Our Religious Studies students are equipped to understand our diverse and rapidly changing world while learning much about themselves. This comparative field of study imbues students with the ability to assess diverse actions, traditions, and values. The knowledge and habits of mind learned in Religious Studies remain relevant forever, as key to a life of conscious choice and thoughtful, multi-cultural engagement.
Religious Studies courses help you examine your core values, both objectively and in terms of personal experience. In our classes, you will explore how people make sense of the world and enhance your global cultural knowledge as you engage in a wide variety of topics from barbecue to baseball, magic to mindfulness, and sexuality to the sacred.
Patrick Michelson delivered a paper at the University of Leeds’s School of History about Russian Orthodox Discourses about War and the West.
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The journal American Religion, coedited by religious studies professors Cooper Harriss and Sarah Imhoff, will collaborate with the Smithsonian Institute’s Center for the Understanding of Religion in American History on the Under Gods project.
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Thanks to the generosity of donors, we are able to support many initiatives vital to the flourishing of the department. Your contribution will have a lasting and positive impact on future generations of students in the Department of Religious Studies.
Year-end giving
Prof. Michael Ing hosted 10 scholars from Hawaiʻi and other parts of the world to workshop their papers for an edited volume titled Approaches to Hawaiʻi Philosophy.
More on the upcoming book
Familiar names have turned up in American Religion’s new online series Back Pages, which kicked off this Fall.
See who has been contributing
The Undergraduate Religious Studies Association’s recently took a trip to Bloomington’s Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center.
Read more about itOur department is home to an incredible community of teachers and students ready to support your intellectual and personal pursuits. We are innovative and open-minded researchers who welcome unconventional ideas to help us better understand the role religion plays in culture and society.
The study of religion broadens and deepens your understanding of the diverse richness and mystery that attends being human. Our faculty is engaged in research through the LUCE-funded Being Human project to learn more about what it means to be human in our rapidly changing world.
Jan 29
Religion and the Human Lectures Series: Judith Weisenfeld
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Feb 17
Religion and the Human Lecture Series: Mary Farag
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