The study of the world's great religions and the role they play in culture and society. The study of religion offers an encounter with the almost limitless depth and breadth of human experience. You will experience a diversity of religious ideas, practices, and expressions in cultures new and old, Western and Eastern, familiar and remote, declining and emerging. Courses in the Religious Studies program fall into five broad categories World Religions, Biblical Studies, Theology, Religion and Culture, and History of Christianity and cover anything from ancient myths and symbols in India to spiritual issues in the films of Ingmar Bergman.
Faculty members have a wide variety of interests.
A three-year major is available through Distance Education.