The semester switch is not the only change to hit Ohio State in the fall. Religious studies, a concentration within the comparative studies major, will become a major of its own Autumn Semester. Hugh ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

This introductory course focuses on the cultural syncretism and the global diversity of Jewish experience. It provides a comparative understanding of Jewish culture from antiquity to the present, ...

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (MTSR) publishes articles, notes, book reviews and letters which explicitly address the problems of methodology and theory in the academic study of religion.

RELIGION and Science — it is a difficult subject, not one that is easy to discuss fully and frankly without arousing angry emotions or bruising intimate and sacred feelings. Yet the task is one which ...

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Ali S. Asani is Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures at Harvard University. After completing his high school education in Kenya, he attended Harvard ...

AN effort is being made to establish in Cambridge a photographic record for use in illustrating the history and comparative study of religions. Any persons, especially those returning from the ...

Be able to define “religion” per se in terms of both theory and practice Have a basic understanding of the nature of religion The Comparative Study of Religion Have a foundational knowledge of the ...

Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of participating in a panel at Harvard University with filmmaker Mustapha Kahn and actress Amy Brenneman. We were celebrating the 40 th Anniversary of the ...