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Research & Resources

This section provides research updates and resources, including videos, photos, publications, demographics, and the CRCC calendar of upcoming events. The initiatives listed below represent a sampling of the center's current work. Click on "All Initiatives" to view the full list.

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Working Group on Religion and Material Culture

How do objects help teach us of our place in the world?  How do we articulate our relationship to divine spirits, saints, ancestors or deified kings through material things?  How are natural objects and sites transformed to facilitate communication...

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Institute for Economic Research on Civilizations

Providing an interdisciplinary forum for ideas on the economic evolution and performance of civilizations.

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CRCC Seminar

Transnational Charisma and Traveling Spirits: A seminar to explore how religion moves across a global landscape

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Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide

Documenting the human effects of the genocide in Rwanda and non-governmental organizations work to provide healing and support for survivors

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Confucian Education in Contemporary China

Analyzing the development and impact of Neo-Confucian education in China.

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About the CRCC

The Center for Religion and Civic Culture was founded in 1996 to create, translate, and disseminate scholarship on the civic role of religion in a globalizing world. CRCC engages scholars and builds communities in Los Angeles and around the globe.

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