2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Religious Studies
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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 end of the first semester 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.
ProgramsMajor(s)Minor(s)CoursesReligious Studies
- 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 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 3319 - Old Testament
- RELI 3321 - Religion and the Holocaust
- RELI 3326 - New Testament
- RELI 3329 - Islam
- RELI 3330 - History of Christianity
- RELI 3331 - Renewal: Roman Catholicism
- RELI 3337 - Christianity and American Public Life
- RELI 3347 - Dallas’ Houses of Worship: Staging the Sacred in a 21st Century American City
- 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 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 3381 - Religion, Gender, and Economic Development
- RELI 3382 - Mysticism
- RELI 3383 - Reel Judaism: Cinematic Representations of Jewish Life
- 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 3392 - World Films, World Religions
- RELI 4198 - Independent Study
- RELI 4298 - Independent Study
- RELI 4300 - Special Topics Abroad: Religious Studies
- RELI 4352 - Jesus and the Gospels
- RELI 4371 - The Life and Letters of Paul
- RELI 4385 - Internship in Religious Studies
- RELI 4388 - Special Topics in Religious Studies
- RELI 4396 - Directed Reading and Research
- RELI 4398 - Independent Study
- RELI 4498 - Independent Study
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