Lethbridge, Alberta, CA Program Description At the University of Lethbridge, Religious Studies is offered as a major in the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree program in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
Religious Studies aims to enhance critical understanding of the phenomenon of religion and the diversity of religious experience and expression from antiquity to the present in both Eastern and Western traditions. Fundamental issues such as belief, texts, worship, ritual, concepts of the divine, the human condition, and the historical development of particular religions are examined. The academic study of religion requires a measure of neutrality and distance, whereby all religious traditions are treated with similar respect and critical inquiry.
