The violent destruction of a Muslim holy site in India prompted religious studies scholar Anna Bigelow to ask why some communities succumb to violence and others do not.
With holy days approaching for many religions and with Stanford’s faith communities unable to gather in person, Dean Tiffany Steinwert discusses the Office for Religious Life’s alternate approaches for worship and spiritual growth.
Stanford Dean for Religious Life Tiffany Steinwert discusses the adjustments made by Stanford’s diverse and dispersed communities of faith during the COVID-19 epidemic.
Joel Cabrita’s research explores the politics of memory and the question of who gets remembered and who gets forgotten by history. It’s a theme that has captivated her since childhood.
Stanford psychologist Steven O. Roberts found that the characteristics U.S. Christians assign to God – e.g., male, female, black, white, old, young – are the same identities they attribute to a boss.
Stanford religious studies Professor Paul Harrison talks about the latest research on the origin of Buddhism and the rise of Mahayana Buddhism, which has influenced most of today’s Buddhist practices around the world.
William Newsome is a world-class neurobiologist and a Christian man of faith. He spoke to Stanford News about how he became a scientist and the tensions, real and imagined, between science and religion.
Sughra Ahmed, who has spent most of her adult life building cross-faith and cross-cultural bridges between individuals and communities in the United Kingdom, joined the Stanford community as associate dean for religious life in November 2017.
Shaw, dean for religious life at Stanford since fall 2014, will leave at the end of the academic year to become principal of Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford.
