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BA in Religious Studies

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...

Minor in Islamic Studies

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences offers a minor in Islamic Studies designed for students interested in the societies, cultures, history, and politics of the Islamic world. It offers students the opportunity to study the many societies that have significant Muslim populations. These socie...

Learn more about next year's fellows!

Learn more about next year's fellows!

The Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce its fall 2023 and spring 2024 cohorts. All were chosen to work on research projects related to CHR's 2023-24 annual theme, "Democracy, Disposability, and Repair." Congratulations to all of our new faculty and graduate fellows! Learn more abou...

Histories, Encounters, Communities

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...

Prospective Students

...it might well be said that one’s education is not complete without a study of comparative religion or the history of religion... Abington v. Schempp, U.S. Supreme Court (1963) Why Study Religion at Mason? Studying religion at George Mason prepares you for engagement in our increasingly inte...

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George Mason’s Religious Studies Department offers a wide selection of courses and degree programs for an intensive study into a singular religion, comparative study across various religions, and cross-disciplinary study on the engagement between religion with other areas of human life, like politics...

RELI 211-DL1: Religions of the West

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Spring 2024 -  Mohammad Mahdi M Shahkolahi   -  Section Syllabus

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...