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-fourth academic year as a department, and are looking forward to visiting lecturers, the annual international grad student conference, departmental colloquia, 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 provided. And please write with questions and comments—we’d like to hear from you. 

John Corrigan
Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor
Chair, Religion Department

9th Annual Graduate Student Symposium

The Florida State University Department of Religion’s 9th Annual Graduate Student Symposium has partnered with the Society for Women’s Advancement in Philosophy’s 6th Annual Conference to present an interdisciplinary graduate student symposium to be held February 19-21, 2010.

Tessa J. Bartholomeusz Lecture Series

March 3, 2010. Dr. Luis Gomez, "Distorted Views: Buddhism with a 'Self'? The Inversion of Traditional Doctrinal Categories in the [Mahāyāna] Mahāparinirvāna Mahā Sūtra." 4:00PM, Broad Auditorium, Claude Pepper Center .