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Dr. Bryan S. Rennie
Chair of the Department of Religion, History, Philosophy, and Classics
Vira I. Heinz Professor of Religion
Co-ordinator of the Heinz Lecture Series at Westminster College:
Religion and the Religions
Co-organizer of:
The North American Undergraduate Conference in Religion and Philosophy
Former
Vice-President and Program Chair
The North American Association for the Study of Religion
2006 - 2009
Most recent publication:
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Myths, Models, and Metaphors: 
Religion as Model and the Philosophy of Science. 
Religion 39/4 (Dec 2009): 340-347. 
Guest Edited by Bryan Rennie. 
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Ph.D. from

Scotland
 Spring 2010:
My office hours will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
I can also be reached by telephone or e-mail and am available at other times by appointment.
Telephone: 724 946 7151.
My only e-mail address is brennie@westminster.edu
 
Why Study Religion?
 
"I am proud to be involved in a profession, religious studies, which has taken seriously the phenomenological method, banning the ideological or theological determination of descriptive or historical truth." (Ninian Smart, Dimensions of the Sacred, p. 177).
 
I teach both philosophy and religious studies, having majored in philosophy as a method for the study of religion. My doctoral work concentrated on theory and method in the study of religion and convinced me that philosophy cannot be adequate as a method for the study of religion without a thorough grasp of the history of religion, just as the history of religion is incomplete without critical philosophical understanding. The History of Religion, like Art History, requires both criticism and content. My publications on the historian of religions, Mircea Eliade, have attracted an international audience and my book from the State University of New York Press, Reconstructing Eliade: Making Sense of Religion, was reviewed, generally favourably, in many of the leading journals in the field. (See reviews.)
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