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The
Center's Vision and Activities
The Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA was established in June 1995
under the auspices of Dean Pauline Yu of the Humanities Division, in order
to coordinate research and give a more visible campus presence to the study
of religion.
Current world
developments continue to demonstrate the need for creating effective
interdisciplinary institutions and approaches for rethinking the
significance of the relations between religion and community.
Moreover, we can anticipate that new strategies developed in the analysis
of these religious phenomena will continue to result in fresh approaches to
the study of culture in general.
The
growing need for understanding religion and culture in modern contexts as
well as in ancient ones, urged scholars of UCLA to bridge the gap between
public and academia and among the academic departments related to the study
of religion. Thus, the Center grew out of an informally
organized group of faculty and students interested in religion.
This
group has held a weekly colloquium and mounted annual conferences and
evening lecture series since 1990. UCLA has also had for over
twenty years an Interdepartmental Degree Program (IDP) offering an
undergraduate major in the Study of Religion.
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