About Religious Studies
Religious Studies is not only a new discipline; it is new to Georgia State University. The Department of Religious Studies, established in 2005, offers both B.A. and M.A degrees, over fifty different courses, as well as the opportunity for students to explore the interdisciplinary nature of the field by taking additional courses from the Departments of Anthropology, African-American Studies, Art History, History, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology. The focus of the program is the comparative study of religions. Faculty members--holding degrees from institutions such as Harvard, Princeton, Emory, and Santa Barbara-have won some of the most prestigious awards in the country (the Fulbright, the NEH, and both the State of Georgia's and the American Academy of Religion's Awards for Teaching Excellence). They hold specialties in Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and other world religious traditions. Students majoring in Religious Studies at Georgia State have gone on to study at some of the top graduate programs in the world, including Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Chicago, Berkeley, and Princeton.
