Welcome to the website for the Department of Religion at Florida State University. The various links indicated on this page will provide you with information about our programs, faculty and staff, ongoing research, and teaching.

We are embarking on our forty-seventh academic year as a department, and are looking forward to visiting lecturers, the annual international grad student conference, departmental colloquia, Religion Club events, and various other occasional academic activities and social gatherings.

The study of religion at Florida State University is located squarely in the tradition of humanities scholarship. Our faculty represent a wide range of research orientations and our programs operate in close collaboration with several other departments and programs at the University. Please take time to visit the links provided for the various institutes, centers, programs, and affiliated departments. And please write with questions and comments—we’d like to hear from you. 

John Kelsay
Chair, Religion Department

Dianna Bell accepts a position as a Mellon Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University

Dr. Cuevas has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
Dr. Cuevas has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013. He is one of only four scholars in the field of religion to be awarded this prestigious honor. He was also recently awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).>>Read More

Dr. Matthew Goff is awarded Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
Professor Goff will spend one year in Germany to research his project dealing with the Dead Sea Scrolls and the great flood in the book of Genesis. For an FSU story on this grant, click here.

Chris Blythe has won the Communal Studies Institute prize for best paper in the annual competition
It will be published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought next month. Title: “The Highest Class of Adulterers and Whoremongers”: Plural Marriage, the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite), and the Construction of Memory.”

The Religion department is now offering an on-line version of its popular Introduction to World Religions class
Click here for a promotional video about the class. In Spring 2013 the following on-line section is being offered:REL 1300-15