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 the Department of Religious Studies in celebrating the upcoming retirement of Rebecca Manring, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Language Instruction for the Dhar India Studies Program. Monday, Nov 2, 5:00pm, GISB GA1060.
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Grace Morris and Prof. Constance Furey are holding a Mysticism Reading Group. The group, which meets biweekly starting on Sept 25, will be discussing primary source texts relating to mysticism, starting with Women Mystics in Medieval Europe.
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Join the Center for Religion and the Human in the Neal-Marshall Bridgwaters Lounge on Thursday, November 5 at 6:00PM for the Charles H. Long Memorial Lecture by Anthony Pinn (Agnes Cullen Arnold Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Rice University).
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Professor Emeritus James S. Ackerman passed away Aug 11, 2026. He is best known for his work on Jonah, and the Bible as Literature.
Read About Jim AckermanOur 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.
Nov 02
Rebecca Manring Retirement Celebration
GLOBAL & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES BUILDING
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Nov 05
EASC Roundtable: Xiao Hai and Tony Hao
GLOBAL & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES BUILDING
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Nov 05
EASC Colloquium: Adrift in the South - Xiao Hai, Tony Hao
GLOBAL & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES BUILDING
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