About
Centers and Foundations
Brigham Young University: International Center for Law and Religion Studies
Boston University: Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs
CURA is a center for research, publication and education on one of the most strategic questions in the contemporary world: How does culture (in the sense of beliefs, values and lifestyles) affect economic and political developments world-wide? Since, in most of the world, religion is at the core of culture, CURA has paid special attention to the role of religion in world affairs. While CURA's agenda is of obvious academic interest, it touches increasingly on practical policy concerns. Thus CURA has sought to communicate its findings to government, the business community and the media.
The Center for Community Progress is a new nonprofit organization that helps local and state governments seize the opportunity of reusing vacant, abandoned, and problem properties for the economic and social benefit of the communities in America's cities and towns. CSLR founding director Frank Alexander serves as the General Counsel and Director of Policy and Research of the Center for Community Progress.
Indiana University-Purdue University: The Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
The Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture is a research and public outreach institute devoted to the promotion of the understanding of the relation between religion and other features of American culture. Established in 1989, the Center is based in the IU School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights
KARAMAH: MUSLIM WOMEN LAWYERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS is a charitable, educational organization that focuses on the domestic and global issues of human rights for Muslims. KARAMAH is committed to research, education, and advocacy work in matters pertaining to Muslim women and human rights in Islam, as well as civil rights and other related rights under the Constitution of the United States.
The McDonald Agape Foundation works only with a small, selected group of distinguished Universities and within them their most influential faculty members. In this way they hope to leave a small footprint for Christ in places of learning with scholars who attain both the highest levels of scholarship and represent strong models of spiritual knowledge and faith. More than 80 per cent of their collaborative projects focus on this purpose.
The foundation sponsors the following CSLR projects and publications: Christian Legal Studies, Christian Jurisprudence II, Companion to Law and Christianity, and the Christian Foundations of Religious Freedom and Rule of Law. It also sponsors CSLR Director John Witte, Jr. as Alonzo L. McDonald Family Foundation Distinguished Professor.
New York University: The Center for Religion and Media
The Center for Religion and Media at New York University is one of ten Centers of Excellence funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts from 2003-2007. The Center continues with an endowment from NYU to stimulate innovative research and teaching in the interdisciplinary study of religion. The Center is a joint project of the Religious Studies Program (Angela Zito, Director) and the Center for Media, Culture, and History, (Faye Ginsburg, Director, Barbara Abrash, Director of Public Programming).
Princeton University: The Center for the Study of Religion
The objective of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University is to encourage greater intellectual exchange and interdisciplinary scholarly studies about religion among faculty and students in the humanities and social sciences.
The Center is committed to scholarly research and teaching that examines religion historically and normatively in its diverse manifestations. The Center aims to facilitate understanding of religion through an integrated program of support for Princeton faculty to pursue research and teaching on thematic projects, awards for Princeton graduate students to complete dissertation research, interdisciplinary seminars, undergraduate courses, public lectures, and opportunities for visiting scholars to affiliate with the Center.
The University of Adelaide, Australia: Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law, and Religion
The Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law, and Religion (RUSSLR) is the first centre or institution in Australia to study the relationship between society, law and religion. We believe in taking an an inter-, multi-disciplinary and holistic and multi-faith approach to this work.
The University of Chicago: The Martin Marty Center, Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion
The Martin Marty Center is the institute for advanced research in all fields of the study of religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School. It provides facilities, staff, and financial support for research pursued by the Divinity School faculty, University of Chicago graduate students, and affiliated scholars from around the world. Through a variety of consultations, conferences, and publications, the Center brings scholarly perspectives to bear on religious questions facing the wider public, while encouraging scholars to situate their academic questions within a broader cultural frame of reference.
University of Missouri-Columbia: The Center on Religion and the Professions
The Center on Religion & the Professions works to improve religious literacy among professionals, to help them serve a diverse public. We believe that as America grows more religiously diverse, professionals need to better understand the religious traditions and beliefs of the public they serve. Our interdisciplinary, practical and applied work centers on that mission. Founded in 2003 with a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Center is one of Pew's 10 Centers of Excellence.
University of Notre Dame: Erasmus Institute
The mission of the Erasmus Institute is twofol
- To foster present and future Catholic scholars and scholars of Catholicism
- To support them in preserving and advancing Catholic learning and higher education
The Erasmus Institute is an international center at Notre Dame that helps scholars who are cultivating Catholic intellectual and cultural traditions, as well as those who will become such scholars. Offering a variety of fellowships, seminars, lectures, and conferences, the Institute invites participants without regard to their religious belief.
University of Pennsylvania: The Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society
Established within the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) in 2004, the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) is dedicated to enriching and institutionalizing undergraduate liberal arts lecture courses and seminars in which religion is a central, topical, or thematic focus; supporting empirical "faith-factor" research on religion, especially as it relates to U.S. urban communities and contemporary social problems; and disseminating widely significant policy-relevant research ideas and findings. PRRUCS is supported in part by the Pew Charitable Trusts, and pursues certain of its advanced research and public communications activities in collaboration with other leading universities, think tanks, and research intermediary organizations.
University of Southern California: The Center for Religion and Civic Culture
The Center for Religion and Civic Culture is an organized research unit of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California. It promotes discipline-based, transdisciplinary, and interdisciplinary research related to the involvement of religion and religious institutions in civic culture. Its research utilizes both social scientific and normative methods.
- Religion, culture and values
- Religion, immigration, and cultural pluralism
- Religion and community organizing, community development and public policy
University of Virginia: The Program on Religion and Democracy
The Program on Religion, Culture, and Democracy, a non-partisan research program of the Institute, focuses on understanding the relationship between religion and democratic culture in the contemporary world. The Program seeks to find fresh ways of thinking about the role of religion in the modern world.
Towards this goal the Program hosts the LaBrosse-Levinson Lectures, produces a series of films, conducts the South Africa research project, and co-sponsors relevant publications. The Program has also funded graduate student and faculty fellows and sponsored educational initiatives within the University of Virginia.