The Institute for the Study of Religion (ISR) is pleased to announce its 2007 fellowship competition. The ISR Honors Fellowship provides one student with demonstrated financial need, and who is enrolled in an Honors College program, with the program cost, airfare, and excursion cost for a summer study-abroad program. The applicant must be committed to [...]

Baylor Media Communications Oct. 9, 2006 Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) and the Program on Prosocial Behavior have received a $400,000 grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to establish a research initiative that examines the role religion plays in prosocial youth behavior. Participating in the initiative will [...]

Baylor Religion Survey In the News Baylor Religion Survey links, Nov.-Dec., 2006 Conventional wisdom, backed by some research, has suggested that the United States is becoming a more secularized nation – one where the significance of religion is declining. But results released Sept. 11 from the Baylor University Religion Survey paint a different picture. [12/31/2006] [...]

Baylor University Media Communications Sept. 11, 2006 Media Contacts: Julie Carlson, senior staff writer, (254) 710-6681 and Lori Fogleman, director of media relations, (254) 710-6275 (Click here to download a PDF of the Baylor Religion Survey.) (Click here to watch streaming video of the Aug. 30 news conference in which Baylor ISR researchers discussed their [...]

June 22, 2006 by Julie Carlson, (254) 710-6681 In collaboration with the state of Montana’s Office of Victim Services (OVS), Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) has received a $2,975,035 grant from the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women. The grant will fund The Faith and Community Technical Support (FACTS) program. [...]

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY, Waco, TX, June 1, 2006 A new national report, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, entitled Bible Literacy Report II: What University Professors Say Incoming Students Need to Know, revealed that English professors surveyed at leading universities–including Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford–agreed that “regardless of a person’s faith, an educated person needs to [...]

Baylor Media Communications May 23, 2006 The John M. Templeton Foundation has awarded $1.7 million to Baylor University’s Center for Religious Inquiry Across Disciplines (CRIAD) to conduct a study on the spiritual beliefs and practices in China titled “An Empirical Study of Religions in China” (ESRIC). “This grant allows us the chance to produce scholarship [...]