Department
The Religion Department seeks to provide:
The department offers courses in a variety of areas in the study of religion, clustered around the particular interests and expertise of the faculty. We have courses that fulfill the requirements for Cultural Diversity, Perspectives on the non-Western World, Writing Intensive, as well as Arts and Humanities.
In addition, we offer a Jewish Studies minor. Successful religion majors come out of the program with three skills central to a sound liberal arts education:
It is not the goal of our program to convince students to “be religious,” but rather to think critically and reflectively about the religious dimension of their own and other people’s experience. A comparative approach is essential for critical reflection, so students will study not one but several religions, namely, Western Biblical traditions, Islam, East Asian and native traditions, and contemporary religious movements like eco-feminism. Recognizing in addition the importance of experiential learning for understanding “religion-in-action,” we encourage students with interests in social activism and/or particular religious traditions to pursue them in service learning or other extra-curricular activities and will provide students with opportunities to reflect on the religious dimensions of such experiences.
If you only know one religion, you don’t know any.
~ Martin Marty
