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Color image of a serpent slithering over the back of a man's neck

"The photographer and the serpent handlers"--Story featuring Lauren Pond

Check out this latest feature on Lauren Pond's most recent book, Test of Faith: Signs, Serpents, Salvation! 

Test of Faith provides a deeply nuanced, personal look at serpent handling…

Color image of Martin Luther Nailing the 95 Theses to the door of the church

“Here I Stand: Life and Work of the German Reformer Martin Luther,”

GLOBAL GALLERY   The exhibit “Here I Stand: Life and Work of the German Reformer Martin Luther,” celebrates the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. The majority…
Hugh Urban

Hugh Urban Named ASC Distinguished Professor

Hugh Urban, current director of the Center for the Study of Religion, has been named a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Comparative Studies. This honorific title…

Hagerty Hall

Savko Undergraduate Awards Announced!

The Center for the Study of Religion is pleased to announce the recipients of its inaugural Savko Undergraduate Research Grant and Best Undergraduate Essay awards.

Michelle Sdao, a third-…

Lauren Pond

Lauren Pond Wins 2016 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography

For Her Color Series Test of Faith

Lauren Pond, a photographer based in Columbus, Ohio, was chosen by curator Peter Barberie to win the eighth biennial Center for…

OSU Faculty Club

MINOR TIME CHANGE - "Religion and Sexuality Post-Obergefell"

PLEASE NOTE: The Center for the Study of Religion's 10/21 symposium on "Religion and Sexuality Post-Obergefell" will actually begin at 2:30 p.m. instead of 2:00 as originally noted by some sources…

Amy DeRogatis and Isaac Weiner

American Religious Sounds Project Awarded $200,000 Grant from Henry Luce Foundation

The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded a two-year, $200,000 grant to The Ohio State University Foundation for support of the American Religious Sounds Project, a collaborative, multidisciplinary…

Daniel Reff

Daniel Reff (Comparative Studies) receives the OSU Arts and Sciences Honors Faculty Service Award

Congratulations to Professor Daniel Reff (Comparative Studies), whose work with the Honors Program was acknowledged as part of the College of Arts and Sciences annual awards ceremony on Monday,…

Sullivant Hall

New Location for Julia Jorati Lecture, 3/9/16

Please note the new location for Professor Jorati's lecture on March 9 at 7pm in 220 Sullivant Hall.

There is parking at street meters and in the Union South Garage at 1759 N. High Street,…