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- The Department of Religious Studies at Yale provides opportunities for the scholarly study of a number of religious traditions and disciplines. At the undergraduate level, the Department offers a wide array of courses that cover the major religions of the world, with a strong emphasis on their history and their intellectual traditions.
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The Yale Department of Religious Studies, established in its present form in 1963, is one of the leading scholarly communities dedicated to the study of religion. Our faculty research religions from around the world in an effort to understand the role of religions as social movements, textual traditions, sensory cultures, and arbiters of value.
- Graduate Program
Director of Graduate Studies. Linn Tonstad...
- Undergraduate Program
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Eric Greene...
- Calendar
Religious Studies Home; Graduate Program; Undergraduate...
- People
Stephen Davis. Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies and...
- Faculty Bookshelf
In this book, Steven Fraade explores the practice and...
- News
Laura Nasrallah, Buckingham Professor of New Testament...
- Contact
Department of Religious Studies P.O. Box 208287 New Haven,...
- Wayne A. Meeks
After earning his Yale Ph.D., he taught briefly at Dartmouth...
- Graduate Program
Apply Now. Students must enroll in one of the following fields of study: American Religious History, Asian Religions, Early Mediterranean and West Asian Religions, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Islamic Studies, Medieval and Modern Judaism, Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Modernity, Religious Ethics, and Theology.
A Masters of Arts in Religion (MAR) in Hebrew Bible and in Judaism of the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods is offered through the Yale Divinity School. Northwest Semitic Languages, including Hebrew and Aramaic, are taught in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Religious Studies and the Yale Divinity School.
Stephen Davis. Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of History. 320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511. stephen.davis@yale.edu. Phone: 203-535-2848. Website. Maria Doerfler. Associate Professor of Religious Studies.
The Department of Religious Studies at Yale provides opportunities for the scholarly study of a number of religious traditions and disciplines. At the undergraduate level, the Department offers a wide array of courses that cover the major religions of the world, with a strong emphasis on their history and their intellectual traditions.
The Religious Studies department is particularly known for its promotion of scholarly research by undergraduates. Undergraduate majors acquire the linguistic, philosophical, and historical acumen necessary for an in-depth research project during their senior year.
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Topics include models of empire and sovereignty, spheres of temporal and religious authority, the circulation of texts and ideas across regions, linguistic and religious traditions, and vernacular literary and religious cultures.