On a recent Emery/Weiner School field trip, 18-year-old Noah Pacht and his classmates toured the Hare Krishna Temple and Cultural Center in Shepherd Forest and joined in a prayer service. It was Pacht ...

The Department of Comparative Religion now offers our outstanding major as a program that can be completed fully online. Students interested in completing the major online will be able to take all of ...

"Isn't it blasphemy to invent a religion?" my student asked with concern. Every semester, in the comparative religion class I teach at a local community college, I ask my students to divide into ...

Religion, philosophy and disaster Schindler’s “Response to Disaster” class will cover religious and philosophical responses to historical calamities, including a flood in ancient Mesopotamia, the ...

One of the great modern scholars, mystics and social activists, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, wrote, “Religion becomes sinful when it begins to advocate the segregation of God, to forget that the true ...