To which Religion field/discipline are you applying? (Poll)

[demondeac]

So I start off apologizing. I am interested in what fields of study most people are interested in, and I am maddeningly bored by waiting for any news on applications. I ask this question assuming multiple, complex identities beyond such "common designations", and noting the objection that "Religion" is philosophically modern notion that cannot be more than perhaps a Wittgensteinian family-resemblance term. This is why I absolutely love this field. No simple questions without myriad objections, clarifications, and disclaimers!

If I neglected your discipline, I am sorry...maybe you should post more often so I would remember it! I almost forgot "ethics", so I probably forgot a few major fields. Sorry ethicists.

[academiccricket]

Well, clearly as the only other person who has voted (thus far), I'm in Hebrew Bible but am primarily working within HB to do textual criticism and Semitic philology. I applied to 6 Ph.D. programs and 1 MA, but I just want to have access to academic libraries again! :mrgreen:

[Jufarius87]

Other: Professional Ministry and Political Theology... didnt really seem to fit into one of the categories

[demondeac]

The poll only allows 10 spots unfortunately... but professional ministry is (hopefully) a form of practical theology... so I guess theology would be the appropriate category (I hope theology isn't just the academic study of dusty concepts!).

[Jufarius87]

Depends on where you go I imagine!

Yea I picked theology though for my vote.

[lloyd777w]

New Testament

[studyordie]

I'm glad you started off this thread with an apology deamondeac, I for one am infuriated I could not vote for "theologicalish things" and had to settle for "theology" ....

[tshaunprice]

Hello everyone. I applied under ethics to all the schools, save one (Purdue) that has a religion and literature program. I did a MA, MDiv and ThM at a Baptist Seminary and am finishing a MA in English at a state school in North Carolina.