Religion Program

Virginia Tech’s Religion program provides a gateway to scholarship, teaching, and public engagement on Religion.  The study of religion is critical to understanding how humans think about the world and their place in it. Religions grapple with the most fundamental questions all humans face. The central tenets of major religions are well positioned to contribute meaningfully to the challenges humans face amid unprecedented technological change.

Students can take diverse courses in the study of religion and pursue a minor in religion. Students who take our courses will understand and navigate the cultural and religious ideas, beliefs, and contexts that help shape social, political, and economic understandings and interactions.

Reflecting Virginia Tech’s interdisciplinary strengths, the Religion program brings together faculty from across the humanities, social sciences, and related fields to examine religious traditions and religious phenomena from a range of scholarly perspectives.

Virginia Tech’s program in Religion is supported by generous gifts, including the Hammond Lectureship in Christian Ethics and Society and the Monsignor Chester Michael Professorship in Catholic Studies, which is funded by a generous gift from Steve and Carol Ham. The Warren Hobbie scholarship also supports students.

For more information about the program and to join the Religion events listserv, contact Dr. Rachel Scott (rmscott@vt.edu).