宗教研究是跨学科领域;我们批判地探索和分析宗教。批判地，从某种意义上说，找出某些事物是如何运转的，以及为什么——不是在“它有什么问题”层面上。审查宗教传统批判性地提供给我们以下没有的视角——历史事件、个人自由和宗教自由的当代宪法问题，日常政治以及政治意识形态、艺术、文学和许多有影响力人物的哲学。宗教学者使用历史，社会学，人口学，人类学，哲学，文学，文化，政治等方法和途径来尝试了解宗教现象。宗教研究不是神学，并欢迎任何希望学习各种宗教的人。我们不希望学生由于学习宗教而变得或多或少有宗教信仰。相反，我们期望每个学习宗教的人都能更好地了解我们的世界如何运作，以及它在过去的工作方式，无疑将在可预见的将来继续发挥作用。
Religious Studies is an interdisciplinary field; we explore and analyze religion critically. Critically – in the sense of figuring out how something works, and why – not in the sense of “what is wrong with it”. Examining religious traditions critically provides insights that we could not otherwise have into historical events, contemporary constitutional issues around individual freedom and freedom of religion, day-to-day politics as well as political ideologies, art, literature, and the philosophies of many influential figures and movements. Scholars of religion use historical, sociological, demographic, anthropological, philosophical, literary, cultural, political, and other methods and approaches to try to understand religious phenomena. Religious Studies is not theology and welcomes anyone who wishes to study various religions with a disciplined and critical intellectual wonder. We do not expect students to become any more or less religious as a result of studying religion. Instead, we expect that everyone who studies religion will attain a better understanding of how our world works – as well as how it has worked in the past, and will no doubt continue to function in the foreseeable future.