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Western Illinois University
http://www.wiu.edu/users/miphil/
Religious studies is the academic examination of one of the most important phenomena of human culture.
Colby College
The academic study of religion focusing upon the origins and historical development of several of the world's major religious traditions with the goal of enabling students to understand and appreciate religious diversity in the modern world.
Duke University
The Department of Religion is one of the largest Humanities departments at Duke and one of the most prestigious departments of religion in the entire country. The Department offers instruction in all the major religions, notably Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
California State University, Northridge
http://www.csun.edu/religious.studies/
The Religious Studies Department at California State University, Northridge offers a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies. The Department encourages students to draw upon a variety of fields and disciplines for African-American Studies, Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology. A major will be able to interpret religious texts, think both empathetically and critically about conflicting religious claims, acquire knowledge of the history of more than one major religious tradition, apply intercultural methods to religious inquiry and analysis, and articulate a perception of one's role in society, in both career and public service options.
University of Colorado
http://www.colorado.edu/ReligiousStudies/
The Department of Religious Studies offers comprehensive programs leading to the Bachelor of Arts and the Master of Arts degrees in religious studies. The program aims to provide students with a broad knowledge of religion as a dimension of human culture, familiarity with a variety of approaches to the academic student of religion, training in advanced research skills.
College of Wooster
http://www.wooster.edu/religion/
Department of Religious Studies. The study of religion at Wooster explores the broad dimensions of the many forms of human religiosity. Religion asks questions of meaning, purpose, and value. Many of the fundamental debates of our society (abortion, euthanasia, sexuality, political and economic goals and objectives) are debates about fundamental ways of viewing the world and their related systems of value.
University of North Carolina
http://www.unc.edu/depts/rel_stud/index.html
The UNC Department of Religious Studies is dedicated to the study of the world's religions as historical and cultural phenomena. Students and faculty explore religious traditions and their history, sacred texts, belief systems, rituals, and institutions. The UNC Department of Religious Studies is one of the oldest departments of its kind at an American public university. It was ranked third among the nation's undergraduate programs in religious studies, according to the 1993 Gourman Report.
University of Dayton
http://www.udayton.edu/~relstudy/
Department of Religious Studies. Presented from within the Catholic tradition, a major in Religious Studies at UD develops a broad scope of basic areas including biblical studies, moral questions, the teachings and history of Christianity and other religious traditions. There are also courses in the teachings of religion, religion and culture, and pastoral questions.
University of Wales, Lampeter
The Department of Theology, Religious Studies & Islamic Studies, University of Wales, Lampeter, offers a broad range of modules for BA (Hons) degrees. There are also opportunities for postgraduate studies, for M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees.
University of Pennsylvania
The academic study of religion examines how the beliefs and values of contemporary and historical cultures shape and are shaped by societal factors, long-standing traditions, and distinctive forms of literary and artistic expression.
Harvard University
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~csrel/
The Committee on the Study of Religion is a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, comprised of instructors from both F.A.S. members and the Divinity School. Degrees offered include the Ph.D., Th.D., and B.A.
Emory University
Graduate Division of Religion.
Rutgers University
Department of Religion.
Marshall University
Department of Religious Studies. Course information, web resources, faculty info, insights and stories section, departmental journal, description of religious studies, links to articles by faculty, links to course syllabi, message from the Chair.
Providence College - Latin American Studies Program
http://www.providence.edu/las/
Religion in Latin America, an educational resource for religion, society, and politics. This site includes statistics, documents in English and Spanish, information about radical choice, liberation theology, protestantism, indigenous theology.