The Department of Religious Studies organizes and implements basic and applied scientific research on issues related to Religious Studies; organizes and implements scientific research services and policy and legal consulting appropriate to the Religious Studies specialty.
Main research directions
- Research on issues of Theory and Methodology of Religious Research:
- Methods of religious research.
- Origin, nature and function of religion
- Religious forms in history, structure of religion
- Approaches in religious studies
- Research on world religions and Vietnam:
- History and development of world religions
- The process of introduction and development of world religions in Vietnam
- Doctrines, scriptures, and organizations of world religions
- History and process of formation and development of endogenous religion in Vietnam
- Doctrines and organizations of indigenous religions in Vietnam.
- Learn about the types of indigenous beliefs in Vietnam: ancestor worship, Mother Goddess worship, village tutelary god worship, and god worship.
- The transformation of some types of beliefs in Vietnam today: some issues raised.
- Religion, beliefs and social life
- The relationship of religion with other areas of social life: politics, culture, art, etc.
- Religious ethics and the influence of religious ethics on Vietnamese social ethics today
- Religious resources and promoting religious resources in Vietnam
- Religious policy and management of religious activities in Vietnam.
- Application of religion in social life
- Beliefs and spiritual cultural life of Vietnamese people
- Religious festivals