Welcome to the Religion Research Hub!

Over the course of the last several years, there has been a renewal of attention to religion’s public significance. Religion has become a more important dimension of national and international politics, an increasingly contentious cultural force, and the subject of sustained debate within multiple public spheres. Spurred by the prominence of religion in American public life and more recently by the religious dimensions of war and terrorism—as well as by the religious aspects of cultural conflict and social change, humanitarian action and post-conflict reconciliation, immigration and international relations—there has been a resurgence of interest in religion across a wide range of academic disciplines. The SSRC seeks to critically expand on and deepen this renewed attention to religion’s significance, both within the social sciences and beyond.