Religious Studies

www.smu.edu/religiousstudies

Professor Jill DeTemple, Department Chair

Professors: William Barnard, Mark Chancey, Jill DeTemple, Johan Elverskog, Serge Frolov
Associate Professors: John Lamoreaux (Director of Undergraduate Studies), Steven Lindquist

Departmental Distinction

A student majoring in religious studies with a minimum overall GPA of 3.000 and a 3.500 GPA in the major by the middle of the junior year may apply for the degree with departmental distinction. Candidates for distinction must enroll in a directed research tutorial in the fall term of their senior year followed by an independent studies course in the spring term for which they will write a senior thesis. Only the directed research tutorial may be used to fulfill the 30-term-hour requirement for the major.

Programs

• Religious Studies, B.A.

• Religious Studies Minor

Courses

• RELI 1300 - Special Topics Abroad: Religious Studies
• RELI 1301 - Religious Literacy
• RELI 1303 - Introduction to Asian Religions
• RELI 1304 - Introduction to Western Religions
• RELI 1305 - Introduction to Primal Religions
• RELI 1311 - Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible
• RELI 2300 - Special Topics Abroad: Religious Studies
• RELI 3300 - Special Topics Abroad: Religious Studies
• RELI 3302 - Problems in the Philosophy of Religion
• RELI 3304 - Christian Theology
• RELI 3306 - Hinduism
• RELI 3307 - Buddhism
• RELI 3308 - Christian Ethics and Moral Issues
• RELI 3309 - Bioethics From a Christian Perspective
• RELI 3310 - The Social-Scientific Study of Religion
• RELI 3315 - Religion in Politics
• RELI 3316 - Religion and Science
• RELI 3318 - The Hero in the Bible and the Ancient Near East
• RELI 3319 - Old Testament
• RELI 3320 - Classical Judaism
• RELI 3321 - Religion and the Holocaust
• RELI 3324 - American Judaism
• RELI 3326 - New Testament
• RELI 3329 - Islam
• RELI 3330 - History of Christianity
• RELI 3331 - Renewal: Roman Catholicism
• RELI 3347 - Dallas’ Houses of Worship: Staging the Sacred in a 21st Century American City
• RELI 3350 - History of Biblical Interpretation
• RELI 3352 - Love and Death
• RELI 3353 - Identity and the Sacred in the Southwest
• RELI 3360 - The History of Judaism
• RELI 3362 - Islam and the West
• RELI 3365 - Understanding Self: East and West
• RELI 3366 - Magic, Myth and Religion Across Cultures
• RELI 3368 - Wholeness and Holiness: Religion and Healing Across Cultures
• RELI 3369 - Theology and Economics: God, Faith, and Money
• RELI 3371 - The World of the New Testament
• RELI 3374 - Female and Male in Religion and Culture
• RELI 3375 - The Feminine Divine
• RELI 3377 - The Cultural History of Tibet
• RELI 3378 - Religions of China
• RELI 3379 - Plants of the Gods: Religion and Psychedelics
• RELI 3380 - Women and Religion in America
• RELI 3381 - Religion, Gender, and Economic Development
• RELI 3382 - Mysticism
• RELI 3383 - Reel Judaism: Cinematic Representations of Jewish Life
• RELI 3384 - Hinduism and Colonial Encounters
• RELI 3386 - Myths, Epics, and Tales From India
• RELI 3389 - Living From the Heart (Of It All): An Exploration of Mystical/Spiritual Ethics
• RELI 3390 - A Persistent Prejudice: Anti-Semitism in Western Civilization
• RELI 3391 - Waking Up: The Philosophy of Yoga and the Practice of Meditation
• RELI 4198 - Independent Study
• RELI 4298 - Independent Study
• RELI 4300 - Special Topics Abroad: Religious Studies
• RELI 4352 - Jesus and the Gospels
• RELI 4354 - Prophets of the Old Testament
• RELI 4356 - The Bible and Ethics
• RELI 4371 - The Life and Letters of Paul
• RELI 4385 - Internship in Religious Studies
• RELI 4388 - Special Topics in Religious Studies
• RELI 4389 - Special Topics in Religious Studies
• RELI 4396 - Directed Reading and Research
• RELI 4397 - Directed Reading and Research
• RELI 4398 - Independent Study
• RELI 4498 - Independent Study