Centers and Programs
The Religious Studies Department is home to a number of centers and programs, and it has close ties to others. These include:
- Center for Middle East Studies
- East Asia Center
- Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
- Religion in the United States: Pluralism and Public Presence (Summer Institute)
- Walter H. Capps Center
Explore our specialized areas of study, here.
Collections
The faculty and graduate students of the Religious Studies Department have created — often in collaboration with other institutions, like the Santa Barbara Museum of Art — a number of valuable resources. Some of these are digital, others are housed in the permanent collection of the UCSB library. These include:
- Leitner Collection
- The Religious Contours of California
- American Religions Collection
- Tibetan Studies Room
- Archive of Department-Sponsored Programs
- Department History
