Department for the Study of Religion

For the past 30 years the Department for the Study of Religion (DSR) has fostered scholarly excellence and innovation among faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the humanities and social sciences at U of T’s three campuses.

With 21 tenured or tenure-stream faculty, the DSR is among the largest religion departments in Canada, and it is highly regarded internationally for a range of strengths, including religions of Mediterranean Antiquity, Buddhist Studies, Islamic Studies, the anthropology of Christianity, and modern Jewish thought.