UW–Madison Launches New Center On Religion

Twelve students are part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s new Center for Religion and Global Citizenry. This center comes after the Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions closed last year due to a lack of funding. Ulrich Rosenhagen directs the new center, and he says it’s about learning and spreading religious literacy across campus. “To grow together as a small group of students who understand how interreligious dialogue might work on a small level and then go out to translate that into the wider campus,” he said. Rosenhagen, a lecturer in religious studies at UW–Madison, said a public university like UW–Madison is the perfect place to house the new center. Read more (external site) This article was also published in: