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.
Please join Teaching Religion in Public (TRiP) for ARTIFICE a multimodal public workshop at which attendees will be invited to explore the questions that artificial intelligence raises for thinking, teaching, and being human on April 17th.
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Prof. Aaron Stalnaker has been awarded a Love Ethics Faculty Fellowship from the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good at Notre Dame University for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Read more about the award
Prof. Laura Carlson Hasler recently published an article in the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures about the representation of Persian media in the biblical book of Daniel.
Read her article
The Undergraduate Religious Studies Association attended the performance of a staged adaptation of Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code at the Waldron Auditorium by Constellation Stage and Screen.
See Constellation’s schedule
The ARTIFICE reading series discussed the preface and final chapter of Virginia Heffernan’s Magic and Loss, which has been described to “illuminate the logic, aesthetics, and mysteries of the Internet.”
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Provost Professor Emeritus Winnifred Fallers-Sullivan will give a talk entitled, “Talking to God: Joan of Arc, Political Theology, and Swift Hall” at the University of Chicago Divinity School on May 1st.
Event DetailsOur 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.
May 09
Religious Studies Graduation Reception
Neal Marshall Black Cultural Center
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The College of Arts