Bachelor of Arts - Religious Studies

Religious Studies explores the roles religion plays in contemporary society and around the world.

Discovering Religious Studies:

Religious Studies starts with a thematic introduction to some of the perennial questions that continue to arise in human existence.

There are choices between courses that emphasize significant question perspectives, particularly social issues and projects, specific disciplinary approaches, and courses that examine in more significant detail specifics of particular religious traditions, including texts, rituals, ideas, and political and historical overviews. 

Religious Studies is a multi-disciplinary study.

Students are exposed to various approaches and serious reflections on the nature of methodology and scholarly inquiry.

St. Thomas University believes an adequate understanding of religion is an asset in recognizing and responding appropriately to the many complex issues that face contemporary society.

A sufficiently critical sensibility ensures thoughtful responses, rather than emotive and unthinking reactions.

Critical And Transferable Skills:

Religious Studies require recognizing and identifying the particular disciplines utilized in any given study.

Being familiar with the social sciences, literature, philosophy, history, and linguistic/language studies, aspects of the physical and natural sciences become part of the student’s worldview.

Critical skills include self-reflection, inasmuch as everyone has a vested interest in being able to make reasonable and coherent choices in life.

The dynamic nature of critical inquiry indicates the life-long project of learning and developing for which the study of religion equips students.

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• You want to examine how the different aspects of religion shape politics, the arts, social movements, sexualities, and the environment
• You want to learn more about world religions and their similarities and differences