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Join us for the 2nd UCI Religious Studies & Producing Alternate Futures Lecture Series, featuring:

Anthony Pinn

Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University
www.anthonypinn.com

Click here to view event information and register for the Zoom webinar.
Meaning of Life Lunch, Friday at noon (starting 1/7)

All are welcome to Meaning of Life (MoL) lunch!

Noon-1:00 pm PST every Friday, starting January 7

Zoom Link: bit.ly/Meaning22

Hosted by Brianne Donaldson (UCI Religious Studies & Philosophy) and Jon Gill (Gustavus Adolphus College Philosophy)
Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England

In the new book, Professor Elizabeth Allen (UCI English) explores the symbolic significance of sanctuary in medieval English literary works - miracle collections and chronicles, romances and drama. Her topics range from a stag seeking sanctuary from the hunt, to Sir Gawain and Robin Hood, to the Civil Rights Movement in America.
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2021 Buddhist Studies Essay Prize (Betsy Tang and Kent W. Ho Award)

Congratulations to Jessica Aylen Hermosillo Pena for winning the 2021 Buddhist Studies Essay Prize (Betsy Tang and Kent W. Ho Award)! Click to view the full essay.
2020-21 Student Awards in Religious Studies

Congratulations to the student award winners, Lucyella Lu (Biomedical Engr Major & Religious Studies Minor) and Michelle Reyes (English Major & Religious Studies Minor)!
Professor Susan Blakeley Klein Publishes New Book

Susan Blakeley Klein, Director of Religious Studies and Professor of Japanese Studies, publishes new book, " Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater," in April 2021. Click to view more information.
Non-Senate Faculty Teaching Excellence - Joseph McKenna, Department of History

Dr. Joseph McKenna receives 2020-21 School of Humanities Teaching Award (Non-Senate Faculty Teaching Excellence).
Consider a Major, Double Major or Minor in Religious Studies!

Religious studies (RS) is looking for curious, analytic thinkers ready to consider the big questions of existence as they have persisted across cultures up to our present day.
Top Student Video Summaries from Applied Jainism course (Fall 2020)

Check out the top student video summaries for a possible Jain response to a contemporary ethical issues.

Students in (i)Philosophy 117: Applied Jainism(/i) had to choose and research an ethical issue of their choice, identify ethical tensions, and over the quarter construct a possible Jain response to that contemporary issue.
Virtual Conversation featuring Brianne Donaldson

Brianne Donaldson featured in the UCI School of Humanities
virtual discussion series
"Covid-19: The Humanities Respond"

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Welcome Message

Welcome to the Undergraduate Program in Religious Studies!

Religious Studies features a major and a minor which focus on the ways that different people, across space and through time, have developed their values, intellectual systems, rituals, and traditions in response to the fundamental questions of human existence. The . . .

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Knowing Life: the Ethics of Multispecies Epistemologies

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