Sample Areas of Specialization with Examples of Applicable Courses

Approaches to the Study of Religion

• ANS 394/ ANT 391/ RS 383: Methods in the Study of Religion [Brereton]
• ANT 391/ MES 381: Culture, History, and Power [Ali]
• CC 383: Religion and Social Context [White]
• HIS 397L/ RS 383: Religion Between History and Theory [Frazier]
• MES 381/ RS 383: Islamic Studies: Theory, Method, Historiography [Aghaie]
• PSY 394S: Scientific, Magical and Religious Explanation [Woolley]
• SOC 396R/ RS 383: Research Seminar: Social Science Studies of Religion [Ellison]
• SOC 396R: Sociology of Religion [Regnerus]

 Religion in the Americas

• AMS 390/ HIS 392/ RS 383: Psychology and Religion in Modern American Culture [Abzug]
• ARH 381/ LAS 381: Memory and Spirituality in Latina Art [Malagamba]
• ENG 395M: American Women's Writings to 1830 [Brooks]
• HIS 388K: Islamic Historiography: Old World and New [Spellberg]
• SOC 389K: Religion, Health, and Mortality [Ellison]
• ANT 384M/ WGS 393/ RS 383: The Inquisition: Ethnicity and Gender [Wade]
• ANT 384M/ LAS 391: Spanish Missions [Wade]
• ARH 390: Iconography in Ancient Andean Culture [Bourget]
• ARH 390: Semiology of Ancient Systems of Representation in the Americas [Bourget]
• LAS 386/ HIS 386L: Religion and Society in Latin America [Burnett]

Religious Monuments and Sacred Places

• ANS 384: Pilgrimage Traditions of South Asia and the Middle East [Hyder]
• ANT 384M/ LAS 391: Spanish Missions [Wade]
• ARH 382: Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments [Davies]
• ARH 382: Narrative Structure in Roman Art [Clarke]
• ARH 392: Pilgrimage and Art in India [Leoshko]
• CC 383: Religion and Society in Ancient Ostia [White]
• HIS 397L: Saints, Miracles, and Sacred Spaces [Newman]

Religion and Politics

• ANS 384: History of Law in India [Olivelle]
• GOV 390L: Politics of the Middle East and North Africa [Henry]
• HIS 382N/ ANS 391/ MES 381: Women in Islamic Societies [Minault]
• MES 381/ HIS 388K/ MEL 395: Islamic Revolution of Iran 1978-1990 [Aghaie]
• MES 381/ MEL 395: Israel's Political Culture [Zilkha]
• SOC 396L/ MES 381/ WS 393: Gender and Development [Charrad]
• SOC 396R/ RS 383: Religion and Global Change [Woodberry]

Religion, Women, and Gender

• ANT 384M/ WGS 393/ RS 383: The Inquisition: Ethnicity and Gender [Wade]
• ANS 384: Body in Indian Medicine/Myth [Selby]
• ARH 381/ LAS 381: Memory and Spirituality in Latina Art [Malagamba]
• ARH 382: Sexuality and Gender in Ancient Visual Culture [Clarke]
• ENG 395M: American Women's Writings to 1830 [Brooks]
• HIS 382N/ MES 381/ ANS 391: Women in Islamic Societies [Minault]
• MES 381/ RS 383: Women in Scripture [Shirazi]
• MES 381/ MEL 395/ ANT 391/ WGS 393/ ANS 384: Gender, Clothing, Identity in Muslim Society [Shirazi]
• MUS 385J/ WGS 393: Women and Music in Early Modern Italy [Dell'Antonio]
• SOC 396L/ MES 381/ WS 393: Gender and Development [Charrad]
• URD 384: Female Voices in Urdu Literature [Hyder]

Other Specializations could include:

• Religions of Medieval Europe
• Religion and Literature
• Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
• Religions of the Ancient World
• Religion in the Early Modern World
• Religion in South Asia