Welcome to the Center for the Study of Religion
The Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA was established in June 1995 under the auspices of Dean Pauline Yu of the Humanities Division, in order to coordinate research and give a more visible campus presence to the study of religion.
Current world developments continue to demonstrate the need for creating effective interdisciplinary institutions and approaches for rethinking the significance of the relations between religion and community. Moreover, we can anticipate that new strategies developed in the analysis of these religious phenomena will continue to result in fresh approaches to the study of culture in general.
The growing need for understanding religion and culture in modern contexts as well as in ancient ones, urged scholars of UCLA to bridge the gap between public and academia and among the academic departments related to the study of religion. Thus, the Center grew out of an informally organized group of faculty and students interested in religion.
This group has held a weekly colloquium and mounted annual conferences and evening lecture series since 1990. UCLA has also had for over twenty years an Interdepartmental Degree Program (IDP) offering an undergraduate major in the Study of Religion.
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The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion
Invites you to The Dr. Marvin Fieman Lecture on the Future of Religion
By PROFESSOR HARVEY COX, Harvard University
"THE FUTURE OF FAITH"
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
7:30PM - 9:30PM
Humanities Building A-level 51 
About Dr. Cox: Dr. Cox is one of the best known analysts of religion, culture, and politics in the USA. He is the Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard, where he has taught and researched since 1965. His first book, The Secular City, became an international bestseller and was selected by the University of Marburg, Germany as one of the most influential books on religion written in the twentieth century. His most recent book, The Future of Faith, will be published in September 2009 by HarperCollins. This new work presents a landmark interpretation of why Christian beliefs and dogma are giving way to new grassroots movements concerned primarily with issues of social justice and spiritual experience. Copies of this book will be available for purchase following the lecture.
This lecture is FREE and open to the public. Parking is available in Parking Structure 2 at the kiosk at the Westholme entrance off Hilgard or Structure 3 at the kiosk on Wyton off Hilgard -- in each case for $11. For more information about this event or upcoming ones, please visit our website at: www.religion.ucla.edu
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