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Religious
Studies
The
Centre for Judaic and Inter-religious Studies, founded in
2003, is devoted into the research of Judaic &
inter-religious studies and engaged in the nurturing of
postgraduates.
With
years of endeavor, the Centre has made grandeur achievement in
academia. The two latest remarkable achievements it has
accomplished (in 2005) are:
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Being
ranked as one of the key research institutes in religious
studies amongst the Humanities and Social Sciences at Chinese
Universities.
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Being
a part of the 985 Program of Chinese Education Ministry.
Notable
researchers are:
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Professor
Fu Youde, expert in Judaism & comparative religious;
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Professor
Niu Jianke, expert in Japanese Buddhism.
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Professor
Ehrlich, expert in Judaism;
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Professor
Liu Xinli, expert in Christianity;
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Professor
Xie Wenyu, expert in Christianity;
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Professor
Chen Jian, expert in Buddhism;
One
more achievement is the building of the largest Judaica
library which also contains books on religion, philosophy and
sociology. The library collects books from many sources:
buying books with the fund supplied by 985 Programme,
receiving generous donations from Marvin Tokeyar and Mel
Stewart who are retired professors, Agur Fund in Hong Kong,
Institute of Sino-Christian Studies Centre in Hong Kong,
Hebrew College in Boston, Brandeis University, Texas
University, Lutheran Seminary in Norwegian. The library has
more than 4,000 collections of books, more than 120 kinds of
journals among which rare in China are: the complete works of
Luther (German version), Encyclopedia Judaica (English
version), Talmud, Bible Dictionary and some more.
In
the nurturing of postgraduates, in 2005 it was granted the right to offer Ph.D
degrees in religious studies. Before this time, M.A degrees were in religious studies (M.A.R) and
Ph.D degrees in philosophy. Altogether the Centre has 65
postgraduates since 2001.
Furthermore, the
Centre established close relationship with institutes abroad
such as Hebrew University in Israel, Bar-Ilan University in
Israel, Institute of Sino-Christian Studies in Hong Kong and
Centre for Judaic Studies of Boston University in the USA, all
of which offer opportunities for postgraduates of the Centre
to study as exchange students or research as visiting
students.
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