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Religion is a major aspect of every human culture. In all civilizations in the world, religion shapes the institutions of law and government, influences family and parenting practices, and resonates in the creative work of writers and artists. A liberal arts education should include attention to human religiosity. Students well prepared in religious studies can better approach post-graduate work in law, medicine, public administration, or education.
The Religion Department offers instruction, from the introductory to the advanced level, in most of the world's major religious traditions: Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, the religions of the ancient Near East, the religions of Africa, and religious life in ancient and modern China, and in North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Almost all of the faculty specialize in a specific religious area and have expertise in the associated languages and history, since a philological and historical grounding is considered essential to a thorough understanding of a religion. Everyone teaching in the Department also believes in the importance of comparing religious traditions and in studying religions in a comparative way. It is the Department's insistence on an undergraduate major that is comparative and interdisciplinary in nature that distinguishes the study of religion at Dartmouth.
Each Fall the Department sponsors a Foreign Study Program at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. This permits students to consider alternate approaches to the study of religion and to use the very different environment of the United Kingdom as a test case for understanding the interaction of religion and culture.
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In the News: |
| Professor Ronald M. Green was a featured speaker at a recent conference at Wake Forest University, "After the Genome: A Language for our Biotechnological Future" |
| Congratulations to Professor Susannah Heschel, who was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, based on her "impressive achievement" in the field of intellectual and cultural history and her "exceptional promise for future accomplishment." Professor Heschel is the second faculty member from the Dartmouth College Department of Religion to earn this honor; Professor Ronald M. Green was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. |
| Professor Ronald M. Green's new book, Ten Virtues of Outstanding Leaders: Leadership and Character (written with Al Gini) was just published by Wiley. Read an excerpt here |
| Read Professor Randall Balmer's and Professor Christopher MacEvitt's views on the papal conclave and new pope in Papal Conclave Takes New Route to the Ancient Ways in the March 12, 2013 Dartmouth Now, and in Francis, A Jesuit, Is the First Pope From Latin America (3-14-13) |
| Professor A. Kevin Reinhart recently delivered the keynote address - What We Don't Know About Ma'ruf: The Emptiness of Quranic Virtue Terms - at a meeting of the Esra International Foundation in Iran |
| Professor Randall Balmer's review of Gary Wills' new book, Why Priests?, appears in the February 15, 2013, issue of The New York Times |
| Professor Randall Balmer wrote a new book, First Freedom: The Fight for Religious Liberty (along with Lee Groberg and Mark Mabry), just released, to accompany PBS' three-part series that will begin on Tuesday night, December 18, 2012, on most public television stations (watch a preview here) |
| Read Professor Randall Balmer's article on What Romney Wouldn't Say in the December 5, 2012, issue of Religion & Politics |
| Professor Ronald M. Green was interviewed by NPR for a December 3, 2012, All Things Considered story, Genome Sequencing for Babies Brings Knowledge and Conflicts. Click link to listen to the story or read the transcript |
| Noted dancers Yesenia Selier and Hunter Houde came from New York City to give an Afro-Cuban Dance Workshop for Professor Elizabeth Pérez' Religion 52 and Religion 17 students. (Here's another picture!) |
| Professor Randall Balmer was featured in Dartmouth Now's Faculty Forum |
| Professor Ronald M. Green was recently interviewed by NPR for an October 5, 2012 Morning Edition story, Scientists Use Stem Cells to Create Eggs in Mice, and for an October 24 All Things Considered report, Geneticists Breach Ethical Taboo by Changing Genes Across Generations. Click links to listen to the stories or read the transcripts |
| Read Professor Randall Balmer's opinion piece on Romney and the Republicans: Outsourcing Religion in the Huffington Post |
| Professor Gil Raz was featured in Dartmouth Now's article highlighting Dartmouth authors |
| Professor Ronald M. Green contributed to a just-aired PBS NOVA program, Cracking the Genetic Code |
| Charles H. Stinson, a specialist in medieval Christian theology and a long-time member of the faculty of the Dartmouth College Department of Religion, died Monday, March 12, at Brookside Nursing Home in White River Junction, VT |
| Hans H. Penner, a leading scholar of comparative religion, died on Saturday, February 25, 2012, at Fletcher Allen Hospital in Burlington. Penner was a member of Dartmouth's Religion Department for 36 years and served from 1980-84 as Dean of Dartmouth's Faculty of Arts and Sciences |
| Congratulations to Professor Christopher MacEvitt, who has just won the Medieval Academy's John Nicholas Brown Prize for 2012 for a first book or monograph on a medieval subject, for his book The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance (See the Dartmouth Now article, 6/27/12) |
| See Professor Susannah Heschel's article in The Jewish Week newspaper, January 10, 2012 (html link) |
| Professor Susannah Heschel interviewed by Svjetlo riječi siječanj 2012 (Croatian Journal in Religion, PDF download link) |
| Assistant Professor Elizabeth Pérez was featured on the Spanish-language Univision channel speaking (in Spanish!) about the Republican Presidential Debate held at Dartmouth on October 11, 2011 |
| "Leading American ethicist Prof Ronald Green disagrees with the view gene-doping will increase fairness in sport" |
| The Religion Department’s Foreign Study Program heads to Gilleleje, Denmark with Professor Ronald Green |
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Annette Gordon-Reed '81, the Religion Department Orr Lecturer May 2010, wins a MacArthur Fellowship |
