About Us

Welcome to the Religious Studies Program, where religious traditions are explored in all of their complexity through comparative, contextual (in specific historical or cultural contexts), and thematic studies.

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Your support enables the Religious Studies Program to enhance the experience for undergraduate students. Gifts can help fund lectures and conferences, student research, distinguished speakers, and other Program priorities. We will greatly appreciate and immediately put into use any gift, no matter the amount. Please consider a donation to the program Current Use Gift Fund.

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Perhaps the biggest thing I gained from Religious Studies was a personable yet critical way of looking at all the people I meet in my life -- both as individuals and as groups.

— Andrew DeJohn '01