Religion Department

Name of Department/Program:

The Department of History and Classics and Religion

Email Contact for Religion Department and/or Program: quinter@ualberta.ca

Address:

Program Types:
Undergraduate, M.A, Ph.D.

Description:

Religious Studies is the critical study of religious beliefs, practices, texts, institutions, and communities. We ask: What is religion? How has it functioned in societies past and present? How do religious groups answer the enduring questions of human existence? Our approach to these questions is interdisciplinary, non-religious, and often comparative.

The academic study of religions and their place in human civilizations past and present is a matter of vital importance for our world in the 2020s and into the future.

Other Information:

https://www.ualberta.ca/en/history-classics-religion/index.html