Students and faculty exploring a Buddhist framework for understanding recent political developments in Burma.
A multidisciplinary organization, the Centre for the Study of Religion combines the faculty of the Department for the Study of Religion with an extensive network of cross-appointed affiliations with faculty colleagues whose primary research and teaching interests address religious phenomena, and who are drawn from a variety of departments and programs in the humanities, social sciences, and law. Our teaching and research strength is enhanced by Sessional Instructors, by our distinguished Emeritus Faculty, and of course by our engaged community of graduate students.
The Centre thus consolidates the vast curricular and faculty resources for the study of religion that are distributed across disciplines throughout the university, making it the largest and most comprehensive graduate program in this field within Canada, and one of the largest and most diverse such programs internationally. Current faculty membership in the Centre thus includes over 80 professors, ranging from scholars trained in a variety of specializations within religious studies, to sociologists and anthropologists of religion, historians, philosophers, psychologists of religion, and legal scholars. Sustained by such a broad representation of disciplinary and area expertise, the Centre is able to facilitate graduate learning and research in a manner that conjoins scholarly depth with scholarly breadth, and encourages the creative possibilities that attend the critical, mutually-informing encounter of diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches.