Bachelor of Arts - Religious Studies

Students will examine the perennial questions and answers posed by people around the world and throughout history. They will engage these questions through scriptures that have changed and continue to guide the course of human history, including the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Qur’an, the Ramayana, the Bhagavad Gita, the Daodejing. Students will relate them to religious practices including rituals such as baptism, pilgrimage, worship, yoga, burial, cremation, and almsgiving. They will approach the study of religion through comparison and consider how to answer these questions for themselves.

Students will study the debates and dynamics of global religious traditions in their social and historical contexts, including their formative myths, sacred texts, spiritual practices, and rituals.

Students will build their curriculum based on themes like gender, justice, and morality in expert-led courses about Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Jain, Sikh, Christian, and Daoist traditions.