Religious Studies
Religious Studies
The academic study of religion equips students with both detailed knowledge and broad theoretical frameworks for understanding the diversity and power of religion in societies, cultures and individual lives. Students acquire skills for engaging constructively and critically with the ongoing influence of religion, an essential, yet often misunderstood, aspect of civilization.
Meet Dr. A.K. Anderson
Dr. A.K. Anderson, professor of religion, recently edited a book titled “Religion and Medicine from the Pre-Axial Age to Modernity: An Introductory Reader.” He teaches courses required for the Medicine and the Liberal Arts concentration at Wofford, seeking to help students approach interactions with the whole person in mind. Anderson’s other areas of academic focus include Dante, religion in China and the ways in which spiritual traditions are impacted by and relate to modernity.
Meet Julia Richardson ’24
Julia Richardson was a religious studies, philosophy and Chinese triple major at Wofford. Richardson followed her fascination for religious traditions to Vietnam during her senior Interim, where she learned about contemporary Buddhist practice. She is currently pursuing a master’s in religious studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, with plans to attain a Ph.D. in Buddhist studies.
Recent Religion graduates are working in the following fields:
Counseling
Education
Government and politics
International business
Law
Library science
Medicine
Ministry
Nonprofit management
Research
Social work
Religion students have completed postgraduate studies at:
Asbury Theological Seminary
College of William and Mary
Duke Divinity School
Emory University
Princeton University
University of Chicago Divinity School
University of Chicago Law School
University of Tennessee College of Law
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University
Wake Forest University
Wesley Theological Seminary
Yale University