The BA in religious studies is designed to give students an understanding of the major religious traditions of the world. The degree has a comparative and cross-cultural perspective that relates to global issues. Areas of study include Eastern religious traditions (Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Hin...
Jaimie Gunderson holds a BA from the University of Arizona in Religious Studies, an MA from the University of Kansas in Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East, an MA and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean with a specialty in New Testamen...
Kristofer Stinson received his BA in history from Northwest Nazarene University, where he was recognized for both his work in Early American history and in secondary education, and his MA in history from George Mason University. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of History and Art Histo...
On one hand, the academic study of religion entails the examination of and even comparison between the socio-historical contexts of explicitly religious institutions, infrastructure (e.g., temples, kivas, mosques, stupas, churches, altars, etc.), images and symbols, ritual and ethical practices, writ...
Religions or a sense of the religious have been integrally part of the human condition from antiquity to the present. Since Herodotus in the fifth century BCE in Asia Minor and north Africa, and Bartolomé de las Casas in the sixteenth century among Indigenous Americans, the early study of religion ha...
In this course, students primarily explore the history, practices, beliefs, and contemporarydevelopments of the three major monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Studentswill examine these three religious traditions thematically and comparatively, in order to understandthe simil...
