Doctorate in History of Christianity

Students in this concentration study the Christian religion through critical historical investigation of the unity, diversity, and development of Christian communities, their material cultures and spiritualities, and their relations to other religions. This concentration offers opportunities to study in ancient, medieval, Reformation, early modern, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christianity. The History of Christianity concentration urges its students to take advantage of the historians and other students of religion at the University of California, Berkeley.