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Contact Information:
Phone: 218.299.3427
Location: Academy
Chair: Roy Hammerling (e-mail)
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Get to know:
Oby Ballinger
'05, Yale Divinity School
Roy Hammerling, associate professor
The study of religion is an important component of the academic
programs at Concordia, a Lutheran college affiliated with the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Students may major or
minor in religion, and all students take two religion courses
as part of the college’s liberal arts core curriculum.
Students are introduced to how religious traditions are formed,
how they change and how they interact with other aspects of
human existence. Because religious beliefs and practices organize
human life around ultimate commitments and concerns, understanding
the varied forms and elements of religion contributes to quality
liberal arts learning and engagement with enduring questions
about meaning, truth and the good life.
Requirements
for a Major or Minor
• Students intending to major in religion are
assigned an adviser from the Religion Department.
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Students planning a second major or a minor in religion are
advised by a departmental committee to plan a schedule geared
toward personal interests and needs.
• Nine courses
are required for the major. Additionally, the research seminar
is required and students must take one course from each of the
study areas: Interpretive Studies, Historical Studies, Comparative
Studies and Constructive Studies.
• Students earn
a minor in religion by taking five courses, including Religion
100 and a second 300-level course. Students develop a course
of study in consultation with a department adviser and normally
declare a minor during the junior year.
Preseminary
Studies
• Concordia offers excellent preparation
for students intending to study theology at a seminary so they
may serve in ordained ministry, campus ministry, college teaching,
institutional ministry, military chaplaincy, parish education,
social work, missionary service or other fields of interest.
• In most years, more Concordia graduates go on to become
ordained Lutheran clergy than graduates from any other college
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
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In addition to a major in religion, courses in the liberal arts,
including English, history, philosophy, language, sociology
and psychology, are helpful to students planning to attend a
seminary.
• A major in religion is also excellent
preparation for students interested in teaching at the college
level and who plan on going directly to a graduate school of
religious studies or theology.
Study Abroad
• Opportunities for studying
religion in another geographical-cultural setting are available
through May Seminars Abroad; through participation in an archaeological
dig at Caesarea, Israel; in semester-length programs at the
University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Africa, and in Crete,
Malta, India and Scandinavia.
• The Religion Department
cosponsors May Seminars Abroad led by one or more faculty members.
One seminar addresses contemporary religious issues as well
as the ancient Mediterranean world of the Bible, Judaism, Christianity
and Islam. Another seminar focuses on the relationship between
church and culture and the transition to modern Europe and Russia.
Students take a required preseminar, on-campus preparatory course
during spring semester before traveling.
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M. Anderson
professor
218.299.3932
James W. Aageson
professor
218.299.3425
Ahmed Afzaal
assistant professor
218.299.3423
Shawn Carruth
associate professor
218.299.3422
Roy Hammerling
associate professor
218.299.3427
Stewart W. Herman
associate professor
218.299.3424
Suzanne Hequet
visiting assistant professor
218.299.3435
Michael Johnson
visiting instructor
218.299.3908
Hilda Koster
instructor, 218.299.3410
Tamara Lanaghan
assistant professor
218.299.3436
Michelle M. Lelwica
associate professor
218.299.3437
Jan Pranger
assistant professor
218.299.3416
Ernest L.Simmons
professor
218.299.3430
Elna K. Solvang
associate professor
218.299.3435
D. Matthew Stith
adjunct instructor
218.299.3417
Mary L.Thornton
office manager
218.299.3334
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