Resources

Religion and Culture Working Group

The Religion and Culture Working Group, funded by the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, promotes discussion among faculty and students interested in interdisciplinary investigations of the subject of religion both past and present. The group adopts broad-based theoretical approaches to the study of religion, understood in this context to include the material culture, modes of expression, philosophy, institutions, and experiences that are infused with spiritual or transcendent meaning. For more information or to join the Working Group, contact one of the group conveners: Daniel Schwartz, Department of History or Heidi Campbell, Department of Communication.


Useful Links

  The Pluralism Project
  American Academy of Religion
  Metanexus Institute
  Religion in American History
  Religion Dispatches
  Center for the Study of Religion and > American Culture at IUPUI
  Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals
  Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University
  Centre for the Study of Islam and Muslim Cultures (CSIMCNZ)
  Research Methods for the Study of Religion
  Teagle Foundation
  The Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network
  Philosophy of Religion Online Textbook
  Philosophy in the World's Religions
  University of Edinburgh Religious Studies Project blogs and podcasts
  Selected Research Projects in Religious Studies and Theology
  Center for Religious Literacy


Books

  The Way Things Are
Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life.
Huston Smith
Edited and with a Preface by Phil Cousineau

  God is Not One
Stephen Prothero.
Harper Collins, 2010.

  Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations
translated by Michael A. Sells
White Cloud Press, 1999.

  Christianity: A Way of Salvation
Sandra S. Frankiel
Harper & Row, 1985.

  An Introduction to Hinduism
Gavin D. Flood
Cambridge University Press, 1996.

  Judaism: Revelations and Traditions
Michael A. Fishbane
Harper & Row, 1987

  The Story of Buddhism: A Concise Guide to Its History and Teachings
Donald S. Lopez Jr.
HarperSanFrancisco, 2001

  World Religions in America: An Introduction
edited by Jacob Neusner
Westminster John Knox Press, 3rd edition, 2003.

THE TAMU PRETHEOLOGY SOCIETY
The Pretheology Society is a University recognized organization of undergraduate students. Its purpose is to prepare students for the advanced study of religion at graduate schools, or seminaries, or the military chaplaincy. Students of all faiths and religious backgrounds and interests are welcome. The Society sponsors programs on topics selected by students, assists students in applying for graduate education and sponsors trips to religious sites and graduate schools in the southwest. The Society was first organized in 1967 and has extensive contacts with former religious studies graduates of Texas A & M. Contact Kevin Kapchinski, president kevinkapchinski@gmail.com or Rebecca Kummerfeld, secretary rebecca10@neo.tamu.edu or Richard Stadelmann, advisor richard@philosophy.tamu.edu