Hi Ian,
I'm sure my son can sympathise. He has his BAHons in Religious Studies from Sydney Uni
(they have
now changed to the 'School for Studies in Religion') and is doing his Master's degree
at the
moment.
He lectures on Celtic religion up to the time of the coming of Christianity and just
beyond as
well as Norse religion up to the period of about 800AD - pre-Christian.
His experiences were the same whenever he mentioned his faculty everyone assumed he
studied
Christianity. I believe there must have been many that became annoyed enough so that
the name of
the faculty was changed.
Trudy
Ian Henderson wrote:
> Friends,
>
> One of my partner's degrees is in Religious Studies. The thing that annoys her
> in Australia (she is from NZ) is that as soon as she mentions this it is assumed
> she has studied theology and Christianity.
>
> She primarily teaches Asian and Polynesian religions. Her PhD thesis is on the
> impact on women of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. The indigenous
> society in the Philippines religion was Animism, and both the religion and the
> culture were dominated by women. The Catholic Church soon fixed that.
>
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