Word: religion
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...separate seminary programs began to arise, the role of religion in the undergraduate curriculum became nebulous, and the University began to offer courses in Christianity for college graduates, eventually sparking the creation of the Divinity School in 1816 to encourage a “serious, impartial, and unbiased investigation of Christian truth,” according to its constitution...
...think the mission has been changed, and that it still has a focus,” she says. “The Divinity School is about religion. It’s not necessarily about Christianity...
...says that non-Western faiths have found a larger place at the school, encouraging a more general study of religion...
...started to have a critical mass in non-Western religion, as a result of which in the last 10 years, we have changed our curricular structure,” Gyatso says...
...We’re now integrating non-Western religion, and it’s not just because of a greater number of non-Western courses. The whole understanding of religion and how we study it has shifted...