Here, religious traditions are explored through comparative, contextual, and thematic studies.
Welcome to the Religious Studies Program, where religious traditions are explored in all of their complexity through comparative, contextual (in specific historical or cultural contexts), and thematic studies. We offer a major in Religious Studies through the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences and a minor for students from across the university.
05/07/2026
New Fall 2026 course! ASIAN 3023/RELST 3023 "Partition: Violence, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern South Asia," taught by SAP Visiting Scholar Sadia Mahmood at Asian Studies at Cornell & Cornell University Religious Studies. Details at https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/FA26/class/ASIAN/3023
04/27/2026
Join us tomorrow, 4/27, for Suvaid Yaseen's presentation of "Listening to Archives: Islam and Politics in Modern Kashmir" at 12:15pm in G08 Uris Hall. University Religious Studies More details here: https://events.cornell.edu/event/listening-to-archives
04/20/2026
Call for applications!
Joseph E. Connolly ’72 Memorial Prizes
for undergraduate essays on religion and politics/society
Due April 24
Throughout history and across the contemporary global sphere, religious practice and ideology interweave themselves in the political and social fabric of human life. The Joseph E. Connolly ’72 Memorial Prizes are awarded to undergraduates who have demonstrated exceptional scholarship at the intersection of religion and politics or society. The Connolly Prizes seek to support, recognize, and inspire imaginative, wide-ranging undergraduate research that addresses these themes in any area of the humanities, and relating to religion(s), religious beliefs, and religious practices in the broadest sense.
Up to two prizes of $500 each will be awarded for essays by students at the freshman, sophomore, or junior levels. In addition, up to two prizes of $1500 each will be awarded to seniors for a senior honors thesis or capstone project.
Cornell undergraduates from all colleges are eligible to apply, including December 2025 graduates.
Applications must be submitted as pdf files to the at [email protected] by April 24, 2026.
Detailed instructions can be found here: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/connolly-prize
04/09/2026
Tomorrow: "Nest Upon Nest: Maulana Azad, Political Demonetization, and Muslim Persistence in India" with Anand Taneja, Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University.
🕒3p.m.
📍 120 Mary Ann Wood Dr. Room B21, Ithaca, NY
https://events.cornell.edu/event/anand-taneja-lecture
Cornell University Anthropology, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell
03/13/2026
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03/12/2026
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03/12/2026
03/12/2026
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03/11/2026
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12/18/2025
Bring a little light into these dark days. A happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate.
11/07/2025
Spring 2026 - NES 3448 Sufism, popularly understood as Islamic mysticism, is a loose name given to a broad and diverse collection of beliefs, practices and groups that range and vary across time and space. Going from a small and largely secretive group of mystical practitioners to a mainstream form of piety in the late me...