The Department of Religion offers a curriculum that explores the variety and depth of religious experiences and expressions. Inseparable from the fabric of liberal arts generally, the Religion Department shares in the task of cultivating a humane literacy that is responsive to the mystery and the meaning of human life. Crosscultural, interdisciplinary, and critical perspectives inform a wide spectrum of courses that study systems of belief and patterns of religious behavior, the history of religious traditions, the function of religion in society, and forms of religious expression such as sacred narrative, scripture, theological, and philosophical reflection.
Religion Courses
- REL 101W - First-Year Writing Seminars in Religion
- REL 125 - Prophecy: Trajectories of Divine Concern
- REL 130 - Introduction to the New Testament
- REL 140 - Sin and Redemption in Christian Thought
- REL 141 - Introduction to Theology
- REL 142 - Autobiography and Religion
- REL 143 - Being Human
- REL 150 - Introduction to Theological Ethics
- REL 155 - Issues in Religion and Science
- REL 170 - The Sacred Quest in Comparative Perspective
- REL 222 - Tragedy and Comedy in Biblical Narrative
- REL 223 - Wisdom Literature
- REL 230 - Jesus and His Interpreters
- REL 231 - The Letters and Thought of the Apostle Paul
- REL 232 - Parables in the Jewish and Christian Traditions
- REL 242 - The Rise of Christianity (= CLA 272)
- REL 244 - Modern Jewish Literature
- REL 245 - Modern Christian Thought
- REL 247 - Food in Religious Perspective
- REL 248 - Christianity and Nature
- REL 250 - Issues in Theological Ethics
- REL 252 - Prophetic Christianity in America
- REL 256 - Religion, Ethics, and Medicine
- REL 257 - Death, Dying, and the Afterlife
- REL 258 - Vocation of Citizen and Soldier
- REL 260 - Religion in America
- REL 261 - African American Religious Traditions
- REL 262 - Imagining American Religion
- REL 263 - English Religion, 1500-1829
- REL 270 - Classical Hinduism
- REL 271 - Classical Buddhism
- REL 272 - Introduction to Islam
- REL 275 - Jewish Religious Life
- REL 280 - Chinese Religions
- REL 282 - Tibetan Religions
- REL 301 - Perspectives in the Study of Religion
- REL 320 - The Genesis Narrative
- REL 321 - The Exodus Tradition
- REL 333 - Revelation and the Apocalyptic Imagination
- REL 335 - The Other Gospels: Lost Literature of Early Christianity
- REL 341 - Religions of the Roman Empire (= CLA 378)
- REL 343 - Modern and Postmodern Theologies
- REL 344 - Modern Critics of Religion
- REL 346 - Modern Jewish Thought
- REL 347 - Christian Latin Writers (= LAT 229/329)
- REL 348 - Theories of Religion
- REL 350 - Reformed Theology and Ethics
- REL 352 - Protestant and Roman Catholic Ethics
- REL 353 - Theological Perspectives on Christian Faith
- REL 354 - Major Figures in Theology and Ethics
- REL 355 - Woman and the Body in the Christian Tradition
- REL 357 - The Bible and Modern Moral Issues
- REL 360 - American Civil Religion
- REL 362 - Religion in Victorian England
- REL 363 - Script and Scripture
- REL 365 - Women in American Religion
- REL 370 - Asian Meditation Texts
- REL 371 - Varieties of Hindu Mysticism
- REL 375 - Women and Gender in the Islamic Tradition
- REL 376 - Islamic Ethics
- REL 382 - Chan/Zen Buddhism
- REL 383 - Devotional Buddhism
- REL 395, 396 - Independent Study
- REL 401 - Senior Colloquium
- REL 410-419 - Seminars in Theory and Methodology
- REL 420-439 - Seminars in Biblical Studies
- REL 428 - Israel's Psalms
- REL 440-459 - Seminars in Theology and Ethics
- REL 460-489 - Seminars in the History of Religious Traditions
- REL 463 - Mormons and Mormonism
- REL 498 - Honors Thesis
