About the Program
The UCI Religious Studies program offers a critical multidisciplinary lens into world religions, global philosophies, history, and cultural expressions that continue to shape the contemporary world.
Check out our wide-ranging lineup of quarterly approved courses here.
Events
News
Congratulations to two new fellows:
Kazi Adi Shakti, Independent Scholar and Artist
Fellowship project: Creative Synthesis of Negative Dialectics and…
Congrats to Karen Amavizca '26 who has won the 2024 UCI New Approach (non-animal) Methodologies in Research Summer grant, offered through the Religious Studies…
Check out Religious Studies student Aldo Palomino's ('25) comparative take on Kendrick Lamar's album "DAMN" and the problem of evil, or "theodicy."
Professor Nancy…
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Put Your Religious Studies Degree to Work
in nonprofit leadership, mediation, counseling, education, social and ecological justice, journalism, technology, business, or graduate study in law, medicine, public health, diplomacy, and more.
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Student Experiences
Students explore the wooden temple at the Jain Center of Southern California, Fall 2021 (top), Students and faculty complicate the "Religion vs. Atheism" split during Meaning of Life Lunch conversation, Fall 2022 (bottom)
