The Department of Comparative Religion equips students for work and leadership in a culturally diverse world. We build students' religious literacy—their familiarity with religious traditions that may ...

Comparative Religious Studies examines patterns of belief, ritual and institutional life across diverse faiths, seeking both universal structures and local particularities. By juxtaposing creation ...

Shannon Smith holds graduate degrees in Religious Studies and Library and Information Science and is an alumnus of the University of South Carolina’s Department of Religious Studies. Her areas of ...

The School of Humanities, in collaboration with the departments of Transnational Asian Studies and Religion, is set to host Rice’s first-ever Bhagwaan Mahavir Lecture in Jain Studies Feb. 3. Made ...

Comparative ethnography in religious ethics integrates detailed fieldwork with cross-cultural analysis to investigate how moral values are constructed, practised and negotiated within diverse faith ...

Students accepted into this specialization will acquire basic comparative knowledge of philosophy, politics, and society in western or non-western religions across time, and specialize in an area of ...