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Faculty

Chair: Professor James Byrne
Professors: John Kenney, Joseph Kroger, Rev. Joseph McLaughlin, Edward Mahoney, Jeffrey Trumbower
Associate Professor: Raymond Patterson 
Assistant Professor: Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent
Visiting Assistant Professor: Stephanie Sleeper

Keeping with the mission of Saint Michael’s as a Catholic liberal arts college, courses in religious studies primarily examine the foundations, development, meaning, and cultural relevance of the Christian tradition: its literature and history, beliefs, practices, and ethics. Courses are also offered in other religious traditions, such as Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. By its nature, religious studies approaches traditions in a multi-disciplinary fashion and inquires into both life’s ultimate questions and issues central to everyday life. The skills of empathic understanding and critical thinking developed in religious studies are not only valuable for almost any career, but they also serve to enrich one’s entire life. Recent majors and minors in religious studies are successfully pursuing careers in teaching, law, business management, journalism, information management, social services, college administration, various church ministries and other fields.

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