The academic study of religion provides critical tools for analyzing how powerful ideologies, institutions, and values of the past continue today to animate not only “religious” people and societies but even the most “modern” and “secular” ones, as well. It is a place where students learn to weave together and integrate the liberal arts education that includes the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences with the ethical, moral, social and religious mores established by the society. In the words of Bates’ mission statement, the Religious Studies curriculum prepares “leaders sustained by a
love of learning and a commitment to responsible stewardship of the wider world.”
Rev. Dr. George Varghese Njarakkunnel - Patron
Dr. Joy Jacob - Chairman
Fr. Jospeh Alancherry - Co-ordinator
Mr. Prakash Joseph - Secretary
Mr. Shaji Augustine - Treasurer
All the Calss Teachers - Faculty