Why study religion?
Why study religion at Carthage?
Why study religion?
Religious studies opens the door to many professions including:
| | Christian educator | | theologian | | church planter |
| | counselor | |
chaplain |
| military chaplain |
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Religious studies as a second major or as a minor makes better professionals such as:
| lawyer | | teacher | | politician | | business person |
| | artist | | psychologist | | actor | | chaplain |
| | social worker | | physician | | historian | | scientist |
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There are more than five billion religious people in the world. The better we understand religion, the better we can understand each other and the better we understand ourselves.
Religion motivates some of the loftiest human deeds and some of the most reprehensible human misdeeds. The better we understand religion, the better we can manage its expression.
Religion binds many communities together. The better we understand religion, the better we understand community.
Religion aims to deal with the most vitally significant realities in the world. If religious people meet this goal even half-way, then it will pay dividends to know what the wisdom of the ages teaches. Besides, it would be tough to be a world citizen without knowing what other world citizens identify at the most important things in life.
Why study religion at Carthage?
A very diverse faculty will provide you with a wide range of approaches to religious questions. All have earned PhDs, publishing records, extensive involvement in professional associations and plenty of enthusiasm for teaching.
The Carthage religion curriculum is progressive in design, addressing the most pressing religious issues of the day while providing the depth and breadth in classical religious scholarship needed for effective ministry and graduate studies.
The flexibility of the Carthage religion major will allow you to customize the program to meet your interests and needs, and to readily combine it with a major or minor in other disciplines at Carthage.
With the Carthage religion department you will have ample opportunity to study outside the country for a J-term or semester. Currently programs are offered in India, the Mediterranean world and Germany.
The Carthage religion department has a fine record of landing graduates in some of the most prestigious seminaries and graduate schools in the country.
