Interreligious Studies Minor

The Interreligious Studies minor is a multi-disciplinary minor located within the Religious Studies department that focuses on historical and contemporary encounters between and interactions among distinct religious communities and/or traditions. It provides students the background to analyze the character of interreligious encounter, to think critically about interfaith dialogue, and to function effectively in multi-religious and multi-cultural contexts. Students majoring or minoring in Religious Studies are not eligible for this minor.

Minor Requirements

Required course: 4 sh

REL 3110BEYOND CONFLICT AND TOLERANCE: INTERRELIGIOUS ENCOUNTER AND SOCIAL CHANGE

4 sh

Select two courses from the following: 8 sh

REL 1810BUDDHIST TRADITIONS

4 sh

REL 1820HINDU TRADITIONS

4 sh

REL 1830ISLAMIC TRADITIONS

4 sh

REL 1840CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS

4 sh

REL 1850JEWISH TRADITIONS

4 sh

REL 1860Irreligious and Secular Traditions

4 sh

 

Select 12 sh from the following, with at least 8 sh at the 3000-4000 level

ARH 2100ART HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

4 sh

ARH 2110ART HISTORY OF THE MEDIEVAL AND PREMODERN WORLD

4 sh

ARH 3330JEWISH, CHRISTIAN, & ISLAMIC CULTURES: CONTACT & CONFLICT

4 sh

ENG 3840MIDDLE EASTERN LITERATURE

4 sh

GER 3040GERMANY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

4 sh

GBL 2320ETHIOPIA AND TANZANIA: AN EXPLORATION OF HISTORY, CULTURE AND THE NATURAL WORLD

4 sh

GBL 2860INDIA'S IDENTITIES: RELIGION, CASTE AND GENDER IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH INDIA

4 sh

HST 3390A HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST

4 sh

REL 1000RELIGION IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

4 sh

REL 1120Religion and Power

4 sh

REL 1200Magic

4 sh

REL 1310Jewish Biblical Literature in Context

4 sh

REL 1320Early Christian Literature in Context

4 sh

REL 1410African Gods

4 sh

REL 3120RELIGION GOES GLOBAL: FANATICS, FRAUDS, AND PEACEMAKERS

4 sh

REL 3230Satan and the Supernatural

4 sh

REL 3250THE APOCALYPTIC IMAGINATION, ANCIENT AND MODERN

4 sh

REL 3270MESSIAHS, MARTYRS AND MEMORY

4 sh

REL 3500SILK ROAD: THEN AND NOW

4 sh

REL 3580SITES AND RITES: SACRED SPACE AND RITUAL IN WORLD RELIGIONS

4 sh

REL 3840MODERN JEWISH THOUGHT

4 sh

REL 3850Jewish-Christian Dialogue

4 sh

REL 3910Beyond Jihad: Encounters with Islam

4 sh

REL 3920Religion, Magic, and Science

4 sh

REL 4640War and Judaism, from the Bible to Zionism

4 sh

REL 4650Ghosts, Demons & Ancestors in Asian Religions

4 sh

SPN 3590COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS

4 sh

SPN 4550RELIGION, IDOLATRY AND CONQUEST: FROM MEDIEVAL SPAIN TO THE NEW WORLD

4 sh

IRS 4985INTERNSHIP IN INTERRELIGIOUS STUDIES

1-4 sh

IRS 4999RESEARCH IN INTERRELIGIOUS STUDIES

1-4 sh

GBL 2440SPAIN AND MOROCCO: HISTORICAL & CONTEMPORARY ENCOUNTERS

4 sh

GBL 2060HAWAII: NATION OR STATE? IN SEARCH OF HAWAIIAN IDENTITY

4 sh

GEO 3630Global Migration

4

GEO 3640Middle East: People and Place

4

POL 3660MIDDLE EAST POLITICS

4 sh

REL 3360Religion and War in America

4 sh

REL 3820JEWISH ETHICS

4 sh

Other courses may be submitted for approval by the Department Chair. 

Program Outcomes

Students will analyze the category of religion and the field of interreligious studies, including the histories and theoretical models that inform them.

Students will recognize and appreciate the contours of religious difference both within and between particular traditions.

Students will interact with communities and hear from practitioners, gaining first hand-experience of worship, ritual practice, gender dynamics, the use of sacred texts, political dynamics, and/or interreligious encounters.

Students will recognize and explain the ways in which religious traditions and interreligious encounters are embedded within cultural, political and economic systems.

Students will produce nuanced reflections on ways that religious traditions and religious communities have interacted with other religious traditions and communities.

Students will critique existing models for understanding and facilitating interreligious encounter and offer constructive suggestions for improving these models.

Total Credit Hours: 24

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