Welcome to Graduate Studies in Religious Studies

The study of society, culture and religion is one of the most comprehensive ways of understanding humankind and human visions of reality. How do religions motivate people in a range of activities, both to create and destroy? In what ways do the world’s religions inform the arts, politics, and personal and social ethics? How do traditions relate to the range of human experience and spirituality in both the past and the present in different parts of the globe? These are a few of the core questions you’ll ask as a student in Religious Studies.

Key Areas of Graduate Studies

Religion & The Human Condition

• Discover religious thinkers and examine how they have grappled with the important philosophical, ethical, and political questions posed by various religions.

Religions in Historical Perspective

• Understand the diverse religious practices and ideas that have developed from antiquity to the present.

Culture & Contemporary Society

• Explore the various ways in which religion impacts our contemporary world, both locally and globally.

Texts & Tradition

• Learn how authoritative religious texts have been composed, understood, interpreted, and reinterpreted by their communities.