Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University, discusses the recent tensions between the academic and faith communities.... Read more about Video: Dharma and the Academy? A Hindu Academic’s View

On Tuesday, March 8, Donald Baker, Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, delivered this year's Ahnkook Lecture on Korean Buddhism.... Read more about From the Mountains into the Cities: The Transformation of Buddhism in Modern Korea

On Wednesday, November 14, Mariam Goshadze, a PhD candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion, delivered a presentation on the politics of religious sound in Ghana's capital, Accra. Mariam's talk covered her pre-dissertation fieldwork in Ghana throughout the summers of 2014 and 2015.

To contextualize her research interests, Mariam first talked about the religious landscape of Accra. In the contemporary framework, Christianity is the religion of the majority. Among the different denominations available to followers, the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement is the most...

On Thursday, October 1, Steven Kepnes, director of the Chapel House and chair of the Department of Religion at Colgate University, will deliver the Albert and Vera List Fund for Jewish Studies Lecture at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR).... Read more about On Jewish Liturgy as Jewish Theology