Abrahamic Literature
112: Hebrew Bible
114: Jesus and the Gospels
115: Major Themes of the Qur’an
116: Paul and Early Christianity
217: Paul Through Jewish and Christian Eyes
226: From Prophecy to Apocalyptic

Historical Studies
135: History of Religion in America
214: Classical Mythology
223: Religions of India: Hinduism and Buddhism
224: Religious Thought of China and Japan
227: Ancient Near Eastern Religion

Theological Studies
120: Introduction to Roman Catholic Thought
131: Jesus Saves? Salvation Metaphors in Christian Thought
215: Christian Theology
236: The Christian Experience of Sin and Redemption
255: Latin American Liberation Theology

Religion & Culture
130: Religion, Myth and the Movies
133: Native American Religions
136: Seeing and Believing: Women, Religion and Film
225: Theology and Culture
251: Modern Jewish Religious Movements

Ethics
210: Christian Ethics
211: Christian Ethics and War
212: Materialism: The Disenchantment of Nature
240: Jewish and Christian Feminism
245: Religion and Politics
246: War and Peace in the Biblical World

Advanced Study
310: Methods in Religious Study
370: The Senior Seminar
385: Directed Study in Religion

190-199, 290-299, 390-399. Special Topics.
381-384. Independent Study.
386-388. Field Study.
400-401. Honors.

Students have access to the research facilities of the Center for Jewish Studies (a privately endowed institution located at Lehigh University) and to the outstanding library collection of the Moravian Theological Seminary (located in the College’s Reeves Library). Consortium courses in religion are regularly taught on Moravian’s campus by the faculty of the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges. Cross-registration for courses on other campuses is also possible.

Students may take courses at Moravian Theological Seminary. The department has offered study tours to Koinonia Farm and other religious communities in the United States and to England, Israel, and Mexico. Religion students are active in the Campus Chapel Program and the Religious Life Council (a College committee).

KELLY DENTON-BORHAUG

Assistant Professor of Religion

EDUCATION:  B.A., California State University, Northridge; M.Div., Pacific Lutheran Theological Semianry; Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA

INTERESTS:  Christian images and understandings of salvation, feminist theology and ethics, ethics and war. Currently Dr. Denton-Borhaug is working on research related to the intersection between Christian understandings of sacrifice, and sacrificial ideology in “war-culture.”

ARASH NARAGHI

Assistant Professor of Religion

EDUCATION:  M.A. and Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

INTERESTS:  Epistemology of religious experience, The problem of evil, Islamic theology (ethical theories in Islam), Islamic mysticism (The school of Kowrassan), Contemporary Shi'ism, and modernism in Islam (The challenges of human rights, and feminism).

JASON RADINE

Assistant Professor of Religion

EDUCATION: B.A., M.A., & Ph.D., University of Michigan

INTERESTS: The origins of Israelite/Jewish identity in the ancient Near East, intra-religious conflict in biblical texts, ancient Near Eastern culture and religion, modern Judaism, ethical issues in religion. Dr. Radine's current research projects are on the phenomenon of literary prophecy and its role in the development of Israelite/Jewish religious and political thought.

DONALD P. ST. JOHN

Professor of Religion; Chair of the Department of Religion

EDUCATION: B.A., St. Francis College; M.A., Temple University; Ph.D., Fordham University

INTERESTS: Religions of Asia, Native American Religions, and Environmental Philosophy/Spirituality. Dr. St. John has focused much of his recent research and publishing on Thomas Merton (1915-1968), the American Catholic spiritual writer. In 2004 Don won a Catholic Press Association award for "Teilhard in the 21st Century: The Emerging Spirit of Earth," co-edited with Arthur Fabel. Editor of "Teilhard Studies" from 1994-2007, Don is also founder and editor of "Ecospirit," a mini-journal dedicated to the exploration of ecological spirituality.

Mary Faith Carson G. Clarke Chapman James Yerkes