RELST-PHD - Religious Studies (PhD)

Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Studies

Graduate Degrees describes university requirements for the PhD degree. 

The PhD in Religious Studies signifies special knowledge of an interdisciplinary field of study and potential mastery of an area of specialization. The department’s faculty have established specific fields of study in which the department’s strengths and those of other Stanford departments cohere. They are: American Religions; Buddhist Studies; Islamic Studies; Jewish Texts and Traditions; Late Antiquity; Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy; and South Asian Religions. Each of these areas of specialization follows a shared structure of study.