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We seek to understand the symbiosis that exists between religions and other social and cultural systems, and view religion as an embedded phenomenon, one that cannot be studied apart from its surroundings.

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A recent episode of the "Now at Ohio State" podcast featured Center for Ethnic Studies affiliates Professor John Low, Professor Emeritus Lucy Murphy and Professor Emeritus Christine Ballengee…

Isaac Weiner, Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and professor in the Department of Comparative Studies, recently received a 2024 Simon Rockower Award from the American Jewish…

The Center for the Study of Religion is excited to announce the upcoming events with the short-term visiting scholar for the autumn semester.  

Meera Jo Kachroo (PhD, McGill University…

CSR director Isaac Weiner spoke at the recent Religious Diversity Leadership Summit, a national conference on religious diversity in the workplace, sponsored by the Tanenbaum Center for…

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Ph.D Candidate, Department of Comparative Studies; Graduate Research Associate for the Center for the Study of Religion
PhD Student, Department of Comparative Studies
Professor and Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Graduate Student, Department of History