Links to other websites

 North American centers and
institutes that study religion

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Centers and Institutes that study religion:

• Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life (Boston College)
• Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Center for Religion, Cultures, and Society in the Western United States (Pacific Lutheran University)
• Center for Religion, the Professions, and the Public (University of Missouri)
• Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)
• Center for the Study of Religious Freedom (Virginia Wesleyan University)
• Center for the World Religions
• Center on Religion and Democracy (University of Virginia)
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' seminaries and institutes of religion
• Encounter World Religions Center
• The Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies (Fordham University)
• Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism (University of Notre Dame)
• Hartford Institute for Religion Research (Hartford Seminary)
• The Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics (Calvin College)
• Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (Wheaton College)
• Institute for the Study of American Religion
• Kentucky Initiative for the Study of Religion (Western Kentucky University); No web site.
• The Louisville Institute
• The Pluralism Project (Harvard University)
• Religion in Canada Institute (Trinity Western University)
• The SnowStar Institute of Religion
• Westar Institute ("Home of the Jesus Seminar)
• Western Institute for Intercultural Studies

Centers and institutes that study religion in North America in addition to other topics:

• The Center for Baptist Studies (Mercer University)
• Center for Religion and Civic Culture (University of Southern California)
• Center for Religion and Media (New York University)
• Center for the Study of Law and Religion (Emory University)
• Center for the Study of Religion (Princeton University)
• Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict (Arizona State University)
• Center for the Study of Science and Religion (Columbia University)
• Center for the Study of Southern Culture (University of Mississippi)
• Center for Studies in Religion and Society (University of Victoria)
• J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies (Baylor University)
• Institute for the Study of Emotion (Florida State University)
• Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society (Creighton University)
• The Martin Marty Center (University of Chicago)
• McNamara Center for the Social Study of Religion (Loyola University Chicago)
• Salesian Center for Faith and Culture (De Sales University)
• Southwest Institute on Religion and Civil Society (University of New Mexico)
• The Leonard E.Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life (Trinity College)
  • Religion in the News, published three times a year
• Weyerhaeuser Center for Christian Faith and Learning (Whitworth College)

Major resources:

• The Pluralism Project at Harvard University maintains a data base listing thousands of associations, congregations, missions, inter-faith groups, study centers, and other religious centers at: http://www.pluralism.org/ that is searchable by state, tradition, keyword and name.
• Academic Info maintains a religion gateway containing information on world religions, religious studies, comparative religion at: http://www.academicinfo.net/

Copyright © 2008, by Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
First posted: 2008-MAR-26
Latest update: 2008-JUN-19
Author: B.A. Robinson

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