宗教研究系致力于对宗教作为人类文化的内在和至关重要的方面进行学术研究。对宗教的学术研究是文科教育不可或缺的一部分。宗教学生从事批判性和解释性任务，将宗教思想和行为模式理解为人类文化经验的一部分。宗教研究是跨学科的，它借鉴了人文和社会科学的探究模式。这些包括历史，哲学，社会学，人类学和心理学的观点。宗教研究是一门涉及世界主要宗教传统的特征和意义的跨文化比较学科。宗教学生面临着现代多元文化和技术社会提出的道德问题以及价值和意义的基本问题。
Lehigh's undergraduate major and minor in religious studies is devoted to the academic investigation of religion as an intrinsic dimension of human experience and culture. At its core, religion studies is a cross-cultural discipline. Faculty explore multiple dimensions of diverse religious worlds and the people who inhabit them, employing a wide variety of languages, methodologies and critical theories as interpretive tools. <br>The religion studies department is committed to the academic investigation of religion as an intrinsic and vital dimension of human culture. The scholarly study of religion is an integral facet of a liberal arts education. The student of religion is engaged in the critical and interpretive task of understanding patterns of religious thought and behavior as aspects of the human cultural experience. Religion studies is interdisciplinary in that it draws upon humanistic and social scientific modes of inquiry. These include historical, philosophical, sociological, anthropological, and psychological perspectives. Religion studies is a cross-cultural, comparative discipline concerned with the character and significance of the major religious traditions of the world. The student of religion confronts ethical problems and basic issues of value and meaning raised by modern multicultural and technological society.