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The Department of Religion offers a program of study of the world's major religious traditions. The program introduces students to the nature and expression of religiousness and challenges students to think critically about rituals, practices and theories of religion.
Making reflective use of the full variety of liberal arts methods, the study of religion is necessarily interdisciplinary: it engages related issues in philosophy, ethics, society, spirituality, science, gender, sexuality, arts, and politics.
The department offers a variety of courses regarding diverse African, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, and Native American traditions and scriptures.
Recognizing the multiple ways in which religion is embedded in human history and cultures, the department also offers focused courses on issues of historic and contemporary importance, such as the environment, women, genocide, health and healing, and the relations among global peoples of faith.
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