The Graduate School Bulletin
Department of Religious Studies
109 Foust Building
(336) 334-5327
No graduate degree program offered in the Department of Religious Studies.
Graduate Faculty
REL Religious Studies Courses
Graduate Faculty
Professors
Marc Bregman, PhD, Jewish studies, Rabbinics, Biblical interpretation (Bernard Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies).
William D. Hart, PhD, Religion, ethics, and politics; critical theory of religion; African-American religious thought (Head of Department).
Derek Krueger, PhD, Religions of late antiquity, history of Christianity, Byzantine studies.
Charles D. Orzech, PhD, History of religions, theory and method, Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, esoteric Buddhism in East Asia.
Eugene F. Rogers, Jr., PhD, Modern and medieval Christian thought, gender studies.
Associate Professors
Gregory P. Grieve, PhD, South Asian religion with an emphasis in Himalayan traditions.
Bennett H. Ramsey, PhD, Western religious thought (ethics, philosophy of religion, theology), religion in the Americas, feminist and African-American religious thought.
Assistant Professors
Elizabeth M. Bucar, PhD, Comparative (Muslim and Christian) religious ethics, Shiism in Iran, gender in the Muslim World, human rights and religion.
Ellen D. Haskell, PhD, Jewish studies, Jewish mysticism, gender studies, Rabbinics, metaphor theory and religious imagery.
REL Religious Studies Courses
503 Topics in Religious Studies (3:3)
Study of the role, nature, and function of certain social forms of religious life, such as intentional community or religious leadership, through cross-cultural comparison or intensive study of one religious tradition.
589 Experimental Course
This number reserved for experimental courses. Refer to the Course Schedule for current offerings.
695 Independent Study (1-3)
Pr. permission of department head and instructor
Directed program of reading, research, and individual instruction.
711 Experimental Course
This number reserved for experimental courses. Refer to the Course Schedule for current offerings.