宗教哲学博士-亚洲，伊斯兰和犹太传统的批判研究

宗教学哲学博士学位由研究生院宗教系提供。学生可以被录取为博士学位。从获得学士学位的认可大学或获得学士学位后的认可的神学院或研究生院毕业后获得该课程。M.Div。的学生 或MA学位可直接录取为博士学位。程序。通常，只有学士学位的学生首先被录取为MA课程。后者的成功完成为博士研究奠定了基础，但不能保证可以攻读博士学位。程序。建议拥有学士学位的申请者不仅要考虑研究生院的文学硕士课程，还要考虑范德比尔特神学院的两年制MTS（神学硕士）课程，以准备攻读博士学位。工作。
The PhD program prepares students for teaching and advanced scholarship in religious studies. Training is two-fold. Students are first introduced to a variety of critical approaches to the study of religion. Questions of theory and method are central. Each student will also focus on one primary and one secondary religious tradition. Graduates of the Critical Studies program will emerge 1) with a rigorous grounding in at least one religious tradition and 2) in conversation with the wider contemporary social scientific and humanities disciplines as they relate to the study of religion.<br><br>Critical Studies research is typically carried out with a concern for the construction of the category of religion. Thus objects and ideas are not taken to be inherently religious, but rather assume this quality thanks to historical, ideological, or methodological gestures. Comparative approaches to religion may also frame this type of research. The orientation is toward the disciplinary object (and the conditions for its emergence), the disciplinary subject (and the conditions for its emergence), and their dialectical interaction. Neither theory nor method can be appropriated aside from the object to be methodically theorized.