Resources

Learn to pursue knowledge and advance the conversation with civility to serve others in a non-partisan and non-denominational way.

American Academy of Religion Recommended Reading List:
https://www.aarweb.org/annual-meeting/recommended-reading

Graduate School Information:
https://religion.williams.edu/academics/graduate-school-information

Harvard Pluralism Project:
http://pluralism.org/

UCSB Capps Center:

http://www.cappscenter.ucsb.edu/

Boisi Center:
https://www.bc.edu/centers/boisi

USC Center:
https://crcc.usc.edu/

The First Amendment Center:
https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center/

Chico State Center for the Public Understanding of Religion:
https://www.csuchico.edu/cpur/index.shtml

Pew Forum:
http://www.pewforum.org/

PRRI:
https://www.prri.org/

Fulbright Program:
https://eca.state.gov/fulbright

National Endowment for the Humanities:
https://www.neh.gov/

Oxford University Press Religion:
https://global.oup.com/academic/category/arts-and-humanities/religion/

University of California Press Religion:
https://www.ucpress.edu/discipline/relmaj/religion

Princeton University Press:
https://press.princeton.edu/

Popular Religious Studies Texts for students and parents:

  • Stephen Prothero, God Is Not One
  • Elaine Pagels, Revelations
  • Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step
  • Ian Barbour, When Science Meets Religion
  • Robert Bellah, “Civil Religion in America,”
  • Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
  • Michael Fishbane, Judaism
  • David Carrasco, Religions of Mesoamerica
  • Michael Sells, Approaching the Qur’an
  • Rudolf Otto, Idea of the Holy
  • PBS, Jonestown, DVD
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Homer, The Odyssey

Coming-of-Age Stories (bildungsroman) for young adults:
Journey from home, identify a mentor, overcome obstacles, learn to respect the internal diversity and richness within your own ethnic and faith traditions so that it is safe to learn from and help others, return home a leader, share your new knowledge by adding truth and beauty in the world to reduce suffering and despair.

  • Elie Wiesel, Night
  • Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman
  • Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima
  • Chaim Potok, The Chosen
  • Malcolm X, Autobiography
  • Sandra Cisneros, House on Mango Street
  • Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
  • Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • Albert Camus, The Stranger