Courses in Theology and Religious Studies promote critical understanding and analysis of religion/religions in a global context. They are vital for understanding, navigating and changing a world shaped in complex and diverse ways by religion and spirituality, and in which religious identities and diversity are constantly being negotiated.

Students sharpen their understanding of people, cultures and societies within their own locality and experience, and in other cultural and historical contexts. They can engage with a variety of ways of seeing and acting in the world, including some that conflict with or challenge their own. The sophisticated understanding of religion afforded by a degree in this area means graduates can contribute to discussion of topics including international relations, community relations, human rights, social justice, wealth disparity, sustainability, climate change and the digital revolution.