SSR Mission Statement: The Society for the Study of Religion is a student-led organization that encourages dynamic discussion regarding religious studies. Our mission is to re-examine and re-define religion as it relates to lived human experience. Whether you're a Religious Studies major, minor...
Regardless of one’s own religious identity or heritage—or even whether one likes or dislikes organized religion—acquiring a basic competency or fluency about religion is fundamental to the understanding of any culture and its visual and performative arts, literature, ethical worldview and legislation...
...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...
This course introduces students to the life and legacies of Muhammad (Peace Be UponHim), the Prophet of Islam. This course surveys the sources of the biographical narrativesin understanding his prophetic career. By engaging leading scholars of Islam, this courseexamines his important life events, rev...
