Religion & Philosophy Department

Religion intersects with all of life.

The academic study of religion is a core element of liberal arts education. It is our intention that students come to a deeper understanding of religion as a lived enterprise that is both personal and corporate in nature, and that relies on both assumptions and practice. The Religion Program approaches the study of religion from the point of inquiry of what it means to be human. In doing so, our courses pursue investigations of how people have thought about and lived out aspects of religious life across time and space. Our faculty begin from the place of taking the religious presuppositions and practical manifestations of religious life seriously. Students in our program engage different theories of religion and methods for studying religion while growing in awareness of important debates in the academic study of religion.

Engaging students in critical and reflective thought.

Providing you with techniques of sound reasoning, philosophy majors go on to study law, medicine, religion, and are well prepared for applying to graduate school. At Emory & Henry, our courses include ethics, argumentation and debate, techniques in reasoning, philosophy of religion, jurisprudence and political philosophy.