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Our department provides an international outlook, featuring courses on both major world religions and regional spiritual practices globally. We examine religious traditions through multiple lenses from the humanities and social sciences. Our faculty includes specialists in anthropology, ethics, history, literary criticism, philosophy, language studies, theology, and creative writing. As the most extensive religious studies department in public higher education, we champion the vital idea that engaging with diverse societies demands comprehension of religious perspectives. Our professors bring remarkable diversity in their training across languages, traditions, and disciplines. We're equally distinctive in our methodological variety, offering instruction through historical, linguistic, anthropological, theological, philosophical, comparative, and literary frameworks.