Center for the Study of World Religions

Thursday, April 6, 2023 - Center for the Study of World Religions held its annual Greeley Lecture in Peace and Social Justice (Race, Religion, and Nationalism Series), welcoming Biko Gray, Assistant Professor of American Religion at Syracuse University to...

On March 30, 2023, the CSWR invited Aparecida Vilaça, Professor of Social Anthropology at Brazil’s Museu Nacional, to have a conversation concerning the issues of translation. There are two distinct concepts of translation at work in the encounter between...

The 2022 edition of Peripheries, the HDS & CSWR literary and arts journal, is out now! As always, it includes some of the best contemporary poets and artists, alongside the work of our brilliant HDS students. Issue five is the most experimental issue yet...

On November 3, 2023, Dr. David Yaden and Dr. Michael Ferguson, world experts in the sciences of psychedelics and spirituality, discuss Dr. Yaden's new book, "The Varieties of Spiritual Experience." Inspired by the history, philosophy, and methodology of...

In this first episode of the Faculty Focus podcast, HDS Professor Charles Stang discusses psychedelics and spirituality, early Christianity and demonology, and why Dune makes for good academic inquiry.

A discussion with Jocelyne Cesari, HDS T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding, on her recent publication, We God's People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations. David F. Holland (HDS) and...

Erik Davis’ first book, the celebrated Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, was published almost twenty-five years ago. Still in print, this cult classic of media studies continues to inform conversations about technology...

The resurgence of the “divine feminine” as a discursive concept and framework in religious studies and in popular practice in Europe and the United States, raises the question of the salience of the concept in African Religions. Although the presence of...

This event features seven poets from Gaza-Palestine who in May 2021 were working to submit their poems to Peripheries while under Israeli attacks. Five of the poets write in Arabic while two, the co-editors of the special folio in 2021, are bilingual...

Ever since Columbus reported he was hailed as "a celestial being" in 1492, stories of unexpected apotheoses have haunted the modern age—arising particularly at times of imperialist invasion, nationalist struggle, and political unrest. From Haile Selassie...