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Established in 2006, the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture at CU Boulder gathers a multidisciplinary community of scholars, students, and community partners dedicated to exploring the complex relationship between media and religion. Under the leadership of its new director, Dr. Nabil Echchaibi, the Center will launch a project on religion and emergent media, seeking to locate, study, and support a range of innovative media practices that are building new knowledge about religion in the world – from experimental podcasts and digital publications to media consultancies seeking to apply lessons from diverse spiritual traditions to contemporary organizational contexts, technologies, and workplaces. At the heart of this work will be a weekly seminar, already a flourishing convergence of academic researchers and media practitioners. Opening the doors of the seminar to an expanding community, the Center will host prominent public thinkers as visiting fellows, issue media subgrants through an open call for ideas, support collaborations among early-career researchers and media makers, and aim to model an approach to religion and media “centered in relationship and community rather than in the demands of particular media forms or their dominant business models.”