About Us

The Department of Studies in Culture and Religion has two Bachelor’s study fields - Transcultural Communication (in full-time and combined form) and Religious Education (in combined form of study). The Bachelor’s programme Transcultural Communication is also offered in English. It newly also opens a Master's degree study field in Transcultural Communication.

The department's profile is interdisciplinary on the boundary of the following scientific disciplines: ethics, religious studies, philosophy, theology, social and cultural anthropology, social and cultural history. The department is one of the best workplaces of the whole university in the field of scientific and publishing activities.

Every year, the department organizes valued scientific and professional conferences in cooperation with various partners attended by prominent guests. In recent years, it has been organized in particular a series of conferences Our Common Presence, which also featured leading foreign experts, such as the Norwegian cultural and social anthropologist Thomas H. Eriksen or German psychiatrist Manfred Spitzer, author of the book Digital Dementia.

The department established partnerships with theological faculties in Germany, Italy and Slovakia. It cooperates with the diocese of Hradec Králové, especially with the Diocesan Theological Institute and with the Diocesan and Regional Charity in Hradec Králové, in the Czech Republic.

At present, the department is in charge of the scientific research project of dr. Zdenka Sokolíčková boREALIFE examining the impact of climate change on the life of society on the Spitsbergen archipelago.