<p>I am seeking your advice on the best Religion programs in the country. I am not talking about a "faith based" program leading to divinity school. I am referring to the academic study of religion and comparative religions.</p>
<p>Thanks so much.</p>
<p>Yale and Harvard Divinity school!</p>
<p>connecticut college has a phenomenal religious studies department, with three of the most imminent comparative religion professors in the country, including one who has been named the top professor in the state (beating out the likes of yale, wesleyan, uconn, trinity)</p>
<p>Bob Jones University.</p>
<p>Bob Jones? Hmmmm...</p>
<p>Maybe I should explain further. The program of study should serve to promote understanding through a scholarly approach to the topic, not limit understanding through parochial, exclusionary views.</p>
<p>Or am I just missing your satire?</p>
<p>Pavel was making a joke i think.</p>
<p>No, no. I was serious. At Bob Jones University they practice what they preach and you are the subject. What better environment to learn in than with evangelist christians that will try to instill the fear of God Almighty within you? The 9 PM lockdowns are pretty cool, too. God forbid you are caught doing anything other than reading the Bible past your curfew.</p>
<p>OK, OK I got it.</p>
<p>ROFL...your comment made me to look up BJU and their policies.</p>
<p>Ok, I must say straight out that I am a Christian and was pretty much raised by evangelical parents. Even my parents think BJU is strange. For example: no Contemporary Christian music allowed. No rock music and new age and all that jazz I can sort of understand (outdated...but understand). But outlawing Christian music that has rock-based principles is absurd in my opinion.</p>
<p>On a more serious note relating to the thread...</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh has a SOLID top 5 philosophy department which is a good thing to look into for comparative religion. I would look into Pitt if you would like to get a philosophy degree plus a religious studies certificate.</p>
<p>Another great divinity school is Duke Divinity. Duke Divinity is primarily for preparation for preaching, however, there is also a religion department that offers comparative religion graduate degrees.</p>
<p>Edit: Pitt also has a Religious Studies major...so lots of options there</p>
<p>UCSB has a great program, in the midst of the bachannalia (top party school).</p>
<p>Bachannalia? That sounds like a disease.</p>
<p>three of the most imminent comparative religion professors in the country</p>
<p>As opposed to "most transcendent?"</p>
<p>....you meant "eminent" :-)</p>
<p>And WHO voted for "top professor in the state?"</p>
<p>oops sorry, brain fart on the spelling :)</p>
<p>"The Connecticut Professor of the Year is voted by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Professor of the Year award rewards outstanding professors for their dedication to teaching, commitment to students and innovative instructional methods. It is the only national program to recognize college and university professors for their teaching skills. The award has been given since 1981"</p>
<p>University of dayton has a good religious studies program i think</p>
<p>Gourman Report Undergrad
in order:
Indiana U Bloomington
UVA
UNC Chapel Hill
Princeton
Yale
Duke
Southern Methodist
Dartmouth
UC Santa Barbara
Syracuse
U Iowa
Vanderbilt
Northwestern
Arizona St
U Penn
Stanford
Temple
U Colorado Boulder
Harvard
Brown
Oberlin</p>
<p>Wisconsin, especially in Judaism and Middle Eastern</p>
<p>Duke Divinity is real good.</p>
<p>i second dayton</p>