Institute for Religion, Education, & Public Policy

Institute for Religion, Education, & Public Policy

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IREPP's mission is to facilitate dialogue and foster deeper thinking about religion for the public good.

IREPP was founded in 2011,

to advance knowledge and understanding of the varied roles that religious movements, institutions, and ideas play in the contemporary world;

to explore challenges posed by religious pluralism and tensions between religious and secular values;

and examine the influence of religion on politics, civic culture, family life, gender roles, and other issues in the United States and in the world.

04/17/2026

Gender Matters Symposium today! Presentations, artwork, poetry, performances, interactive keynote address. Come check it out.

10/15/2025
10/04/2024

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church will be hosting an event next week that may be of interest to members of our community. Please consider checking it out.

04/02/2024

Come visit the Madigan Gallery to see our visiting Tibetan monks create the Green Tara sand mandala. 9-5 each day this week.

03/21/2024

Please join us for the Tibetan Cultural Pageant! Wednesday 4/3, 5:30-6:30 pm at the CSUB Student Union. Light refreshments served.

Through the week of 4/2-4/6, monks from Drepung Gomang monastery will be designing a sand mandala at the Madigan Gallery.

Visitors welcome from 9am - 5pm each day.

10/28/2022

Come join us Tuesday November 1st, for a Day of the Dead (Dia de los Mu***os) celebration! CSUB Student Union Patio, 4-6 pm. Food, music, and decorations.

New to Jewish Prayer? Nine Tips for Beginners 06/29/2021

If you're new to Jewish prayer, these nine tips, which include relaxing and letting your own thoughts flow, will help you have a meaningful experience.

New to Jewish Prayer? Nine Tips for Beginners Perhaps you’ve been to Shabbat services, and found them mystifying, or you've been invited to a bar mitzvah service and have no idea what to do. Here are some ways to get something out of the experience as a beginner.

'The Making Of Biblical Womanhood' Tackles Contradictions In Religious Practice 04/16/2021

In a new book, "The Making of Biblical Womanhood," historian Beth Allison Barr traces the cultural sources of patriarchy that have all but erased women's historical importance as leaders of the faith.

'The Making Of Biblical Womanhood' Tackles Contradictions In Religious Practice Biblical womanhood is a pervasive concept among evangelicals. A new book by historian Beth Allison Barr argues those ideas may be more secular than scriptural.

03/13/2021

Join us this afternoon for a moment of calm as midterms approach. Link in bio

Photos from Institute for Religion, Education, & Public Policy's post 03/03/2021

Happy Hinamatsuri. “Girls day” or the doll festival is celebrated in Japan for the well-being and good fortune of girls. Dolls dressed in Heian period clothing are put on display.

Celebrating Ash Wednesday in a pandemic? There's an app for that 02/17/2021

"In a year when so much of life has been lived virtually, Catholic prayer and meditation app Hallow has also taken the tradition online with an “AshTag” photo filter on both Facebook and Instagram."

Celebrating Ash Wednesday in a pandemic? There's an app for that (RNS) — Catholic prayer and meditation app Hallow also has taken the day's most visible tradition online with an 'AshTag' filter on both Facebook and Instagram.

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