Best undergraduate program for Religious Studies???

paying3tuitions
Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:51:41 +0000

My D, about to graduate from Oberlin College with a major in Religion, found it an excellent department, with good balances among all the world’s major religions. She is doing a second major so it’s evidently possible to manage it.

She tells me there are two strands within the department: Philosophy/theology of religion and Culture/Practices of religions. She has interest in the latter.

Read their religion department’s website for the history of that department, because they helped define the academic study of religion away from a specific faith and more across-the-faiths.

A second major there in any Social Science would be productive. I don’t know much about those departments.

It’s a fascinating field. I notice that Harvard has just decided to add Religion (calling it “Culture and Belief” or something along those lines) to its core curriculum for all students.

Best wishes. I hope you enjoy hearing home talk about the belief systems of African tribes, the differences among the writers of the Gospels, Intro toTalmud, Confuscianism; Mysticism and Buddhism; and now that she’s gotten through all that, she’s taking a course in the Ethics of Islam and a private reading in Persian.