In 2018, three faculty members from the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington received a five-year, $1 million grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for a project entitled "Being Human."
Where many academic projects understand religion in terms of traditional, well-marked "world religions," denominational histories, or belief systems, the Center for Religion and the Human makes religion itself a question. We consider where religion is implicit as well as explicit, and where discourses and practices (such as alternative socialities) might be understood as religion.
Established in January 2019, the Center for Religion and the Human is today part of the College of Arts & Sciences and continues to receive generous funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and several internal sources, including IU Presidential Arts & Humanities grants and fellowships, grants from the College Arts & Humanities Institute and IU's Institute for Advanced Study, additional support from the Arts & Humanities Council, and event co-sponsorship from several other departments, centers, institutes, and programs.
You can find our academic scholarship and creative output both in print and innovative formats online. We have a deep roster of in-person workshops, exhibits, public programming, and conversations concerning new frontiers in research and pedagogy.