Religious Studies

专业详情

The program in Religious Studies introduces students to the academic study of religion. Students in Religious Studies learn how to think, talk, and write about religion in a way that is well-informed, rigorously critical, and responsibly engaged. The study of religion investigates how human societies construct practices, seek meanings, and pose questions about their world. These investigations may be constructive, cultural, and/or historical. Since it touches all facets of human experience, the study of religion is a crucial conversation partner with other fields of study and draws on the entire range of humanistic and social scientific disciplines. Students in the program can explore numerous religious traditions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, and Shinto are exposed to the sources, problems, methods, and methodologies of our diverse areas of study. The interests of our students may be descriptive, explanatory, and/or normative.