Phd programs in religious studies

Other relevant languages, such as Greek, Latin, Chinese, and Japanese, are offered by other departments. Our language programs provide critical training for graduate students pursuing textual or ethnographic research in particular cultural areas and religious traditions.

At the same time, we provide training in strategic languages for those interested in enriching their professional careers in such fields as international business, NGO and policy work, or government service. Our graduate program trains students to deploy a range of disciplinary approaches in their study of religious traditions, drawing on philological, philosophical, historical, anthropological, sociological, psychological, and literary theories and methods as appropriate to their research.

Nigro, S. Emeritus , M. Rindge , L. Schearing , J. Sheveland , C. Siejk Emerita , C. Skok Emeritus , B. Tyrrell, S. Emeritus Associate Professors: E. Clark , S. Dunn , E. Goldstein , R. Hauck , S. Kuder, S. Mudd , A. Wendlinder Assistant Professors: G. Chien , M. McCabe , R. Siebeking , K. Vander Schel Senior Lecturer: P. Baraza Lecturers: J.

Nguyen, S. Starbuck , Q. Tran, S. The Department of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University offers the Master of Arts in Theology and Leadership degree to meet the needs of persons seeking greater understanding and practical knowledge of theology and leadership. This program is designed as a terminal degree. Students enter the program as members of a cohort and progress through the program together.

Students gather on campus during the summer for two residency experiences. Courses usually required for a degree can be waived by a Graduate Program Director when these areas have been previously studied in depth. This program provides graduate theological education and leadership formation for teaching, consulting, research, and development of theological resources for ministry, adult education programs, and other services to the church and the wider civic community.

Barbara R. Ambros ; Carl W. Ernst ; Brandon Bayne Religion and Culture Religion and Culture focuses on the critical study of culture with specific attention to the position of religion within modernity.

The field explores a variety of philosophical and cultural themes arising from modern discourses on religion, including academic discourses. The theoretical basis of Religion and Culture is informed not only by the Western philosophical tradition but also by a broader range of intellectual traditions, incorporating the perspectives of ethnography, critical theory, and contemporary cultural criticism.

All students in Religion and Culture are expected to become well-grounded in modern Western intellectual and cultural history since the seventeenth century, including the major traditions of modern scholarly engagement with religion as well as the critical reactions to these traditions.

Building on this foundation, each student designs and carries out focused study in a specific discursive tradition or a particular empirical moment of cultural practice. Students specialize in such areas as the ethnographic study of religion, religion in American law and politics, Jewish studies, religion and gender, and modern Western religious thought. Andrea Dara Cooper ; Randall G. Boon ; Lauren G. Special features of the program at UNC include its close affiliations with related disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and the freedom it allows in the selection of sources and methods for the study of American religion.

Opportunities for the study of American religion here and at other institutions in central North Carolina are particularly strong. There is a large and well-developed program in American religious history at nearby Duke University. Yaakov S. Juliane Hammer. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has prepared a guide to the advising process that we recommend admitted students review.

Students interested in YDS should refer to this page.