Welcome to the Department of Religious Studies!
We, the diverse faculty in the Department of Religious Studies, aim to foster, through teaching, research, and service the human understanding of religion and religious traditions. Our faculty consists of experts in Bible and biblical Hebrew, Christianity, religious ethics, Hinduism and Sanskrit, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and Arabic, African religions, and African-American studies. Web pages of individual faculty present their major interests and research agendas. Feel free to contact any member of the department.
The Department of Religious Studies ranks among the top programs in our discipline. The Please visit both our undergraduate program web site for more information.
Recent Successes
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Quick Links
- American Academy of Religion
- International Association for the History of Religions
- Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- North American Association for the Study of Religion
- Religious Studies Library Subject Guide
- Society for the Anthropology of Religion
- Society of Biblical Literature
Course Schedules
Contact Information
Department of Religious Studies
Gilya Gerda Schmidt, Ph.D.
Professor and Head
501 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-0450
Phone: 865-974-2466
Fax: 865-974-0965
Email: dbinder@utk.edu