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2025 - 2026 Award Winners
Join us in celebrating this year’s award winners. The Center received many astonishing applications for our awards and grant applications this year. Congratulations to all our winners!
Religious Studies Alumni Highlight: Called to Serve
Read about Sister M. Xavier Schulze, a Comparative Studies-Religious Studies track alumni in the article "Called to Serve" by Todd Jones, published in the Ohio State Alumni Magazine.
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Spring 2026 Visiting Scholar
The Center for the Study of Religion (CSR) will continue its visiting scholar program this February, hosting Dr. James Dennis LoRusso, program director of religious studies in the Department of…
Religious Field Trips: Undergrads Visit Ohio Religious Organizations
In November 2025, 100 undergraduate students enrolled in the "Introduction to Comparative Religions" course had the opportunity to visit four religious organizations throughout Central Ohio. The…
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Associate Director, Center for the Study of Religion; Professor, Department of English
Joe R. Engle Chair in the History of Christianity; Professor, Department of History