The study of world religions opens doors to global understanding, empathy, appreciation for other perspectives, and much more. Yet, in most schools, it is not part of the regular curriculum. Seth ...

A conversation with Jack Miles. Thank you, Jack, for participating in this interview. While I hope this conversation will result in greater interest in each of the beautifully designed and ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A nationally known researcher whose work changed the study of the American Midwest and spirituality movements will be honored by Western Michigan University as a distinguished scholar ...

This article examines the ways in which the status of Mormonism within academic comparative religion discourses is quite different from that which has evolved among Latter-day Saint leaders and within ...

AN effort is being made to establish in Cambridge a photographic record for use in illustrating the history and comparative study of religions. Any persons, especially those returning from the ...

(RNS) — Diana Eck, longtime Harvard University comparative religion professor and founder of its Pluralism Project, is retiring on July 1. After concluding her last class in April, Eck, who also was a ...

Eastern Michigan history lecturer Rick Rogers has been teaching "History 100, The Comparative Study of Religion" for almost two decades. But, this year, Rogers' course on the world's major religions ...

Carlisle Area School District will introduce “A Comparative Study of World Religions” course at its high school starting in 2021-22. School board members Thursday approved a motion to pilot the ...

With the generous support of Western Michigan University’s Center for the Humanities, this year (2020-2021) marked another successful year for the Realities vs. Ideal: A Round-table for the Study of ...

By encouraging the student body to wrestle with the weight of Harvard’s legacy, the University can both educate and inspire students to wield its name wisely.

The Church of the Holy Ascension, a Russian Orthodox church that is an historic landmark in Unalaska, is seen on Oct. 28, 2010. A new comparative analysis of states’ religiousness published this week ...