Our Religious Studies students are equipped to understand our diverse and rapidly changing world while learning much about themselves. This comparative field of study imbues students with the ability to assess diverse actions, traditions, and values. The knowledge and habits of mind learned in Religious Studies remain relevant forever, as key to a life of conscious choice and thoughtful, multi-cultural engagement.
Religious Studies courses help you examine your core values, both objectively and in terms of personal experience. In our classes, you will explore how people make sense of the world and enhance your global cultural knowledge as you engage in a wide variety of topics from barbecue to baseball, magic to mindfulness, and sexuality to the sacred.
Prof. Patrick Michelson published an article about the ways in which the Orthodox churches of Kyivan Rus’, Muscovy, and especially imperial Russia have interpreted war through the language and concept of “Christian soldiers.”
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Please join Teaching Religion in Public (TRiP) for ARTIFICE a multimodal public workshop at which attendees will be invited to explore the questions that artificial intelligence raises for thinking, teaching, and being human on April 17th.
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A record number of twenty students from Indiana University, Duke, Notre Dame, Columbia, Barnard College, University of Chicago, and Harvard met on March 6-7 as part of our Undergraduate Religious Studies Association (URSA) Symposium.
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Keegan Nichols presented his paper, “How Feeling Obligates: Sensus Communis and Aesthetic Normativity in Kant,” at a symposium on Kant’s Critique of Judgment, co-hosted by Indiana University’s Departments of Philosophy and Germanic Studies.
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies Cooper Harriss has been appointed Director of the Center for Religion and the Human through June 30, 2028.
More about Cooper HarrissOur department is home to an incredible community of teachers and students ready to support your intellectual and personal pursuits. We are innovative and open-minded researchers who welcome unconventional ideas to help us better understand the role religion plays in culture and society.
The study of religion broadens and deepens your understanding of the diverse richness and mystery that attends being human. Our faculty is engaged in research through the LUCE-funded Being Human project to learn more about what it means to be human in our rapidly changing world.
Apr 09
Religion and the Human Lecture Series: Rachel McDermott
RADIO-TELEVISION CENTER (WFIU AND WTIU)
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Apr 16
Apr 17
ARTIFICE Questions of Language, Devotion, and Technology in Contemporary Classrooms
ESKENAZI SCHOOL OF ART, ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN MIES VAN DER ROHE BUILDING
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The College of Arts