Chair: Kirsten Wesselhoeft;

Professors: Marc Michael Epstein, Jonathon S. Kahn^ab, Michael Walsh^a, Christopher White;

Associate Professor: Kirsten Wesselhoeft;

Lecturer: Agnes Veto;

Visiting Assistant Professor: Nell Hawley;

Adjunct Assistant Professor: Klaus Yoder;

^a  On leave 2025/26, first semester

^b  On leave 2025/26, second semester

^ab  On leave 2025/26

Programs

• Religion Major

• Religion Correlate Sequence

Courses

• RELI 100 - Introduction to American Studies
• RELI 101 - JudaismS: An Introduction
• RELI 102 - Religion, Media & American Popular Culture
• RELI 107 - This Buddhist Life
• RELI 108 - Climate Change and the Apocalypse
• RELI 110 - Great Understanding is Broad & Unhurried: Sage Voices from China’s Past and Rethinking the Good Life
• RELI 111 - Christian Theology and the Body
• RELI 113 - Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding
• RELI 140 - China Reimagined
• RELI 147 - Trances, Visions, Meditative States and Altered States of Consciousness
• RELI 150 - Jews, Christians, and Muslims
• RELI 152 - Buddhists, Daoists, and Confucians
• RELI 154 - Jesus: A Radical Life
• RELI 180 - Yoga: A Twisted History

• RELI 200 - Regarding Religion
• RELI 207 - Christian Ethics and Modern Society
• RELI 208 - Religion, Revolution, and Reaction
• RELI 209 - The Devil You Know: Personifying Evil in the West
• RELI 211 - Islam in Europe and the Americas
• RELI 222 - Women, Gender, & Sexuality in Islamic Spaces
• RELI 230 - Jewish Law in Action
• RELI 233 - The Buddha in the World
• RELI 241 - The Land of Israel Before the State of Israel
• RELI 242 - From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism
• RELI 249 - Unlocking the Bible
• RELI 250 - Across Religious Boundaries: Understanding Differences
• RELI 254 - A Hundred Gospels and the Confusing, Conflicted Life of Jesus
• RELI 255 - Western Mystical Traditions
• RELI 256 - Theology of the Prison
• RELI 264 - Controversies in Science, Technology & Religion
• RELI 270 - Research on Religion and Pop Culture
• RELI 280 - Gender and Genre in Hindu Literature
• RELI 290 - Community-Engaged Learning
• RELI 298 - Independent Work

• RELI 300 - Senior Seminar
• RELI 301 - Senior Thesis
• RELI 315 - Jews, Jewish Identity and the Arts
• RELI 330 - Religion, Critical Theory and Politics
• RELI 333 - The Question of Palestine and Israel: A Dialogical Approach
• RELI 345 - Violent Frontiers: Colonialism and Religion in the Nineteenth Century
• RELI 350 - Comparative Studies in Religion
• RELI 355 - The Politics of Sacred Space
• RELI 360 - Religion, Sex, and the Modern State
• RELI 382 - Radical Religion on the Right and the Left
• RELI 385 - American Gurus
• RELI 399 - Senior Independent Work