Social Science Research Council

With initial support from the Luce Foundation, the SSRC aims to strengthen both scholarly and public attention to religion’s place in international affairs. Working with researchers and practitioners to catalyze new thinking and to construct new agendas for research, the SSRC seeks to foster innovative engagements with prevailing approaches to the study of religion in international perspective. The project supports the integration of work on religion into the teaching and research of schools of international and public affairs, and aims to build interdisciplinary networks, strengthening connections between a diverse range of projects and initiatives. A Working Group on Religion, Secularism, and International Affairs analyzes the intellectual neglect of religion and the power of secularism in the arena of international affairs, while an Advisory Committee on Religion and International Affairs seeks to draw on and further develop a renewed attention to religion in both schools of international affairs and the broader world of public policy.