The Dalai Lama of Tibet who visited Ireland this year is a monk, a religious figure revered worldwide, and of course an atheist.

Baffled? You don’t need to be. The Religions and Global Diversity programme is new to UCC. It’s about Buddhism and Hinduism, East

Asian religions, Islam, Christianity and all the rest. In the Religions and Global Diversity programme we study religions in an open

and objective way. Religions aren’t all the same, they are influential, they keep changing, and no-one knows what’s going to

happen next (just watch the news)!

RG1001 Religions in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to the Study of Religions (15 credits)