The Religious Studies Department educates students in religious and theological disciplines, including the study of religious texts, histories, beliefs, practices, and ethics. Rooted in Santa Clara’s mission and identity as a Jesuit Catholic University, the department seeks to engage Catholic faith in critical dialogue with the world’s religious traditions and conduct Christian theology in conversation with a full range of religious studies methodologies.
The department thus aims to educate students in the knowledge and skills they need (1) to think in a multidisciplinary and contextualized way about religion and matters of Christian faith, (2) to reason critically and ethically about personal beliefs and institutional religious practices, (3) to explore how religions are lived and practiced in local communities and global contexts, and (4) to cultivate a sense of solidarity with poor and marginalized communities informed by the study of theology and religion.
Submissions from 1993
Augustine on the Couch: Psychohistorical (Mis)Readings of the Confessions, Diane Jonte-Pace
Psychoanalysis after Feminism, Diane Jonte-Pace
Submissions from 1992
Printing and Religion in China: Some Evidence from the Taishang Ganying Pian, Catherine M. Bell
Presidential Address: The Rise of Atheism and the Religious Epoché, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Catholicity, Inculturation and Newman’s Sensus Fidelium, Paul G. Crowley
Foreword: Notes on a Friendship, Diane Jonte-Pace
Maternal Absence, Castration and the End of the World: A Freudian Reading of the Notion of Self as Endangered Species, Diane Jonte-Pace
Situating Kristeva Differently: Psychoanalytic Readings of Woman and Religion, Diane Jonte-Pace
Which Feminism, Whose Freud?, Diane Jonte-Pace
Submissions from 1991
The Church and Its Responsibility to Foster Knowledge, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Instrumentum Divinitatis in Thomas Aquinas: Recovering the Divinity of Christ, Paul G. Crowley
Praxis and Humanism, Paul G. Crowley
Technology, Truth and Language: The Crisis of Theological Discourse, Paul G. Crowley
Submissions from 1990
The Ritual Body and The Dynamics of Ritual Power, Catherine M. Bell
Religion and Science: Paul Davies and Jolm Paul II, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Submissions from 1989
Religion and Chinese Culture: Toward an Assessment of "Popular Religion", Catherine M. Bell
Ritual, Change, and Changing Rituals, Catherine M. Bell
Experience and culture: a point of departure for American atheism, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Quest for the Religious Freud: Faith, Morality, and Gender in Psychoanalysis, Diane Jonte-Pace
Submissions from 1988
Ritualization of Texts and Textualization of Ritual in the Codification of Taoist Liturgy, Catherine M. Bell
Submissions from 1987
Discourse and Dichotomies: The Structure of Ritual Theory, Catherine M. Bell
Introduction: "This Damnable Paradoxe", Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Object Relations Theory, Mothering, and Religion: Toward a Feminist Psychology of Religion, Diane Jonte-Pace
Submissions from 1986
From Prophets to Perception: The Origins of Rorschach's Psychology, Diane Jonte-Pace
Submissions from 1985
The Charism and Identity of Religious Life, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Religion: A Rorschachian Projection Theory, Diane Jonte-Pace
Submissions from 1984
Reflections on the Document, 'Essential Elements .. .', Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Submissions from 1983
Jesuit, Catholic Higher Education: Some Tentative Theses, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Submissions from 1982
The University and the Concern for Justice: The Search for a New Humanism, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Submissions from 1979
Atheism and Contemplation, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Mission in Companionship: Of Jesuit Community and Communion, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Ego Functions in a Variety of Dream States, Diane Jonte-Pace
Submissions from 1978
Toward the Construction of Theology: Response to Richard McKeon, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Transcendence, truth, and faith: the ascending experience of God in all human inquiry, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Submissions from 1976
Jesuit Priesthood: Its Meaning and Commitments, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Submissions from 1975
The Confirmation of Promise: A Letter to George Ganss, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Submissions from 1971
Philosophy and the Liberal Arts, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
The Catholic University as Pluralistic Forum, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Submissions from 1970
Philosophic Method in Cicero, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Submissions from 1963
Saint Justin and the Ascent of the Mind to God, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Submissions from 1961
A Thomistic Philosophy of History, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
Submissions from 1960
The Spirituality of the Human Ego, Michael J. Buckley S.J.
