On Wednesday afternoon, Russell T. McCutcheon had a Zoom call with the chair of a religious-studies department who wanted to get ahead of what has come to seem like an existential crisis in the field.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — After 21 years of directing the “Catholic Studies” program he founded at the University of St. Thomas, professor Don Briel has decided to retire and pass the torch to the new ...

The thesis represents a challenging and culminating academic experience in a Religious Studies major’s scholarly career at Bates. Each student develops a thesis topic in the first semester of the ...

This video explains the core difference between theology and religious studies. Theology engages questions raised within a faith tradition, often from an insider perspective. Religious studies ...

I spent all my years of education in Catholic schools except kindergarten, where I attended Kenny School in south Minneapolis, and one quarter of my undergraduate studies at the University of ...