Programs for Graduates with Doctoral Degree in Study of Religion
（Faculty Code：010107 ）
I. Objectives
1、This faculty combines theory with practice and aims at training advanced religious
professionals. It is required that doctoral graduates have deep-rooted and basic knowledge in
religion and all kinds of special religious theories, can do religious research independently,
and further more master one kind of the theory. After graduation the graduates can engage in
research and teaching work on religion, performing practical work of religious administration
and working on press publishing and foreign affairs, etc.
II.Tendency
1. Study of Judaism
2. Study of Christianity
3. Study of Buddhism
4. Religious Comparison and Dialogue
III. Duration of study
Full-time doctoral graduates are required to normally study for three years in length, with the longest time
not exceeding five years. For the master-doctor degree graduates, the time for study is normally five years, with
the longest time not exceeding six years.
IV. Total credits
For doctoral graduates, 20 credits are required, and the master-doctor degree
graduates are required 40 credits at lest.
V. Curriculum & credits (see the curriculum in details)
Compulsory courses:
1. 3 credits, Marxism theory
2.
3 credits, First foreign language; 2 credits, Second foreign language(if the graduate’s
first language is English he\she can choose the second language as selective course; if the
first language is not English he\she should choose the second language as the compulsory course,
normally choose English course)
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3.
Faculty degree courses
3 credits, Research on the study of religion
5 credits , frontier- field academic lectures. (6 credits for the master-doctor degree
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graduates)
5.
Selective courses:
The faculty of Judaic study: 3 credits, study of Jewish; 3 credits, study of Jewish mysticism
The faculty of Christian study: 3 credits, Christian history; 3 credits, Christian theology
The faculty of Buddhist study: 3 credits, Buddhist philosophy; 3 credits, study of the
relationship between Confucianism and Taoism and Buddhism
The faculty of the religious comparison & dialogue: 3 credits, Introduction of Chinese & western
religious classics; 3 credits, study of the comparative methods of religion
Graduates can select courses among the first-class courses for doctoral graduates (such as
the doctoral courses in Chinese philosophy)
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Supplementary courses
Doctoral graduates with the same-level degree or non-major degree are required to select one
post-graduate major course for their studies. The results are recorded in the personal files with no credits.
VI. Mid-term assessments
Our faculty performs mid-term assessment on doctoral graduates which is held in the third term. The
master-doctor degree graduates will take a credential exam. The failed can not begin their dissertation writing,
and should apply for postponing graduation. (1) Mid-term assessment consists of writing exam on basic
theories and oral exam. (2) The credential exam will be held at the end of the second postgraduate term. The
postgraduates who apply for master-doctor degree should fulfill the postgraduate courses and remarks of the
major courses reach excellence. The postgraduates also are required to publish one paper on academic
publications, based on which the applier should take a professional oral exam, and the qualified can study for
the master-doctor degree.
VII. Scientific research and degree dissertation
Doctoral thesis is an important criterion for measuring a doctor's academic level and a faculty level in
cultivating doctors. There are three important steps in the work of cultivating doctors: dissertation starting
report, mid-phase progress report and the dissertation pre-defense. (1) Dissertation starting report is carried out
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at the end of the third term, the doctoral graduates are required to report to the professor team on the
thinking mode of the dissertation, the plan on the outline of the dissertation’ s writing and the preparation
of the data; (2) mid-phase progress report is carried out during the fifth term, during which the doctoral
graduates should report to the professor team about the rate of process, the difficulties and the further
plan, declaring that either completing the dissertation in accordance with the plan or postponing the
dissertation defense. (3) The dissertation pre-defense is that 3 months ahead of the applying for official
dissertation defense, the doctoral graduates report to the tutor team on the result of the dissertation writing.
Based on the tutor’s advice, the doctoral graduates perfect the dissertation.
To guarantee the quality of the paper, the writing time should not be less than two years and for the
master-doctor degree students, not less than three years.
The achievements of the dissertation are shown in the form of at least one academic paper, published on
academic publications at CSSCI, SCI and EI, with himself being the first author and Shandong University as
the author's unit. The doctoral graduates also can publish two papers on other publications or take part in
writing an academic work, at lest 30,000 words.
VIII.Practice
This faculty will properly carry out practical activities, such as religious social
investigation, visiting religious institutes, and performing at religious administrative
divisions, etc.
Enclosed: List for main classic works and academic journals
Classic works
I、Classic Works:
The Old Testament; The New Testament; Introduction of Bibl; Modern Judaic Campaign; Jewish
People, Jewish Though; Hebrew Grammar; Modern Judaic Philosophy; Christian Ethic; Basic
Styles of Religious Life; Religion and Japanese Society; Tan Jing; Jin Gang Jing; Chinese
Buddhism History; Chinese Buddhism Philosophy; and so on.
II、Academic journals:
Study of World Religion;
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Research on the Study of Religion;
Study of Modern Religion;
Religion;
Studies of Zhouyi ;
Literature, History and Philosophy;
Religion and Culture;
Buddhism Culture;
And relevant internal and external academic journals included.
Curriculum for Doctoral Degree in Study of Religion
Kinds
Order
Course
Total
Names
Terms
Codes
Credits
Lecturers
sessions
Department
Marxism&
1
DP09002
Exam
1st
contemporary
54
2
of Marxism
&Leninism
ideology streams
Foreign
2
DP91011
First
foreign
1st
108
3
language
Languages
Institute
Major
Compulsory
3
D001002
courses
foreign
2nd
36
1
Fu You de
language
compulsory
course for
Second foreign
4
DP91021
language
2nd
(English)
72
2
Foreign
those whose
Languages
first
Institute
foreign
language is
not English
4
5
D001040
Study
of
religion
1st
72
3
Frontier-field
6
D001001
academic
5
lectures
Religious
writing
faculty
Religious
writing
faculty
Judaic
7
D001041
study of Judaic
thought
1st
72
3
Fu You de
faculty,
writing
8
9
10
D001042
D001043
D001044
Study of Jewish
mysticism
Judaic
2nd
72
3
elic
writing
Christian
Christian
1st
history
72
3
Liu Xin li
11
12
D001045
D001046
faculty,
writing
Christian
Christian
2nd
thelogy
72
3
Xie Wen yu
faculty,
writing
Selective
courses
faculty,
Buddhist
Buddhist
1st
philosophy
72
3
Chen Jian
faculty,
writing
Study of the
Buddhist
relationship
faculty,
between
2nd
Confucianism
72
3
Chen Jian
writing
and Taonism and
Buddhism
Chinese
13
D001047
and
western
Religious
1st
religious
classics
72
3
Religious
comparative
faculty
faculty,
writing
5
Study
Chinese
14
D001048
of
Religious
and
western
2nd
religious
72
3
Religious
faculty
comparative
faculty,
writing
comparison
Supplementary
courses
Select among the courses for postgraduate of the study of religion
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