A space of reflection and perspective

What it means to be human is a matter of renewed urgency today. As we are pressed on the one hand by advances in technology and biology, and, on the other, by rapid social and political change, theology and religious studies promise a space of reflection, perspective, and new possibilities.

Funded by grants from the Luce Foundation and the Office of the Vice Provost at Indiana University Bloomington, the Center for Religion and the Human supports interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research on religion which attends to these new realities while being rooted in IUB’s traditions of excellence in humanist, social-scientific and historical scholarship.

In 2018, three faculty members from the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington received a five-year, $1 million grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for a project entitled “Being Human.”

In January of 2019, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) created the Center for Religion and the Human (CRH) to administer the Luce grant and other initiatives in the academic study of religion. 

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