News & Events

Check out this video interview of recent alumni of our undergraduate program as they share where they are now.

Recent grads share the value of transferable skills from the SCaR program to their current careers.

Join SCaRS on March 10 at 6:00 p.m. for a Zoom discussion on the benefits of a degree in SCaRS, career opportunities, and a chance to chat with alumni!

Recent graduates are interviewed by current program students and share why they chose Society, Culture & Religion for their undergraduate program at McMaster.

Check out this brief video introducing SCAR 2BE3 - The Bible and the Environment

Introduction to Judaism (SCAR 2J03) is offered in the Winter session 2022.

Celia Rothenberg, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, was recently featured in the Conversation

Please join the Department of Religious Studies for our speaker series, featuring Dustin Atlas with the lecture "Talking to Creatures who Don't Speak: Martin Buber and the House Cat"

PhD candidate, Channah Fonseca-Quezada, has been featured in The Conversation.

Please join the Department of Religious Studies for our Speaker Series, featuring a talk called: "Old Men, Young Blood: Transhumanism and the Promise and Peril of Immortality" from Jenny Huberman on Tuesday November 16th, 2021 @ 2:30 p.m.

Recognizing recent MA and PhD defences in the Department of Religious Studies

Check out the links to brief videos introducing SCAR 2NT3 "Introduction to the New Testament" and SCAR 2RD3 "Religion and Diversity"

Welcome to our newest CLA faculty member, Jeremy Cohen!

Celia Rothenberg, incoming Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, was recently featured in the Conversation.

Professor Celia Rothenberg's appointment will begin on July 1, 2021. As department chair, Rothenberg will oversee the graduate and undergraduate programs in Religious Studies and represent the department in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

The Department of Religious Studies is pleased to announce details of the following event: Magic, Healing, and Religion Workshop on May 26, 2021.

A new paper by Ellen Amster, Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Department of Family Medicine has been published in The Journal of Interreligious Studies.

Join the Department of Religious Studies as we go over what to expect in graduate school, and answer questions.

Welcome our new CLA faculty member, Dr. Meirav Jones

The Department of Religious Studies is hiring TA's for Arabic.

Author talk by Dr. Maia Kotrosits will discuss The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity