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https://raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/ The Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IUI explores the connection between religion and other aspects of American culture.
As we continue to highlight our Women's History Month articles, we will also be sharing teaching resources that go along with the article!
These resources can all be found on our website: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/resources/
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How do demographic trends shape our understanding of the religious landscape in the United States? Panelists on Religion & Demographics will discuss this and much more!
Join us Thur March 19 at 3pm.
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Free to access until March 31: "The Women's Ordination Movement in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" by @nancyross.bsky.social , David J. Howlett &Zoe Kruse, from Mormon Studies Review 9 cc: @jstuart.bsky.social
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We are pleased to share with you all one of our panels and the panelists for our upcoming Biennial Conference. Our Institutional Challenges panel will feature university presidents and provosts discussing the state of the academy and the many political, financial, and practical challenges.
In honor of Women's History Month check out a Special Issue from our Journal! Check out one of these articles, written by
Anne Blue Wills.
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Big things are happening behind the scenes in preparation for our 9th Biennial Conference on Religion & American Culture!
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For those who can’t afford my new book, here is the Introduction, thanks to Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life:
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Applications for the 2026-2027 Cohort are open, make sure to apply before April 1!
"YSAR provides a safe and supportive environment in which scholars from different disciplines come together to share ideas about pedagogy, writing, and life—both within and outside the academy." - Suzanna Krivulskaya 2023-2025 Cohort
In honor of Women's History Month check out a Special Issue from our Journal! Throughout the month we will be highlighting different articles that all focus on women's history & religion, and resources from the authors!
To explore these FREE to access articles: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Interested in learning more from our panelists or picking up where the conversation left off? Show notes, reading lists, resources from panelists, and more are now available on our website!
Explore this episode's resources: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/teaching_res...
If you are local to Indianapolis, check out this event with Ryan Burge! Ryan will dive into how religion, church life, politics and more have been changing over the last 50 years.
March 1, 4pm at TAB Presbyterian Church!
Learn more: tabpres.org/ryan-burge-t...
On Tuesday, March 3 at 12 PM ET, join us for “Representing Religion in Museums,” the second webinAAR in our “Religion and America at 250” series that engages central questions around the intersection of religion, America, and the 250th anniversary of the United States: aarweb.org/event/repres...
If you missed the live episode, Religion & the Promise of Career Readiness is now available on Youtube and your favorite podcast streaming platforms!
Find the YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzXD...
For more on the episode and our upcoming episodes: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/rel...
While applications are open for the 2026-2028 YSAR Cohort, check out some of the things our current members are up to!
From book talks and podcasts to UN forums and grant awards.
Learn more about YSAR & applications: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/you...
To encourage reuse of our data, Pew Research Center, with support from the John Templeton Foundation, invites researchers to submit proposals for new research publications that use one or more of the following datasets (collectively, Datasets) from the Global Religious Futures (GRF) project: Global Restrictions on Religion 2007-2022 dataset. This cumulative dataset includes measures of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion in nearly 200 countries and territories. Spring 2024 Survey. This dataset includes measures of religion and spirituality in 35 countries. (Comparable data was also collected in 2023 and 2024 for the United States. The downloadable materials which accompany the international dataset include additional information about U.S. data.) Dataset of Global Religious Composition Estimates for 2010 and 2020. This dataset includes estimates of the size of seven major religious groups in more than 200 countries and territories. We encourag
Please share: 2 weeks remain to submit a proposal for $3k for writing a paper using recent Pew-Templeton global datasets. We will support 19 projects. Submit by Monday, March 2.
https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/
If you are local to Indianapolis, check out this event with Ryan Burge! Ryan will dive into how religion, church life, politics and more have been changing over the last 50 years.
March 1, 4pm at TAB Presbyterian Church!
Learn more: tabpres.org/ryan-burge-t...
Thank you for tuning in to this month's episode of #Religion&! Tune in next month for Religion & Demographics, on March 19th!
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What are our hopes for religious studies? in 25 years what do we think the field will look like or HOPE it will look like?
-Rachel Wheeler #Religionand
This is a moment to think about partners across campuses, and how we can collaborate really effectively with them.
-Amy DeRogatis #Religionand
If you take seriously teaching, then you have to take seriously who your students are.
-Amy DeRogatis #Religionand
Many of our students were going into non-profit work, a lot of students who want to change the world. So we started building a consentration that intersected religion & the non-profit world.
-Amy DeRogatis #Religionand
We showed faculty and people that we were studying people, not just religion. We looked for a broad application, we were teaching students how to interpret, explain, and deal with ambiguity, but we kept it broad.
-Russell McCutcheon #Relgionand
Even small grants signaled to the university that we were trying something, so we kept trying and pushing.
-Julie Byrne on Hofstra's Religious Studies Department and their growth #Religionand
How do we chart a path forward? What direction do we go? What resources do we have in a climate of austerity?
Questions our panelists seek to discuss today.
#Religionand
Religion & will be live on Zoom very soon!
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Join us this afternoon, 3PM EST, for Religion & the Promise of Career Readiness. This episode will dive into the opportunities, challenges, and debates surrounding the shift in Religious Studies and higher education.
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Continuing the conversation around Black History Month, check out some different syllabi around Black History! These different syllabi all focus on one of the many aspects of Black history.
Find the resources here: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/resources/
Join us this Thursday at 3pm on Zoom for a conversation around one of the most pressing topics in our current moment.
Get ahead of the conversation with some of the resources provided by panelists!
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