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For nearly 50 years, the Department for the Study of Religion (DSR) has fostered scholarly excellence and innovation among faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the humanities and social sciences at U of T’s three campuses. Our location in Toronto, one of the most religiously diverse cities in the world, is an important resource and ...
The Department for the Study of Religion is a vibrant site of research and teaching that includes diverse theoretical and methodological approaches spanning many religious and spiritual traditions. Our researchers are active across an amazing range of areas: ancient papyrus fragments, medieval manuscripts, Indigenous creation narratives; the ...
The study of religion aims to understand religious thought and practices as aspects of the culture and society that produced them. It offers an opportunity to explore beliefs and ideas, philosophies and mythologies, rituals and symbols, etc., that shape the cultures and civilizations of the world both in historical perspective and as contemporary phenomena.
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The department conceives the academic study of religion in interdisciplinary terms and embraces humanistic, historical, and social scientific approaches and methods. Programs of study are constructed individually to fit the specific needs and interests of each student. As a guideline for areas of strength in the department, the department is ...
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It includes the study of sacred texts, philosophies, theologies, rituals, sacred images and spaces, and the broad cultural significance of the religious in relation to other aspects of culture. Such multi-cultural and cross-cultural studies began in the nineteenth century and have employed diverse methodologies and theories about how best to study religions.
