Sentences with phrase «of religious studies»

I am, to use the case closest at hand, a professor of religious studies in a large state university.

You must have had a whole semester of religious study at community college.

The very inclusion of religious studies in a university is optional, often a concession to student interest rather than an expression of a clear consensus of the faculty.

For example, a Catholic school can require a teacher of religious studies to be Catholic.

In the secondary sector, philosophy currently forms a component of religious studies GCSE.

First of all the field of religious studies is to study religion from a historical approach.

The issues discussed were broader than those now debated among practitioners of religious studies, since the early economists did not know that their task was to establish an academic discipline.

This absence should not be surprising, given the change of venue represented by the addition of religious studies departments to secular university curricula.

For most of its long history theology lacked the self - conscious concern with its own identity which has accompanied the emergence of religious studies.

They also live in the academic world of religious studies and comparative religion, which is also a community of sorts and also claims to know at least something of the truth.

By the end of the 1960s, however, the character of religious studies in the universities had begun to change significantly.

I had dreams of getting an MFA in poetry or becoming a professor of religious studies or at least starting a blog.

Of course, professors in departments of religious studies are not discouraged from thinking on all topics.

Grace Williamson, Head of Religious Studies at The Royal Grammar School Worcester, used the Sources of Wisdom workbooks in the summer term.

Dr. Altizer, now director of religious studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, enters into the game with zest.

Students are given opportunities to reflect on the requirements of the Religious Studies GCSE (Christianity Beliefs and Teachings) and think about how they can guide other students to be successful.

Although there are no national statistics available on abortion crimes, a recent study by Brazil's Institute of Religious Studies found that there were 351 police complaints regarding abortion in Rio de Janeiro between 2007 and 2012.

Van A. Harvey is professor emeritus of religious studies at Stanford University and is the author of The Historian and the Believer.

Douglas John Hall is Professor of Christian Theology in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Of course, such negative impact of religious studies on religious faith is mitigated by many other persons in the discipline who entered the field as an extension of their religious calling and whose more positive perspectives are apparent despite pressures not to reveal any explicit religious commitment.

The founders of religious studies whose commitment to science Wiebe lauds were also men of deeply religious purpose.

One reason for the rise may be that it is compulsory for schools to provide some form of religious studies education for students, so some schools and students may decide that they want the time and effort it takes to count towards a GCSE.

@ Joe T. - I support the discipline of Intelligent Design, and yet I would be happy to have other religions taught along side christianity in school (in some sort of religious studies class, mind you.)

Forms of exegesis or biblical interpretation that do not support the homiletic, evangelical, and educational missions of the Church may have their place in the academy, but they are subsets of religious studies, not theology.

Over the past decade, Pentecostalism has become something of an academic darling for historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and scholars of religious studies.

But the worry that the pool of future faculty will be dominated by graduates of religious studies programs whose whole training is outside the fields and institutions of theological study and who would not want to be associated with such schools is misplaced.

(1) The popularity of religious studies has not substantially reshaped the training of theological faculty.

In 1901, Jean Reville, the head of the religious studies section of Paris's École Pratique des Hautes Études, answered Harnack.

Review: The Politics of Religious Studies, by Donald Wiebe, St. Martin's, 332 pp.

Obama attended the Indonesian - language government - run Besuki School for part of 3rd grade and for 4th grade (there was a bit of religious studies on Islam included as elective, but he was what?

She published the results of her study of the papyrus two years later in the Harvard Theological Review, a first - tier, peer - reviewed journal of religious studies.

The resulting global religious revival and the renewed respectability of religious studies have provided new opportunities for scholars of religion.

One might expect at first that Susan Kwilecki of the religious studies department and Loretta S. Wilson of economics at Radford University, Virginia, are up to a Sokal - like prank.

Practitioners of religious studies who flooded sessions of the American Academy of Religion now often employed their own technical language, which served to legitimate the discipline's status as a science.

As the priest in Rudy said, «Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard incontrovertible facts: there is a God, and I'm not Him.»

Though Reza's PhD is in sociology most of his graduate course work at UCSB was in the history of religion in the dept of religious studies.

Catholicism has been forced into the fortress of the Religious Studies classroom but, as Catholic educators, we do our faith no favours by allowing it to be compartmentalised in this way.

I hope that it might help us to arrive at a broader view of the possibilities for New Testament hermeneutic and maybe even help in working out what the discipline of religious studies is.

It may be that as chairman of Afro - American studies and professor of religious studies here at the University of Virginia, and as lecturer in both fields on some 100 U.S. campuses, I have been made more acutely aware than most of my fellow religionists to what must be called a crisis in the black religious spirit.

This is all carried out on an afternoon, forming part of the Religious Studies curriculum.

Through our academic publishing program, we seek to meet the publication needs of the religious studies academic community worldwide with works on the Hebrew Bible and Hebrew language, ancient Near Eastern studies and archaeology, New Testament and Greek language, biblical theology, Judaism, patristics, church history, historical theology, practical theology, and religion and culture.

Doctor of Religious Studies Sacramento Theological Seminary and Bible College, Sacramento, CA — Columbia SC Extension School

According to Shankar Nair, Ph.D., an assistant professor of religious studies at University of Virginia, there are manifold Sufi meditation techniques for quieting the mind and reaching meditative states.