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As the study of religion moved into the domain of cultural studies, there came a shift in the subjects of research.Scholars no longer focused solely on so-called world religions but also looked at the interplay between religion and culture in a broader...

Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey The following Research Reflection is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the academic study of religions. Reports of near-death experiences (NDEs) are not simply a late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century phenomenon...

In the annual Hindu View of Life lecture, Ruth Harris examines how Vivekananda conveyed the meaning of “guru-bakhti” to his female disciples, and the spiritual lens through which he sought to mold them in a male spiritual milieu. FULL TRANSCRIPT: [MUSIC...

The Center’s “Hindu View of Life Annual Lecture” evokes the memory of Dr. Radhakrishnan’s book of that title, which is comprised of his well-known 1926 lectures on “Religious Experience,” “The Conflict of Religions,” and two lectures on “Hindu Dharma.”...

Few core concepts in the study of religion are as contested as “magic.” The term has served a variety of purposes and functions throughout history, often polemical ones, and is defined in diverging ways by scholars and religious actors. Magic has been...