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.
Teaching Religion in Public (TRiP) announces their Spring series on Scripture. The series explores the pedagogical stakes of canonization and reverence. How do we teach texts deemed uniquely authoritative without being constrained by questions of authority or power dynamics? What can be learned by shifting attention from specific scriptures to the category itself?
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Edited by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, At Home and Abroad bridges the divide in the study of American religion, law, and politics between domestic and international to explore interrelations across conceptual and political boundaries.
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The Undergraduate Religious Studies Association (URSA) at Indiana University will be hosting their Spring Symposium online March 26-27. Undergraduate students from all academic backgrounds are welcome to participate in thought and discourse surrounding the study of religion.
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Congratulations to Darius Sohrab on being elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Darius is a senior double majoring in Religious Studies and Psychology. His research interests include mental health, autism spectrum disorders, structural inequality, explicit and implicit bias, and psychology of religion.
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Cooper Harriss' recent essay is a study of eschatology in the closing songs of recent Bob Dylan albums appears in 21st Century Dylan: Late and Timely, edited by Adrian Graf, et al, and published by Bloomsbury.
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Constance Furey organized an AAR Online Conference roundtable session on teaching the 1619 Project. Together with graduate students Hannah Garvey and Steve Kaplin, she taught the 1619 podcasts in Original Sin, a College Critical Approaches class discussing racism as America’s Original Sin.
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Constance Furey’s article, Body, Society, and Subjectivity, originally published in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, appears again as the first chapter in this new volume, Religious Intimacies, from Indiana University Press. The editors describe her work as inspiration for their project.
More about the publicationOur 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.
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