News
July 17, 2022
LUCE “Learning with Charlottesville” Summer Institute
A cohort of 20 humanities scholars came to Charlottesville at the beginning of their 6-month journey to produce documentary work on religion, race, and democracy in the U.S.
June 29, 2022
Revisit the “Making Up Selves” Symposium
Watch on-demand the recorded lectures by anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann, classicist Sarah Iles Johnston, and philosopher of religion Niki Kasumi Clements.
May 25, 2022
Conference Revisited: Religion and Democracy on the African Continent
Learn about the past, present, and future of religion and democracy on the African continent from 20+ international scholars in Africana Studies, Religious Studies, Anthropology, History, Sociology, Law, and Politics.
April 18, 2022
RRD Lab Receives NEH Grant for Podcast on Religion and Climate
In a forthcoming ten-episode-series on the podcast, Sacred & Profane, the Religion, Race & Democracy Lab will explore how religious groups and movements have understood human interaction with the natural world and addressed environmental issues.
April 1, 2022
Federico Cuatlacuatl’s Mobile Cinema Makes Art and Culture Accessible to All
Last spring, RRD Lab Faculty Partner Federico Cuatlacuatl traded big plans for "small" ones and, in the process, achieved a level of community engagement of which he had previously only dreamed.
January 27, 2022
Who Wrote the Bible? This UVA Professor Goes on a Passion Quest for Answers
The Religion, Race & Democracy Lab Co-Director's long-standing love for the Bible has led her to author an audio book that explores intriguing questions about the sacred text.
January 20, 2022
Request for Applications: “Learning with Charlottesville” Summer Institute
The University of Virginia’s Religion, Race & Democracy Lab and the Memory Project invites emerging and mid-career scholars of religion, and those in related humanities fields, from across the United States to collaborate with local scholars, artists, and journalists, for a summer institute in Charlottesville, Virginia.
December 7, 2021
“Writing the Bible: Origins of the Old Testament” Debuts on Audible
For a book as widely known, studied, and distributed as the Bible, the question of authorship would have been sorted out by now. But the question is more complex (and fascinating) than it seems. Why?
November 29, 2021
$250,000 Grant Funds Collaboration to Rethink “American Religions”
A novel collaboration between UVA Democracy Initiative’s Religion, Race & Democracy Lab and Memory Project, that will advance public knowledge on the topic of race, justice, and religion in America, and also shape the field of the study of American religion, has received $250,000 from the Henry Luce Foundation.
October 18, 2021
Call for First-Generation Graduate & Undergraduate Student Research Proposals—Deadline Extended to 12/6
The Religion, Race & Democracy Lab seeks story ideas from first-generation students on how religion and race contribute to, challenge, and complicate democratic societies.
September 9, 2021
Introducing Rasquache Mobile Cinema
Rasquache Mobile Cinema is a traveling cinema-bicycle that uses films to spark conversations about race and migration across the U.S. and Mexico border.
May 18, 2021
God $ Green on Extinction Rebellion Radio
The Lab's documentary God $ Green: An Unholy Alliance was the featured topic on Extinction Rebellion Radio, a program dedicated to covering weekly news and stories on the climate crisis through conversation, interviews and expert perspectives.