Religion and Culture
Honours BA, Combination Honours BA and Minor:
Full-Time Faculty
- Abderrahman Beggar, PhD, Undergraduate Officer
- Gavin Brockett, PhD, Acting Dean, Faculty of Arts
- Carol Duncan, PhD, Director, Joint PhD Program
- Erich Fox Tree, PhD
- Paul Freston, PhD, CIGI Chair
- David Haskell, PhD
- Ashley Lebner, PhD
- Jason Neelis, PhD, Chair
- Edmund Pries, PhD, Graduate Officer, MA Program
- Meena Sharify-Funk, PhD
- Ali Zaidi, PhD
- Jasmin Zine, PhD
Program Information
- Honours BA Religion and Culture
- Honours BA Religion and Culture in Combination with another Honours BA Program
- Religion and Culture Minor
Courses available only to Year 4 Honours Religion and Culture students (non-honours students may enrol with permission of the department.): RE400, RE424, RE432, RE449, RE455, RE477*, RE490.
| Course # | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| RE100 | Religions of the Americas: Indigenous, African and European | 0.5 |
| RE101 | Religions of the Americas: Asian and Middle Eastern | 0.5 |
| RE103 | Love and Its Myths | 0.5 |
| RE104 | Evil and Its Symbols | 0.5 |
| RE105 | Religion and Cinematic Culture | 0.5 |
| RE106 | Religion and Visual Culture | 0.5 |
| RE109 | Sports and the Sacred | 0.5 |
| RE202 | The Legacy of the Bible: Liberation and Oppression | 0.5 |
| RE203 | Science and Religion | 0.5 |
| RE204 | Introduction to Judaism | 0.5 |
| RE205 | Canadian Religious Controversies | 0.5 |
| RE206 | World Religions in Global Perspective | 0.5 |
| RE207 | Studying Religion | 0.5 |
| RE210 | Writing Virtues and Vices | 0.5 |
| RE211 | Indigenous Religions | 0.5 |
| RE213 | Religious Heritage of Islam | 0.5 |
| RE215 | Early Christian Cultures | 0.5 |
| RE216 | Christianity and Modern Culture | 0.5 |
| RE220 | Religion and Popular Culture | 0.5 |
| RE221 | Being Human in a Global Age | 0.5 |
| RE222 | Minorities and Resistance | 0.5 |
| RE224 | Gendering the Divine | 0.5 |
| RE227 | Religions and Cultures of the Middle East | 0.5 |
| RE230 | The Religious Individual | 0.5 |
| RE233 | Stories and the Sacred | 0.5 |
| RE250 | Buddhist Paths: Emergence and Development | 0.5 |
| RE251 | Asian Religions: China and Japan | 0.5 |
| RE255 | South Asian Religions in Past and Present | 0.5 |
| RE265 | Cults, Sects and New Religious Movements | 0.5 |
| RE285 | Religion and Culture of the African Diaspora | 0.5 |
| RE288 | Religion and Culture Abroad | 1.0 |
| RE301 | Muslims in Europe | 0.5 |
| RE302 | Introduction to Pre-modern South Asian Language Studies | 0.5 |
| RE303 | Intermediate Pre-modern South Asian Language Studies | 0.5 |
| RE304 | Judaism in the Modern World | 0.5 |
| RE307 | Reading Religious Texts | 0.5 |
| RE308 | Conducting Fieldwork | 0.5 |
| RE313 | Grief, Death and Dying | 0.5 |
| RE317 | Mennonite Culture | 0.5 |
| RE318 | Canadian Native Religious Traditions | 0.5 |
| RE320 | Religion and Cultural Studies | 0.5 |
| RE321 | Gandhi: Non-Violence and the Struggle for Freedom | 0.5 |
| RE323 | Global Migrations, Refugees and Diasporas | 0.5 |
| RE330 | Controversial Religious Issues and Movements | 0.5 |
| RE331 | Religious Diversity in Contemporary Canada | 0.5 |
| RE332 | Sacred Space | 0.5 |
| RE333 | Food and Religion | 0.5 |
| RE335 | Jesus of Nazareth | 0.5 |
| RE336 | Religious Experience | 0.5 |
| RE337 | Asian Spiritual Practices | 0.5 |
| RE338 | Islamic Mysticism | 0.5 |
| RE339 | Dynamics of Islamaphobia | 0.5 |
| RE342 | Directed Studies | 0.5 |
| RE344 | Apocalypticism | 0.5 |
| RE348 | Psychology and Religion | 0.5 |
| RE349 | Special Topics in Religion and Culture | 0.5 |
| RE350 | Forbidden Language | 0.5 |
| RE355 | Indigenous Peoples in Global Context | 0.5 |
| RE366 | Religion and Violence | 0.5 |
| RE372 | Women's Lives and Religious Values | 0.5 |
| RE374 | Religion and Sexuality | 0.5 |
| RE377 | Gender and Islam | 0.5 |
| RE380 | Religion and Social Change | 0.5 |
| RE385 | Caribbean Religion and Culture | 0.5 |
| RE388 | Religion and Culture Abroad | 0.5 |
| RE400 | Writing in Religious Studies | 0.5 |
| RE407 | Research Seminar | 1.0 |
| RE424 | Seminar in Buddhism | 0.5 |
| RE432 | Seminar in Contemporary Christianity | 0.5 |
| RE440 | Language, Ideology and Identity | 0.5 |
| RE449 | Special Topics in Religion and Culture | 0.5 |
| RE455 | Seminar in Hinduism | 0.5 |
| RE477 | Seminar in Field Research on Religion | 1.0 |
| RE490 | Directed Study in Religion and Culture | 0.5 |