Programs Offered:
Master
of Arts in Religious Studies; Certificate in Religious Studies
Director of the Graduate Program:
Jawid Mojaddedi, 70 Lipman Drive, Douglass
Campus (848-932-6821)
Members of the Graduate Faculty:
Debra S. Ballentine, Assistant Professor of
Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Brown
Hebrew Bible; ancient Israelite history and
religion; ancient west Asian literature; Hebrew and northwest Semitic
languages; Second Temple Judaism; myth-making in the ancient world
Edwin F. Bryant, Professor of Religion, SAS;
Ph.D., Columbia
Religions and philosophies of India
Tao Jiang, Associate Professor of Religion,
SAS; Ph.D., Temple
Mahayana Buddhist philosophy; classical
Chinese philosophy; comparative philosophy
James T. Johnson, Professor of Religion, SAS;
Ph.D., Princeton
Religious ethics; religion and society; just
war theory
James W. Jones, Professor of Religion, SAS;
Ph.D., Brown; Psy.D, Rutgers
Psychology of religion
Tia M. Kolbaba, Associate Professor of
Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Toronto
Early Christianity; Byzantine studies
D. Christian Lammerts, Assistant Professor of
Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Literary, social, and intellectual histories
of Buddhism in Southeast Asia; Pali and vernacular Buddhist literature in
Southeast Asia; Southeast Asian religions; Buddhist legal cultures; manuscript
studies; religion and law
Jawid Mojaddedi, Associate Professor of
Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Manchester
Islamic studies
Emma J. Wasserman, Assistant Professor of
Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
New Testament; religions of the Greco-Roman
world; Second Temple Judaism
Joseph W. Williams, Assistant Professor of
Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Florida State
American religious history; the
Pentecostal-Charismatic tradition; religion and modernization; religion and
healing
