World Religions
Introduction & Overview
Understanding religion demands a worldwide perspective which is obtained by studying religion as a factor that shapes human culture, history, politics, and economics. Because religions deal with the most basic questions regarding life, love and death, courses in World Religions may also provide students with insights into their own personalities, and open ways of communication between people from different traditions.
Students who complete a major or minor in World Religions enter careers in medicine, law, business, social work, education, and all other professions. Some also go on to become clergy, teach religion or serve in social agencies run by religious organizations and other non-profits.
Major
BA in World Religions
Minor
World Religions
Program Director
James Edwards Jones, james.jones@mville.edu
Faculty
Peter Gardella — Survey of World Religions; Christianity; religion in the United States; psychology of religion; Bible;religion and sexuality
James Edwards Jones — Islam; African-American religions; comparative religion, socio-cultural theory
Adjunct Faculty
Christine Bonarrigo — Holocaust Literature and Film
Norton D. Shargel — Judaism, Hebrew, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Wilfred Leonard Tyrrell, SA — Catholicism; Ethics; Buddhism and Indian religious traditions