Department of Religious Studies

What is religion? What does it mean to interpret religion?

This class is not a survey or a methods course. The goal is not to introduce you comprehensively to the study of religion or to equip you with a scholarly toolkit. Nor is it intended to enable you to identify the best theory of religion or to learn the decisive reasons for rejecting most of the ambitious theories from the past. It is instead an invitation to think deeply together about what we might mean by religion through thoughtful encounters with some intriguing and provocative writing about religious stuff, with a view to helping you to find your own voice in this conversation.