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Religious Studies - Religious Studies Department

Religious Studies department

The Religious Studies Department offers students the opportunity to study religion using a variety of methodologies and provides a cross-cultural, inter-disciplinary, and comparative investigation into a variety of religious beliefs and practices.

Religious Studies Department

 

Kenna Hall
(The third floor of Kenna Hall is home to the Religious Studies Department.)

On this site you will find information about the mission of our department and the mission of the university, about the courses and university programs in the Religious Studies Department, information about careers and graduate school in the field of religious studies, tools for our majors and minors, background on our faculty and staff, religion resources for all students and alumni, links to the department's Local Religion Project, and updates on departmental events and news.


The Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries offers master's degrees in Catechetics, Pastoral Liturgy, Catholic Education, Spirituality, and Liturgical Music.  The Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries has an online application.

The Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, located in Berkeley at the Graduate Theological Union, works closely with the Department of Religious Studies in the coordination of academic programs, and maintains an office in Kenna Hall. For more information about JST-SCU, please see www.scu.edu/jst.

 
 
 
 

News

Akiba Lerner and Kristin Heyer join the Religious Studies faculty

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The Religious Studies Department is proud to have Kristin Heyer and Akiba Lerner join the faculty at Santa Clara. Professor Heyer's specialty is theological ethics, and she earned a Ph.D. from Boston College. Professor Lerner joins Santa Clara as a Jewish Studies scholar who earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2007.

To read their profiles, click here.

 

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