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Welcome to the homepage of The Religious Roots of Europe, a joint and international Master´s programme!

The Religious Roots of Europe (RRE) is a joint and international two-year Master’s Programme offered by the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki in cooperation with five other Nordic Universities of Aarhus, Bergen, Copenhagen, Lund and Oslo. Compact seminars are organised at all these institutions as well as in Nordic institutes in the Mediterranean area.

The aim of the RRE is to expose students to the traditions, formative processes and mutual interactions of the three most influential religions at the root of European culture and history, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

The RRE offers a truly international education with perspectives for a subsequent career in research and education as well as in governmental and private institutions, organisations and companies where the need for knowledge on religion and culture is increasingly recognised.

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3rd cycle students from Helsinki in Rome, where
one of the compact seminars is annually organised. Read more here about Teaching and Travelling.

Photo: Yulia Vasyanovych, 2011.