American religious history

Professor_X
Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:29:00 +0000

boxes,

Religious Studies/Religion/Comparative Religion/History of Religions does NOT involve theology. We employ History of Religions and/or socio-historical methodologies.

And contemporary Americanists are everywhere. Send me a private message, or post here, indicating your intended subfield, and I will help you to identify many of the top programs in that specific area for you.

Right now, not knowing anything about your subfield, I can tell you that for a PhD, Princeton is great in contemporary American religions, but so are Northwestern, Syracuse, Columbia, University of California at Santa Barbara, Florida State U, and Notre Dame.

If you are considering terminal MA programs, either as your final degree or as a stepping stone to PhD programs (especially since on the face of it, given your confusion between Religious Studies and Theology, you do not appear to have a background in Religious Studies) then Miami (Ohio) and U Missouri Columbia as well as Colorado come immediately to mind. All MA programs in Religion are PhD feeder programs, and all provide the requisite background in method and theory in the study of religion.

Modestly, I hope, I refer you to a previous thread in this forum in which I answered a query about method and theory in the field.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=377357

I’ll look for further info from you.

Best wishes,
Professor X