Denise K. Buell

Chair and Cluett Professor of Religion

dbuell@williams.edu

413-597-4984

Sawyer Library Rm 511

Education

B.A. Princeton University (1987)
M.Div. Harvard University (1990)
Ph.D. Harvard University, Religion (1995)

Courses

REL 103 LEC

The Way of Power: A History of Occult Knowledge and Practices (not offered 2025/26)

REL 111 / CLAS 111 SEM

Oracle, Prophecy, Possession: Commun(icat)ing with Divine Powers (not offered 2025/26)

REL 212 LEC

The Development of Christianity: 30-600 C.E. (not offered 2025/26)

REL 270 / COMP 263 / CLAS 270 SEM

Reading Jesus, Writing Gospels: Christian Origins in Context (not offered 2025/26)

REL 276 / COMP 258 LEC

Gnosis, Gnostics, Gnosticism (not offered 2025/26)

REL 285(F) TUT

Haunted: Ghosts in the Study of Religion

REL 289(S) SEM

Apocalypse Now, Then, and Again

REL 306 / WGSS 307 SEM

Feminist Approaches to Religion (not offered 2025/26)

REL 401(F) SEM

Issues in the Study of Religion