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The Center for Interfaith Dialogue provides resources and offers programs for religious and spiritual diversity, identity, and well-being among UW-Madison students. The Center educates students about religious pluralism and promotes interfaith dialogue and cooperation.
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Map of Prayer and Reflection Spaces
Rooms on campus are available for anyone to pray, reflect, take mental health breaks, or meditate throughout the day.
Communities
We support the student on-campus experience at UW-Madison by maintaining a list of religious, interfaith, and non-religious organizations in the Madison area.
News
Events and information from the Center for Interfaith Dialogue
New Interfaith Panel on “Faith and Belonging” Teaches Student Tour Guides
UW’s Campus and Visitor Relations (CaVR) unit, headed by Dr. Kirstin DeMartino, trains a student staff of over 150 to lead tours of campus each year. For the first time this year, that training included …
August 29, 2025Center for Interfaith Dialogue Receives Augsburg University EMBLEM Grant
On Friday, August 15, Program Coordinator Talia Ivry received word from Augsburg University that the Center for Interfaith Dialogue staff and student leaders were selected as a recipient of Augsburg’s Emerging Muslim Bridgebuilding Leaders Engaging …
August 19, 2025Interfaith Dialogue Releases Video Tour of Campus Prayer & Reflection spaces
A year ago today, if you wanted to find a room to pray, reflect, or meditate on campus, you may have consulted the campus map of prayer and reflection spaces. Unfortunately, due to the constant …
October 25, 2024- More news and events
Mission
The Center for Interfaith Dialogue is dedicated to uplifting students’ religious identities, promoting interfaith understanding, and fostering a more inclusive climate for religious and nonreligious communities on campus. The Center offers programs, services, and resources to encourage productive interfaith dialogue and interaction so that students can function as citizens of a religiously diverse world.
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The Center for Interfaith Dialogue, which is part of Student Affairs, transitioned from the Center for Religion and Global Citizenry in summer 2023. The goal of the new Center is to provide resources and offer programs for religious and spiritual diversity, identity, literacy, spiritual well-being and engagement among UW-Madison students. The Center educates students about religious pluralism and promotes interfaith dialogue and cooperation. Paying special attention to international and minority students for whom religious identity is particularly important, the Center undertakes initiatives to foster respect and understanding among the different religious communities on campus.
The Center is dedicated to promoting religious identity, dialogue, and understanding. It enhances the University’s capacity to make religion a meaningful diversity category and carries out programs leading to a more inclusive religious climate on campus. It increases our students’ religious literacy as well as their dialogue skills so that they can function effectively as citizens of a religiously diverse world.
History
The Lubar Institute and the Center for Religion and Global Citizenry
Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions (2005-2016)
Our Center began as the Lubar Institute, created for a better understanding of the Abrahamic traditions and their interrelationships by encouraging discussion of these traditions among scholars, members of the traditions, and the public.
Center for Religion and Global Citizenry (2017-2023)
The Center for Religious and Global Citizenry (CRGC) had a similar mission to our current Center. CRGC collaborated with the University Religious Workers on selected projects and was a founding partner of the LOKA Initiative at UW-Madison.
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