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| | Religious studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Religious studies is the multi-disciplinary, secular study of religion. | | | Emile Durkheim was the forefather of the sociological study of religion. | | | Functionalism, in regard to religious studies, is the analysis of religions and their various communities of adherents using the functions of particular religious phenomena to interpret the structure of religious communities and their beliefs. |
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| | Religious studies |
| | Study of Buddhist religious traditions in their historical and cultural contexts. | | | Study of Jewish scriptures (known to Christians as the Old Testament) in context of historical and cultural background, and issues of interpretation. | | | Survey religious traditions of Asia with special attention to Hinduism and Buddhism. |
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http://www.uwsp.edu/news/UWSPCatalog/religious.htm
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| | Albion College Religious Studies Department Home Page |
| | Religious Studies must not be confused with religion, nor should Religious Studies scholars be confused wit h the practitioners/believers of religion. | | | Scholars in Religious Studies examine the beliefs and practices of a religion or religions from an objective point of view. | | | The academic study of religion is different from religious education in churches, synagogues, temple or other religious institutions. |
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http://www.albion.edu/religstudies
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| | Religious Studies |
| | Consideration of western theism in terms of possibilities and forms of religious knowledge, rationality of belief in God, the challenge of the problem of evil, and the nature and significance of religion. | | | Courses in Religious Studies are divided into three streams: Eastern Traditions (Hinduism, Buddhism, East Asian Religions), Western Traditions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), and Religion and Culture. | | | This course examines various kinds of religious phenomena, including mystical experience, sacred texts, religious ethics, and ritual, and explores the different ways they are understood and interpreted in the discipline of Religious Studies. |
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http://www.mta.ca/calendar/ReligiousStudies.html
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| | Department of Religious Studies - Michigan State University |
| | The academic study of religion is open, that is to say unhampered by the boundaries and limiations that have been the norm in the denominational or doctrinally oriented teaching of religious worldviews. | | | The academic study of religion seeks to describe and interpret the nature of religion and the variety of religious worldviews. | | | The study of religious worldviews approaches religion comparatively in a cross-cultural context. |
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http://www.msu.edu/user/religstu
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| | Agnes Scott College Academics Religious Studies |
| | The field of religious studies focuses on the attempt to understand the world’s religions as expressive of what various peoples have come to regard as sacred. | | | While the department’s concern for the sacred has been shaped by the cultural traditions of Christianity, religious studies assumes that the study of Christianity, like the study of any other religious tradition, is best undertaken on the basis of a broad and comparative understating of all the world’s major religions. | | | Students majoring in religious studies typically acquire a broad and comparative understanding of the world’s religions by taking courses in all four major areas of the curriculum: Sacred Texts and Traditions, World Religions, Religious Thought and Social Context and Special Studies in Religion. |
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http://www.agnesscott.edu/academics/p_religious_studies.asp
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| | Religious Studies at UC Berkeley: Welcome |
| | The religious traditions that may be included as major fields of emphasis or as supplementary courses include the Jewish, Islamic, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions, as well as the religious cultures of China, Japan, Africa, and the Americas. | | | The general requirement involves courses that present the methodological approaches to the study of religion such as sociology of religion and psychology of religion and courses that examine thematic issues and cross-cultural phenomena such as myth, ritual, transformative experience, and comparative ethics. | | | It is not restricted to those who have a religious background or are pursuing a religious vocation. |
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http://ls.berkeley.edu/ugis/religiousstudies
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| | Religious Studies |
| | Jewish Studies: Religious Studies concentrates on Old Testament Judaism and the intertestamental period and relies on Jewish Studies holdings for post-Biblical non-Rabbinic Hebrew literature, Rabbinic literature, medieval and modern texts and critical studies etc. Jewish-Christian relations publications tend to be purchased for Religious Studies. | | | The history of the Collection, which was housed primarily in the former Religious Studies Library, really parallels that of the Faculty which began as a co-operative venture in theological education in 1912 when Anglican, Congregational, Methodist, and Presbyterian seminaries came together to form the Joint Board of Theological Colleges affiliated to McGill University. | | | A year later, in 1970, the name of the faculty was changed from Divinity to Religious Studies and the library was renamed the Religious Studies Library. |
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http://www.library.mcgill.ca/collect/religion.htm
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| | Religious Studies |
| | The Department of Religious Studies helps students acquire an appreciative and critical understanding of the history and literature of major religions in the East and West, and insight into the nature and meaning of the religious dimensions of human culture. | | | This course work must be chosen from courses in one of three concentration areas: western religious traditions; Asian religious traditions; or religion, culture, and society. | | | Students who choose to major in religious studies may count a maximum of three religious studies courses approved for the General Education Program as part of the 30 s.h. |
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http://www.registrar.uiowa.edu/registrar/catalog/collegeofliberalartsandsciences/religiousstudies.html
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| | Courses Religious Studies |
| | A multi-disciplinary study of the Christian gospel as a means to liberation in Canadian society; its roles in the theory and practice of liberation theologies; and the role of contemplation and action in political and spiritual life. | | | An introduction to the religious traditions of the East: history, religious beliefs and practices of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism and Shinto. | | | An examination of the nature of religious experience, the elements of religious group life, the ways in which religions are a source of social stability and peace as well as of social change and conflict. |
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http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infoucal/COURSE/course-RS.html
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| | Naropa University -Religious Studies |
| | Five graduate degrees are available: MA, Religious Studies; MA, Religious Studies with Language; MA, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism; MA, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism with Language; and a Master of Divinity. | | | The Department of Religious Studies offers courses of study that examine the phenomenon of religion as it affects individuals, as it operates in culture and as it addresses questions of life's ultimate values. | | | The Department of Religious Studies offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies, a certificate program in Religious Studies and the following minors: Religious Studies, Sanskrit and Tibetan. |
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http://www.naropa.edu/religiousstudies
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| | Religious Studies |
| | An expert on the American religious experience from Washington University in St. Louis argues that the only way to allow all citizens to contribute to this country's religious tapestry is for religion not to have a direct role in civil affairs and on government property. | | | Grant teaches a broad range of courses in literature and religious studies, including Introduction to Buddhism and Introduction to Asian Religions. | | | The program is particularly strong in its coverage of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and the religious traditions of East and South Asia. |
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http://news-info.wustl.edu/group/page/normal/48.html
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| | Religious Studies |
| | At Lewis & Clark, the study of religion is defined as a field of investigation distinct from religious practice. | | | Lewis & Clark’s Department of Religious Studies has chosen to focus on the study of religion as a social and cultural phenomenon. | | | The field of religion is broad in content, not only because of the variety of religious traditions in the world, but also because religion has pervaded nearly everything else in human experience. |
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http://www.lclark.edu/COLLEGE/DEPAR/REST
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| | Religious Studies |
| | The Religious Studies Department considers the study of religion essential to the liberal arts because of the Catholic intellectual tradition of the college. | | | Those teaching religion, those wishing further study in ministry, those desirous of pursuing doctoral studies, and those interested in enrichment are all served. | | | The Studies in Theology track is designed to promote the integration of a broad theological understanding within one's own personal faith stance. |
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http://www.msmc.la.edu/pages/219.asp
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| | University of Dayton Department of Religious Studies |
| | The Department of Religious Studies sees itself as a community of scholars serving the University community and the local community by teaching, research, criticism, and action. | | | The main concern of the department is the understanding and elucidation of the Judaeo-Christian religious experience as it is exemplified in the Roman Catholic tradition. | | | Tuesday, October 26, 2004 12:25 AM Page maintained by The Department of Religious Studies. |
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http://www.udayton.edu/~relstudy
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| | Religious Studies |
| | RE Today is wholly owned by the charity Christian Education, and is committed to the teaching of the major world faiths in Religious Education, and to an accurate and fair representation of their beliefs, values and practices in all its teaching materials. | | | The purposes of the Festival included offering opportunities to children and young people to explore and articulate their own beliefs and perspectives on a range of religious and spiritual topics, and one way in which the PCfRE sought to put this aim into action was by developing and distributing a questionnaire for pupils to complete. | | | Catholic Religious Education provides teaching and learning material for the Key Stage 3 programme, GCSE and post 16 education. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REVrs.htm
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| | Religious Studies |
| | Sandy Ritchie 10th October 2002 "Assess the view that religious language is meaningless." In recent times one of the most compelling and interesting arguments against God and religion has come from linguistic philosophy. | | | The statement "television always presents religious people out of touch with the modern world" is saying that all the programmes that are shown on television show religious people to be old fashioned and boring. | | | Lao-tzu Taoism is one of the two great philosophical and religious traditions that originated in China. |
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http://www.studentcentral.co.uk/Religious_Studies
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| | Bibliographies on the Net |
| | Method and Theory in the Study of Religion | | | Zen-Christian Mystics - Bibliography from the 1984 thesis: Mystic Cognition in Zen Buddhism and in Christianity: a study of D. Suzuki and St. John of the Cross, by Charles Callan Slippter | | | Contextualization Bibliographies - organized by religious dimensions, theologies, topics and religions. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/~lipton/biblio.html
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| | Religious Studies |
| | Religious studies also has four options for minor programs: religious studies, Asian religions, Judaism, and Christian studies. | | | Majoring in religious studies provides an opportunity to explore and analyze the great written and oral traditions of the world's religions: | | | The major introduces students to the academic study of religion. |
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http://religions.ucdavis.edu
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| | Religious Studies University of Colorado at Boulder |
| | This study aims to illuminate the dynamics of religion as a dimension of human culture and to develop theories and methods that advance our understanding of religion in its cultural and historical context. | | | The Department of Religious Studies pursues a critical and comparative study of religions. | | | familiarity with a variety of approaches to the academic study of religion, |
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http://www.colorado.edu/ReligiousStudies
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| | Virginia Wesleyan College Religious Studies Department |
| | The mission of the Department of Religious Studies is related fundamentally to the mission of Virginia Wesleyan College. | | | At the very least, they need to be "religiously literate" and recognize that if they offer a Burger King Whopper to a Hindu, a Wendy's Bacon Deluxe to an orthodox Jew, or a swig of Jack Daniels to a Muslim, the responses might not be all that warm. | | | Students need to be conscious of the role of religion in the world and in their own everyday lives. |
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http://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~relst
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| | St. F.X. Department of Religious Studies |
| | The Religious Studies department focuses on the role which religion has played and continues to play in the life of the individual and society. | | | Contemporary life issues are also examined in various courses in connection with religions and students are encouraged to become familiar with the primary texts (in translation) of various religions. | | | The courses which the department offers examine the relationship among religion, the individual, and society, recognizing that the answers provided by religions are both shaped by and shape the society of which they are a part. |
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http://www.stfx.ca/academic/religious-studies
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| | Religious Studies Program |
| | By focusing on religion as a dimension of human identity and culture, Religious Studies encourages the study of the continuities and changes within religious traditions, the operation of religions in particular social contexts, and the influence of religious ideas on human behavior and creativity. | | | The Religious Studies Program at the University of Texas is an interdisciplinary program dedicated to the exploration of the historical, intellectual, social, and cultural aspects of religion. | | | The academic discipline of Religious Studies seeks neither to make students religious nor to discourage religious beliefs and practice; rather, Religious Studies encourages the analysis of the ways religion functions within human society. |
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http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/rsp
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| | New York University Religious Studies Program |
| | The Religious Studies program is closely affiliated with the Center for Religion and Media. | | | The Program in Religious Studies explores religious practices as important aspects of social life. | | | We include three related approaches: examination of primary texts and artifacts; analysis of the ideas and activities that have contributed to the development of various religions; and interdisciplinary exploration of the theories and methods used in the study of religion. |
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http://www.nyu.edu/fas/program/religiousstudies
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| | Regent Undergrad |
| | The Religious Studies major is especially appealing online, because it allows you to continue in your current missions involvement while you prepare for the next step. | | | Our Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies not only deepens your own faith, it also gives you a practical understanding of how to reach others for Christ. | | | Our students learn to meet people where they are, to reveal God's true love and compassion for humanity. |
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http://www.regent.edu/acad/undergrad/academics/majors_rs.cfm
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| | Religious Studies Major - Hollins University |
| | She teaches the Biblical literature courses, the courses that fulfill the pastoral studies concentration--courses that consider world religions from a thematic perspective like autobiography, sexuality, women's roles, death, dying and bereavement. | | | Its focus is in the world's major religions, their rituals, beliefs, texts, and ethical systems, as well as the various cultural contexts that shape, and are in turn shaped by, religious communities and beliefs. | | | The shape of the major offers critical understandings of religion as community and individual enterprise, especially as religion relates to other human endeavors in the allied fields. |
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http://www.hollins.edu/undergrad/religion/religion.htm
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| | VoS - Voice of the Shuttle |
| | SisterSite ("a clearing house for information on women's religious congregations, the history of religious life, and the contemporary concerns of women in church and society. | | | Religion and Law Research Consortium "....RLRC is comprised of academic and government institutions dedicated to the study of law and religion, relationships of state and religion, and freedom of religion or belief")(hosted by Brigham Young U.International Center for Law and Religion Studies) | | | Michael Maasdorp Radical Faith ("is based on the supposition that a few Christians are interested in looking at the broader context in which their faith was born. |
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http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2730
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| | Wilfrid Laurier University - Faculty of Arts - Religion and Culture |
| | The study of religion at Laurier involves the investigation and analysis of the roles of religion in society and culture as well as in the lives of individuals. | | | Survey courses explore specific religious traditions such as Buddhism, Christianity and Hinduism in their cultural contexts, and specific topics, such as the nature of religious experience and ritual. | | | The Department offers undergraduate students the option to minor or major in Religion and Culture, as part of a 3-year (general) or 4-year (honours) B.A. It also offers a well-funded M.A. program, which students normally complete in three terms (e.g., September-December, January-April, May-August) after a 4-year honours B.A. in Religious Studies or a cognate field. |
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http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwrandc/internet_links.html
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| | Department of Religious Studies |
| | Religious Studies majors explore the religious dimensions of life and culture through the study of myth, symbol, ritual and doctrine. | | | Speakers from several religious traditions will offer reflections on need for a greater ecological consciousness in religious life and include: William Johnson Everett, Herbert Gezork Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Andover Newton Theological School, Ellen Bernstein Scholar and Activist, David Wellman from DePaul University& Religious Studies Department, and Safei-Eldin Hamed, of Texas Tech University. | | | The world's religions provide order and meaning as well as the capacity to challenge and transform individuals and societies. |
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http://condor.depaul.edu/~religion
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| | Religious Studies |
| | to enable students to approach, in a methodical way, the study of the major religious traditions living today for the purpose of encountering and understanding the life and the expression of religion through the various religions of the world; | | | Successful completion (65% average) of a minimum of ten term courses from at least four of the five areas of Religious Studies. | | | to introduce them to the distinctive features of one or more religious traditions and to the methods for their systematic study. |
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http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infoucal/9697/ARTS/rel_studies.html
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| | Religious Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| | The award-winning faculty and students in the Department of Religious Studies undertake academic research into the religions and cultures of the world. | | | Religious Diversity in Kingston Christianity and Sexuality Voluntary Associations in Antiquity | | | In addition to this strength in the world's major religions and cultures, faculty and and students also focus on the contemporary Canadian religious landscape. |
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http://rels.queensu.ca
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| | Religious Studies |
| | Main headings are: Religious Traditions, Religious Studies, Religion and Modernity, Reference Sources, and Religious Experience. | | | Council of Societies for the Study of Religion | | | Provides a search form for their Directory of Departments and Programs of Religious Studies in North America, which includes 1600 accredited departments and programs. |
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http://www.library.ubc.ca/relg
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| | Religious Studies -- Marshall University |
| | Through study of religion in its cultural and social contexts, of the major world religions, of religious literature, myth, symbolism, ritual, ethics, and religious experience, of religion in an age of science and technology, the department offers intellectual experience of the great questions and wisdoms of humanity, past and present. | | | , for the discussion of religious ideas and ideas about religion. | | | , on the meaning and practices of contemplation, spirituality and religious thought in contemporary culture among world-wide subscribers, and a Web Bulletin Board, |
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http://www.marshall.edu/rst
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| | Religious Studies at UW-Madison |
| | The Religious Studies Program, which is located in the College of Letters and Science, offers a multi-disciplinary curriculum covering religious traditions throughout the world. | | | Religious Studies/Hebrew and Semitic Studies 332, "Prophets of the Bible" | | | Religious Studies 400, lecture 2, "Early Christian Literature: The Gospels" |
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http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/rsp/relstud.htm
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| | BUBL LINK: Religious studies |
| | Collection of statistical information about religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, and movements arranged alphabetically by name and according to geographical area. | | | Summary data provides a list of the world's major religions and their major branches, the largest religious groups in the US, and the largest communities of various religions throughout the world. | | | Presents a bibliography of articles, books, and dissertations relating to spiritual and religious aspects of ageing. |
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http://bubl.ac.uk/link/r/religiousstudies.htm
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| | McMaster University - Department of Religious Studies |
| | The Department of Religious Studies focuses on religion and religious experience in a non-confessional, pluralistic environment. | | | The focus is the major world religions but the tools we use are diverse: anthropological, historical, literary-critical, philosophical, theological approaches are among those represented in the Department. |
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http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/relstud
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| | Religious Studies |
| | We, the diverse faculty in the Department of Religious Studies, aim to foster, through teaching, research, and service the human understanding of religion and religious traditions. | | | Our faculty consists of experts in Bible and biblical Hebrew, Christianity, religious ethics, Hinduism and Sanskrit, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and Arabic, African religions, and African-American studies. | | | North American Association for the Study of Religion |
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http://web.utk.edu/~religion
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| | Graduate School Directories - Religious Studies |
| | A variety of options are available given that some programs study many religions, while other programs focus very specifically on a particular religion or set of beliefs. | | | About the field of Religious Studies: Advanced degrees in religion offer students an opportunity to gain in-depth knowledge of an area of religious studies that interests them. | | | Advanced degrees in religion can be offered by seminaries in preparation for pastoral or teaching roles, but other institutions also offer advanced degrees in religion for those that wish to pursue other careers and feel that a comprehensive knowledge of religious studies would be helpful. |
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http://www.gradschools.com/listings/menus/religion_menu.html
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| | University of Lethbridge - Religious Studies |
| | Religious Studies is the study of religion, as understood in its broadest sense. | | | Each religious tradition has its own answers to such questions, along with its own set of moral values and ethical guidelines for its followers. | | | Religious Studies is grounded in an examination of the human response to our biggest questions, such as: why are we here? |
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http://www.uleth.ca/fas/relg
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| | BBC - Learning - Religious Studies |
| | Listen again to religious programmes including 'Thought for the Day'. | | | Learn about the origins of Islam and talk about religious issues on the message boards. | | | A handy guide to the Jewish faith and Jewish festivals. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/religious_studies.shtml
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| | UNC Department of Religious Studies |
| | The UNC Department of Religious Studies is dedicated to the study of the world's religions as historical and cultural phenomena. | | | In large introductory classes and small upper-level seminars, students and faculty explore religious traditions and their history, sacred texts, belief systems, rituals, and institutions. | | | The Department of Religious Studies is one of the oldest departments of its kind at an American public university. |
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http://www.unc.edu/depts/rel_stud
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| | Religious Studies |
| | The Religious Background of the 1979 RevolutionIn Iran | | | The Trial of Mulla `Ali Bastami: A Combined Sunni-Shi`i Fatwa against the Bab | | | The Baha'i Faith 1957-1988: A Survey of Contemporary Developments (with Peter Smith) |
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http://www.northill.demon.co.uk/relstud
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| | Department of Religious Studies |
| | The Department of Religious Studies offers a wide range of courses to help students explore religion in its many aspects in societies around the world; become familiar with the diversity of religious expressions; and develop the conceptual tools necessary for understanding how religion shapes the thoughts, lives, and values of its practitioners. | | | Students are simply required to select courses that: (I) introduce them to the range of ways in which religions are studied and understood; and (II) familiarize them with at least two major world religious traditions. | | | The minor in religious studies and the minor in Jewish studies, though narrower in scope, have the same goals. |
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http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/religious_studies
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| | UW Oshkosh - Religious Studies |
| | Religious Studies explores the crucial role that religion plays in the lives of individuals and communities. | | | In addition to helping students intelligently explore questions of meaning and understand the role of religion in the world, Religious Studies has a third objective, promoting a democratic respect for religious difference. | | | A central objective of Religious Studies courses at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is to help students examine human meaning systems in all their complexity and better understand how different religions influence human behavior and shape culture. |
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http://www.uwosh.edu/departments/religious
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| | Religious Studies - Arts & Cultures - University of Newcastle |
| | The Department of Religious Studies has been home to some of the leading scholars in the history and theology of these traditions, most notably Robin Gill, John Hinnells, Dermot Killingley, Bernard Reardon, Christopher Rowland, John Sawyer, Nicholas Sagovsky and Geza Vermes. | | | But this tradition of research and teaching is now coming to a close. | | | Religion has been studied at Newcastle for more than 40 years, with particular interests in Judaism, Christianity and Hinduism, and more recently New Religious Movements. |
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http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/about/rs
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| | Religious Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| | An expert in the Religious Traditions of India and the Sanskrit language, Patricia will enable the Department to offer a full slate of courses in such religions as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, thereby broadening significantly the variety of religious traditions in which it offers instruction. | | | We study the world's religious traditions and religious movements in a non-confessional academic environment. | | | Mary Walsh (Administrative Secretary) for thirty-two years of service to the Religious Studies Department. |
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