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Eric McGlinchey

Eric McGlinchey

Eric McGlinchey is Associate Professor of Politics at the Schar School of Policy and Government. He is the author of Chaos, Violence, Dynasty: Politics and Islam in Central Asia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011). McGlinchey’s areas of research include U.S. foreign policy in Eurasia and Central A...

Robert D. DeCaroli

Robert D. DeCaroli

Robert DeCaroli received his Ph.D. in the field South and Southeast Asian art history from UCLA. He is a specialist in the early history of Buddhism and has conducted fieldwork in India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia. He is the author of Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formatio...

Ahsan Butt

Ahsan Butt

Ahsan Butt is an Assistant Professor of Government and Politics in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University. He received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2012 and a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University in 2006.   Specializing in internatio...

RELI 211-DL1: Religions of the West

Spring 2024 -  Mohammad Mahdi M Shahkolahi   -  Section Syllabus

In this course, students primarily explore the history, practices, beliefs, and contemporarydevelopments of the three major monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Studentswill examine these three religious traditions thematically and comparatively, in order to understandthe simil...

RELI 211-001: Religions of the West

Spring 2024 -  Jim Dooley   -  Section Syllabus

 The study of religions and the ways that they are practiced has fascinatedstudents in all walks of life for as far back as you might care to look — peoplewho are interested in people tend also to be interested in how they think, and inwhat ways they express their beliefs. If it sounds like religion,...