The Study of Religion (thestudyofreligion.org), a 2011 NEH Summer
Seminar at the University of Virginia, is accepting applications from
scholars with an abiding concern for promoting intellectually rigorous
teaching and scholarship about religion. The seminar, which will meet
from July 11-29, will ask questions about religion with a group of
professors and several graduate students from the many disciplines
that have a stake in understanding religion, for the purpose of coming
to terms with the manifold changes in the study of religion that have
occurred over the past two decades. Participants will receive a $2,700
stipend for the seminar.

Scholars across the humanities increasingly turn to religious themes,
issues, and concepts as provoking questions and lines of inquiry that
are of real and abiding import. While many scholars recognize the
importance of studying religion, they lack the best tools available
for doing so. This seminar introduces scholars, within religious
studies and without, to both the history and the enormously productive
developments surrounding the idea of “religion”, in order to
understand highly diverse manifestations of human practice and belief
around the world today. For more information, visit
http://thestudyofreligion.org or email:
[email protected].
Matthew Puffer
University of Virginia
Box 400126
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Email: [email protected]
Visit the website at http://thestudyofreligion.org