ART提供有关亚洲宗教历史，知识和文化背景的培训。学生通常在一个文化领域（中国或日本）专长，并从布朗学院的专业领域中选择自己的传统或专业领域。哈罗德·罗斯（Harold Roth）专攻古典时期的中国思想和宗教，以及早期的道教沉思传统。贾森·普罗塔斯（Jason Protass）研究中国佛教，特别是禅宗和禅宗研究。珍妮·安德森·泽田（Janine Anderson Sawada）专攻日本宗教，特别侧重于16至19世纪的流行宗教以及佛教和儒家运动。宗教研究系是校园中从事宗教研究和教学的主要场所，尽管不是唯一的
ART offers training in Asian religions in their historical, intellectual, and cultural contexts. Students normally specialize in one cultural area (China or Japan) and choose their tradition or region of specialization from among the fields of expertise of the Brown faculty. Harold Roth specializes in Chinese thought and religion of the classcial period, and in early Daoist contemplative traditions. Jason Protass works on Chinese Buddhism, especially Chan and Zen studies. Janine Anderson Sawada specializes in Japanese religions, with particular emphasis on popular religions and Buddhist and Confucian movements of the 16th through 19th centuries. The Department of Religious Studies is the principal, though not the sole, site on campus to engage in research and teaching that pertains to the various manifestations of religion. The Department employs those academic approaches that one typically associates with the liberal arts, especially the social sciences and the humanities. This includes, but is not limited to, a commitment to developing skills and habits of thought that enable students to interpret and engage with a complex world, past and present, near and far, familiar and unfamiliar, natural and social. Religious Studies fosters such scholarly capacities and skills as close reading (of texts and other social and material data), excellence in writing and verbal expression, interpretation of the past from written and physical evidence, interpretation of contemporary society by not only studying it directly but by applying knowledge of other times and other places.