Stanford's Department of Religious Studies offers a variety of disciplinary perspectives on religion and on the history, literature, thought, and practice of particular religious traditions. The department is home to a dozen regular faculty, with strengths especially in the study of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam; it enrolls about thirty graduate students and roughly as many undergraduate majors.

ReligiousWorlds: Sources for Religion, Religions, Religious Studies. Resources and links for study of comparative religion, new religious movements, religious experience, and mysticism. Includes a web-linked Who's Who in the History of Mysticism.