About the Program
The establishment of the Religious Studies program at Al al-Bayt University, starting in the 2024/2025 academic year within the Faculty of Sharia, comes at a time when the region is in dire need of a pioneering and innovative specialization with such academic and scholarly characteristics in religious studies. This marks a significant step in introducing such a program at the national and regional levels, offering religious studies in a manner that resonates with our social environment, civilization, language, societal components, culture, customs, and traditions. Our land has always been, and remains, the land of prophets and messengers, the cradle of religions, and home to holy sites and religious symbols.
The Religious Studies program is unique in its comprehensive curriculum, encompassing all aspects of religious sciences and knowledge. This makes it a global program that serves the issues of religions, highlighting their civilizational values and their engagement with global challenges. It attracts Jordanian, Arab, and international students from around the world who aspire to learn about comparative religion and its intellectual, cultural, and civilizational dimensions.
This program opens up broad horizons for its students in the local, regional, and global job markets, including religious centers, religious tourism, religious media, and ministries of culture and youth, thanks to the specialized knowledge and skills they acquire that contribute to building a safe religious culture for societies.
Vision & Mission
Vision
Towards a leading and distinguished academic program for teaching and learning religious sciences and knowledge, with the aim of enhancing their role in serving and developing our societies locally and globally.
Mission
Creating a pioneering scientific environment that seeks to advance religious education and learning within international standards, achieving diversity in religious knowledge in an atmosphere of moderation and tolerance as well as authenticity and modernity, and preparing a qualified academic generation within the requirements and needs of the labor market, and they possess a rational and balanced religious outlook on future social, cultural, economic and environmental issues
Program Objectives
- Firstly: Addressing issues of interfaith and intercultural dialogue with the aim of consolidating the values of pluralism and diversity, promoting social cohesion and peace at the regional and global levels, and disseminating shared human and ethical values that contribute to strengthening cooperation between religions and mitigating misconceptions about them.
- Secondly: preparing specialists in religious studies according to scientific principles presented by expert professors in this field, and to achieve leadership in religious studies in the region.
- Thirdly: Teaching courses related to religious studies with specialized expertise, according to a sound scientific methodology, based on moderation and balance, and with a scientific mindset open to scientific research and opening up horizons for comparative studies between religions.
- Fourthly: The program should contribute to correcting misconceptions about religions and their followers and promoting the values of mutual respect.
- Fifthly: The program should provide common religious foundations for achieving peace and social harmony among followers of religions, and establish scientific foundations for employing religion to serve humanity in the face of contemporary risks and challenges.
- Sixthly: The program seeks to establish a religious thought based on commonalities between religions in service of humanity with its local, regional and global existential and humanitarian issues, and to achieve a knowledge-building that is consistent with the issues of faith in order to achieve cultural diversity in its most beautiful forms and manifestations.
Learning Outcomes
- To be familiar with religious terminology related to doctrine, worship, transactions, personal status, symbols, and religious rituals from a sound religious perspective, relying on authoritative scholarly sources and references.
- To employ religious scientific research methodologies in studying issues related to the ethical and behavioral lives of followers of religions, drawing on the psychology and sociology of religion.
- To explain the historical development of religions, their doctrines, sects, intellectual currents, religious symbols, and sacred texts.
- To discuss, in a comparative manner, the positive role of religions in fostering cultural diversity and promoting the values of coexistence and mutual respect.
- To differentiate between religions in their approaches to issues of family, transactions, human rights, the environment, peace and war, and community security.
Relationship between Educational Objectives and Student Outcomes
A marked cell indicates that the outcome supports the objective.
O1Objective 1
O2Objective 2
O3Objective 3
O4Objective 4
O5Objective 5
O6Objective 6
L1Outcome 1
L2Outcome 2
L3Outcome 3
L4Outcome 4
L5Outcome 5
MappedNot mapped
Advising Plan
You can download the program advising plan from the links below:
