We would like to honor and acknowledge those religious studies majors and minors who have earned the high regard of the department and the University. Awarded annually to the religious studies major ...

2021 Outstanding Religious Studies Thesis Award — Anna-Elena Maheu, “Laying the Groundwork: Desert Spaces and the Sacralization of U.S. Settler Colonialism” (Honors Thesis in Religious Studies) This ...

President Joe Biden presented a Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction on Saturday to the leader of his own church, ...

We pay tribute to the late, remarkable Jimmy Carter, who died today at age 100, by recalling his historic visit to Bates in 1985 to honor his friend Edmund Muskie '36 and to praise the greatness of ...

A religious liberty advocacy organization awarded a group of residents in a Texas town this week for pushing back against a resident who attempted to have a Nativity scene outside their local ...