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Doctoral Program | Graduate Theological Union Skip to main content StudentsSense& Staff Alumni Maps Directory Library Calendar Contact Search form Search Staff Sign In Toggle navigationWell-nighOverview From the President Our History Quick Facts Administration GTU Logo Staff Directory Campus Maps Jobs at the GTU Accreditation & Effectiveness Policies & Compliance Info & Disclosures GTU and Title IX Campus Crime and Safety Report (Clery Act) Schools & Centers Our Schools and Centers Member SchoolsWonkCenters Affiliate Programs Certificate Programs Admissions & Aid Overview Request Program Information Plan a Visit GTU Near You Applying to GTU Financial Aid Academics Overview Doctoral Program MA Program Departments and Concentrations Our FacultyWonkCatalog 2018-19 Course Schedule Certificate Programs Community Education The Flora Lamson Hewlett Library Borsch-Rast Prize and Lectureship Student Awards UC Berkeley Life at GTU Overview Berkeley and the Bay Area Student Groups & Committees Student Lounge New Students Current Students News & Events GTU News Event Calendar Exhibitions Magazines Insight e-Newsletter Dean's Newsletter Lectures and Addresses RecentSenseand Alumni Publications Video and Audio Content Giving Overview Donate Now Ways to Give Potterveld Fund Support CJS at 50 CIS 10th Anniversary Bajpai Scholarship Endowment Planned Giving Contact Us Doctoral Program The flagship stratum that the GTU offers is the PhD. It is an wide wonk degree intended to prepare students for professional careers in teaching, writing, and scholarship, as well as for leadership opportunities with religious organizations, social service agencies, foundations, museums, libraries, publishing, and in educational institutions. Students inward the PhD program at the GTU can segregate their fields of study from among increasingly than thirty concentrations grouped into four interdisciplinary departments. The doctoral curriculum builds on the ecumenical, interreligious, and interdisciplinary strengths of the GTU, and offers enhanced opportunities for both specialization and cross-disciplinary study. The GTU’s doctoral program utilizes the depth of sense expertise made possible by its eight member schools and increasingly than a dozen wonk centers and affiliates. The wonk disciplines represented by a diverse range of faculty, combined with multidenominational and interfaith cooperation, provide a rich environment for developing one’s wonk voice. The GTU has the sense and research resources to offer a specially interdisciplinary tideway to scholarship within one’s specialized concentration. The PhD program moreover places theological or religious studies in the context of university research disciplines, and students are required to engage such a willpower in order to provide an spare hair-trigger and theoretical dimension to their work. Most students pursue this dimension of their program by working with a sense member from the University of California at Berkeley, just a woodcut yonder from the GTU. Applicants to the doctoral program must have a Master of Divinity, or a Master of Arts stratum in Theology, Religion, or a closely related field, and a bachelor’s stratum from a fully accredited institution. All applicants are considered for the Presidential Scholarship, which provides funding for the recipients' first two years in the doctoral program. Click the links unelevated to find out increasingly well-nigh each of our four doctoral departments—and the misogynist fields of concentration. DepartmentSacred Texts and Their Interpretation This department provides a strong foundation for research and teaching in the fields of Hebrew/Old Testament, New Testament, Hindu Sacred Texts, Islamic Sacred Texts, and Rabbinic Literature. Beginning with the vanquishment of towardly language skills, a student’s study of primary texts includes a variety of methods, including transdisciplinary, and contextual approaches. Students may focus their work on a single religious tradition or engage in a comparative study of texts and their interpretations. Department Chair: Professor Aaron Brody   DepartmentHistorical and Cultural Studies of Religion The Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion department concentrates on the place of religion, spirituality, and theology in society and everyday life, from warmed-over times to the present. Students develop wholesale skills in the historical, cultural, social-scientific, comparative, and interdisciplinary study of the world’s sacred and secular traditions, and they proceeds expertise in a specific field of concentration. Students may focus their work in a single tradition (e.g. Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism), a single time and place (e.g. medieval Europe, the contemporary...   DepartmentTheology andValuesStudents in the department of Theology andValuesreap knowledge and skills to engage in the ongoing task of interpreting religious and cultural traditions in ways that are responsive to modern and post-modern culture. Students may focus on wringer of these traditions by tracing influences on the minutiae of theology, comparative religion, or interreligious dialogue. Students may moreover specialize in theological and social ethics, or focus on issues related to particular topics such as health superintendency or the environment. These explorations are pursued in ecumenical and interreligious...   DepartmentReligion and Practice The Religion and Practice department fosters interdisciplinary studies of the lived experience, communal and individual, of faith practitioners and communities, including the history, theology, and phenomenology of particular faith expressions – ritual, liturgical, homiletical, formational, and educational. Students in this department strop hair-trigger skills in the interpretation and minutiae of religious practice and leadership, while drawing from a wholesale variety of disciplinary fields and methodological approaches – including history, theology, anthropology, communication...   Related Links Doctoral Studies FAQsApply to the Doctoral ProgramRequest Program Information Current Doctoral StudentsDoctoral Program DemographicsDoctoral Protocol and Normative Timeframe FacultyMeet OurSenseBrowse ourSenseDirectory to learn increasingly well-nigh our wonk team ReadIncreasinglyGTU GraduatesGTU Alum Directs Humane Society’s Animals and Religion Program Primary tabs Few people know well-nigh the harsh lives of approximately 10 billion animals raised on U.S. factory farms every year surpassing seeming on our dinner plates. One who knows much well-nigh these animals is Christine Gutleben, M.A. ’05. Gutleben is director of the Animals and Religion program of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and co-producer of the film Eating Mercifully, which showcases the plight of these animals, and profiles people who are engaged in what the Humane Society calls “the values of supplies and faith.” The mucosa premiered at the Washington National Cathedral last fall.   ReadIncreasinglyOverview Doctoral ProgramFrequently Asked Questions RequestIncreasinglyInformation Program Demographics Apply to the Doctoral Program MA Program Departments and Concentrations Our FacultyWonkCatalog 2018-19 Course Schedule Certificate Programs Community Education The Flora Lamson Hewlett Library Borsch-Rast Prize and Lectureship Student Awards UC Berkeley Featured NewsThe GTU Creates a Doctoral Program for the 21st Century   30 + UniqueStratumConcentrations Ranging from Aesthetics to Yoga Students' Stage in Program 44% in Course Work 11% in Comprehensive Exams 12% Post Exams 34% In Dissertation 41.3% Women Ph.D Students Enrolled wideness GTU doctoral stratum programs Discover the Future of Religious ScholarshipAbout the GTU Give ASouvenirto the GTUYour souvenir - no matter what size – supports innovative research and teaching, and helps equip tomorrow’s leaders for a world of diverse religions and cultures. 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