The BCSR invites proposals for graduate student working groups focusing on a specific topic in the study of religion—such as ethnographic approaches to religion, African religion, poetry and religion, and so forth. The purpose of the working groups is to offer graduate students of religion a supportive interdisciplinary community with which to share work, discuss readings, and meet religion scholars. …

Writing about books on the rise of Christian nationalism in the February 9 issue of The New York Review, Linda Greenhouse featured recently-released works by David Sehat, Phil Gorksi and David Hollinger, the latter two of whom will be in conversation as part of a BCSR event happening this month. On March 23, Phil Gorski, Frederick and Laura Goff Professor …

Valentina Napolitano joins BCSR as a Visiting Scholar this semester. Valentina Napolitano is Professor of Anthropology, a Connaught Scholar and a former Director of the Latin American Studies program at the University of Toronto. She works on Critical Catholic Studies as well as on anthropology of affects, borderlands and migration, and has a particular interest in political theology, affective histories, anthropology …

The Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI) is the largest and longest running interdisciplinary conference series in the United States addressing issues of religion and race in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Since 1999, APARRI gatherings have provided opportunities for scholars and community leaders involved in work on Asian American and Pacific Islander religion to share research, exchange …