Westar Institute, home of the Jesus Seminar, takes the study of religion out of the Ivory Tower and into the Public Square. SALEM, Ore. — Westar Institute, home of the Jesus Seminar, a renowned ...

I n 2015, Harvard University Press began to publish the Murty Classical Library of India, a series of editions and translations of texts in a wide range of Indian languages, under the direction of ...

Religious studies students get to wrestle with big questions about the meaning of life, the power of politics and the media to shape our understanding, and the way societies and individuals invoke ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Teaching religion in public education can benefit from the discourse in Religious Studies (RS) around the problem/problem of defining religion ...

The Center on Lived Religion (COLR) facilitates a deeper understanding of religion through research, teaching, and public engagement. Our work grows out of the Lived Religion in the Digital Age ...

The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder combines the intimacy of a classic liberal arts education, the rigor of a strong graduate program and a climate of engagement ...

I am a senior lecturer in the Department of Studies in Religion - and so have some vested interest in keeping the critical study of religion alive. Global developments in tertiary education suggest ...

Religion, particularly Protestantism, was central to the mission of the country’s first universities. Chapels were constructed at the center of campuses. University presidents, often devout, worried ...

Studying religion at Luther equips you to be a global citizen in a diverse and changing world. The academic study of religion helps you become competent in religious literacy. It also provides ...

The precarious life and hard times of religion in the university More important, according to Hart, it has been conflicted from the start. Its practitioners have pursued the study of supernaturalist ...