What Things Can You Do with an Expertise in the Academic Study of Religion in the World of Work?
Short answer: Anything you want
Long Answer: Based on a survey of SBC graduates the range of careers after 1909 is unlimited
8 Lawyers
6 Independent authors
6 Clergy
10 Phds. In Religion, Area Studies -teaching
7 Doctors and medical practitioners
25 Secondary and Primary school teachers
12 Public Service ( U.S. and state governments)
7 International service agencies
3 Publishers
2 Journalists
7 Artists
3 Gallery owners
10 Private Business
What are the skills you obtain ?
Religion is a centering phenomenon, i.e. it seeks to establish its worldview at the center of societies. By understanding how religions do this in multiple contexts, students acquire the following skills:
1. Historical frame of reference -dynamism of human constructions over time
2. Sociological frame of reference
3. Psychological frame of reference
4. Humanistic frame of reference - anti-scientistic and anti- reductionist
5. Understanding of cultural values and value formations
6. Area studies and language expertise (cultural studies)
7. Philosophical skills: analysis, inductive and deductive logic
8. Dialectical skills - how religion interacts with other ways of knowing and social constructions over time
9. Diversity sensitivity and management skills- art of negotiation