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The Wayne State
Religious Studies Program, housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
at present offers an undergraduate Religious
Studies Minor
and and serves as an intercollegiate, interdepartmental, and interdisciplinary
faculty body to sponsor visiting lectures and academic
conferences
on Religious Studies. Its Director works with a Faculty
Steering Committee and group of faculty affiliated with the Program
to develop curricular offerings and plan other Program activities. For additional information please contact: Dr.
Ken Jackson
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Religion
has grown in importance in recent years as a topic of academic as well
as public interest. Religious studies as an interdisciplinary academic
activity is well established at the majority of colleges and universities
across the United States-both sectarian and non-sectarian, private and
public. It is the academic, analytic investigation of the world's religions,
of religious history, and of the place of religion in world cultures and
societies from the ancients to the present. Faculty involved in religious
studies programs are drawn from a wide range of traditional academic disciplines-for
example, anthropology, history, philosophy, classics, Near Eastern Studies,
Asian Studies, literature, art history, political science, and sociology.
Religious studies respects the beliefs and backgrounds of the students
who pursue courses in this area, but it also approaches its objects of
study in a thoroughly scholarly manner. At least in its public university
settings, it avoids proselytizing and tries to maintain both intellectual
openness and critical rigor.
