About Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion

Since its founding in 2012-2013, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion (BCSR) has become a preeminent global nexus for the study of religion, uniting leading scholars from an array of disciplines in BCSR’s flagship initiative, Religion in the World, which investigates the worldly contexts of religious thought and practice, examining the mutual influence of the spiritual and the material in areas like theology, law, politics, and art.
Since its founding in 2012-2013, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion (BCSR) has become a preeminent global nexus for the study of religion, uniting leading scholars from an array of disciplines in BCSR’s flagship initiative, Religion in the World, which investigates the worldly contexts of religious thought and practice, examining the mutual influence of the spiritual and the material in areas like theology, law, politics, and art.