Description

Established in 2019 in conjunction with a Luce Foundation grant, the Center for Religion and the Human at IU Bloomington seeks to investigate and increase the visibility of religiously rooted conceptions of the human, believing them to be critical to community flourishing today. Working across the domains of law and the state, literature and the arts, and social and environmental justice, researchers at the Center deploy both traditional and experimental formats for scholarship and public engagement – including the publication of an academic journal and a public-facing digital forum, collaborations with artists and museum curators, and partnerships with a diverse set of community-based knowledge makers. In its next phase of work, the Center will support a wide range of new and ongoing initiatives, including projects on women and Jewish thought, religion and Indigenous knowledge, the transnational dimensions of American religion, and a collaboration with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.