree, and whose candidacy must be approved by the Scientific Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. The doctorate in the branches of Art History and Heritage Sciences and Restoration Theory will be obtained after attending and passing the curricular component of the PhD programme and approval of the respective dissertation in a public examination.
