Nathan Lean is an author and scholar of religion, specializing in Islam and Christianity, anti-Muslim prejudice, and religion and American culture. He earned his PhD in Theology and Religious Studies from Georgetown University, where his dissertation focused on American jazz musicians who converted ...
The Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS) program in the College of Humanities & Social Sciences consists of multiple established degree paths that exist in partnership with academic units and faculty across the University. It offers a home for students with broad academic interests who seek a master'...
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...
Religion 399-2: The Emotional World of the Bible This course takes the perspective that, while emotions—such as shame--are universal to humankind, the catalysts for specific emotions—like the shame that Adam and Eve feel when naked in the Garden of Eden—is culturally relative. Thus, this course will...
