Religious Studies - McKendree University

Religious Studies from McKendree University is a Campus Bachelor Religious Studies degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The discipline of Religious Studies analyzes the human relationship to what is conceived as ultimate reality or the highest reality. It studies the beliefs, practices, and behaviors that are expressions of this relationship, examining them in their individual and corporate, historical and contemporary forms. Human history displays established patterns of the relationship to ultimate reality in the world???s major religious traditions. Religious studies courses at McKendree explore the world???s religions in all their diversity, while also focusing in a special way on the Christian tradition. The Religious Studies Major introduces students to the major world religions, while also focusing on Christianity, its sacred texts, and Christian theology. Within this framework, students have significant freedom to shape their program of study in the direction of their interest. Students can choose a more general analysis of the world religions or they can make a more intensive study of Christianity with their electives. The Religious Studies Major helps prepare students for seminary studies and/or a career in Christian ministry. It also helps prepare students for academic graduate work in religious studies . The Major stresses the development of skills in critical thinking, and oral and written communication. It involves significant use and analysis of diverse methodological perspectives to understand the phenomenon of religion, and to interpret religious texts. Students can use this degree in any career that values critical thinking and sensitivity to human motivation, and involves encounter with diverse communities of belief in our increasingly global society. View more details on McKendree University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Religious Studies courses.