Programs Offered:
Master
of Arts in Religion; Certificate in Religious Studies
Director of the Graduate Program:
Professor Joseph Williams, 70 Lipman Drive, Douglass
Campus (848-932-9640)
Website:
http://religion.rutgers.edu/graduate/program-information
Members of the Graduate Faculty:
Debra S. Ballentine, Assistant Professor of
Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Brown
Hebrew Bible; ancient Israelite histoy 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 IndiaDiane Shane Fruchtman, Assistant Professor of Religion, SAS;
Ph.D., Indiana
Western Christian thought from Augustine to the
Reformation; history of Christianity; martyrdom and sainthood; gender; identity
politics; rhetoric and representation; violence; community formation
Tao Jiang, Associate Professor of Religion,
SAS; Ph.D., Temple
Mahayana Buddhist philosophy; classical
Chinese philosophy; comparative philosophy
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, Professor of
Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Manchester
Mystical Islam; Islamic thought in the premodern period
Sandra
Russell-Jones, Lecturer, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Women in Islam; Islamic law; Qur'an exegesis; Shi`i Islam
Hilit
Surowitz-Israel, Teaching Instructor, SAS; Ph.D., Florida
Religion in the Americas; Caribbean Religions; Sephardic Jewish history; Atlantic history; diaspora theory
Emma J. Wasserman, Associate Professor of
Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
New Testament; religions of the Greco-Roman
world; Second Temple Judaism
Joseph W. Williams, Associate Professor of
Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Florida State
American religious history; the
Pentecostal-Charismatic tradition; religion and
healing
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