A picture of a Buddhist monument taken by one of our students on a DU service-learning program

The Religious Studies program at the University of Denver explores the phenomenon of religion as well as religious traditions from around the world. This program will help students qualify for doctoral programs, teach religious studies subject matter in colleges and high schools, and bring cultural and cross-cultural analytical tools to professions such as business, social work, government and journalism.

Course offerings and faculty appointments reflect the department’s commitment to providing a balance of various traditions, methods, and theoretical approaches.

• Undergraduate major in Religious Studies
• M.A. in Religious Studies
• Ph.D. offered conjointly with the Iliff School of Theology

Why religious studies?

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UPCOMING:  2008 JAMES KIRK LECTURE Thursday, May 22, 2008 -

5 to 6 p.m. in Lindsay Auditorium, Sturm Hall 281, Denver University

            4:30 TO 5:00 p.m. Dessert Reception

The Holy Virgin and the Sacred Hill:

Guadalupe and Two Types of Religious Experience in Mexico

A lecture by DAVÍD CARRASCO

Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America

in the Department of Anthropology and the Divinity School,

Harvard University

Davíd Carrasco (PhD University of Chicago) is a historian of religions who specializes in hermeneutics in the study of religion, Mesoamerican religions, and the Mexican-American borderlands. His work focuses on the symbolic nature of cities in comparative perspective, focusing especially on Teotihuacán and México-Tenochtitlán. 

Recent collaborative publications include Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey Through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2 (2007) and Breaking Through Mexico's Past: Digging the Aztecs With Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (2007). His research also emphasizes the religious dimensions of Latina/o experience: mestizaje, the myth of Aztlán, transculturation, and La Virgen de Guadalupe.

Carrasco has received the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor the Mexican government gives to a foreign national.

The lecture is free, but you must RSVP to Consuelo.Bennett@du.edu or 303.871.2749.