The Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School announced on ...

With Templeton support, Professor Matthew Harris co-leads a project bringing together scholars to define a tradition that runs from astrology to Afrofuturism.What is metaphysical spirituality?

Application to the PhD program requires the completion of a master’s degree by the time of enrollment in the program. The doctoral program is highly selective, designed for aspiring scholars pursuing ...

The University of Chicago has announced the recipients of the 2026 Academic Communicators Network (ACN) Excellence Awards, which recognize scholars who excel in sharing their research and scholarship ...

Over 100 million people watched the Super Bowl this Sunday. Many viewers were surprised, though, by two commercials that ran during Sunday’s game. One of these ads, from the HeGetsUs campaign, ran in ...

Last month the United States Department of the Interior published the first volume of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report. The report confirms, in shocking detail, the ...

“Suicide is on the rise among Irish priests” is the kind of report which causes or should cause concern and a sense of crisis among Irish and non-Irish, priests and non-priests, Catholics and ...

Ever since H. Richard Niebuhr’s book The Social Sources of Denominationalism (1929) there has been evidence that religious affiliation and class status are somehow connected. In statistics published ...

Visitors to movie theaters across the United States recently had the opportunity to see one of the most popular Japanese anime sensations of the last decade. Not the Oscar-winning Hayao Miyazaki film ...

The morning after he defeated Sonny Liston for the world’s heavyweight boxing championship in February, 1964, Cassius Clay confirmed that he was a Muslim, a convert to Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of ...

I teach courses about religious ethics and film, focusing on how movies depict heroes and villains. Students in these courses learn how to analyze the moral dimensions of film to discover how popular ...