The purpose of the Majors Seminar in Religious Studies is to examine more closely what we have been majoring in and how we have been studying it.  Religion is a multifaceted subject, notoriously hard to define and understand.  Our department covers a lot of territory, with courses in numerous religious traditions and cultural areas.  Some courses examine interrelations between “religion” and other subjects: e.g., anthropology, ethics, history, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology. Thus the study of religion is naturally interdisciplinary, and each discipline shapes the study of religion according to its particular assumptions, approaches, and definitions.