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Learn more about next year's fellows!

Learn more about next year's fellows!

The Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce its fall 2023 and spring 2024 cohorts. All were chosen to work on research projects related to CHR's 2023-24 annual theme, "Democracy, Disposability, and Repair." Congratulations to all of our new faculty and graduate fellows! Learn more abou...

Histories, Encounters, Communities

Religions or a sense of the religious have been integrally part of the human condition from antiquity to the present. Since Herodotus in the fifth century BCE in Asia Minor and north Africa, and Bartolomé de las Casas in the sixteenth century among Indigenous Americans, the early study of religion ha...

RELI 212-001: Religions of Asia

Past Class
Spring 2024 -  Andy Daniel Thrasher   -  Section Syllabus

This course surveys religions of South and East Asia: Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and Shinto. This course seeks to describe religious and philosophical perspectives that shape South and East Asian worldviews. Particularly this course addresses the historical developmen...

RELI 212-DL2: Religions of Asia

Past Class
Spring 2024 -  Andy Daniel Thrasher   -  Section Syllabus

This course surveys religions of South and East Asia: Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and Shinto. This course seeks to describe religious and philosophical perspectives that shape South and East Asian worldviews. Particularly this course addresses the historical developmen...