Murray Center for Community Engagement Opens

The Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement, founded on the values and vision of "Chip" Murray who was senior pastor of the First AME Church in Los Angeles for 27 years, has opened its doors. Rev. Murray holds the John R. Tansey Chair in Christian Ethics at the USC School of Religion.

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Welcome Our New Director

Please join us in welcoming Duncan Williams, the new director of the School of Religion and Associate Professor of Religion, to USC. He is also the Co-Director of the USC Center for Japanese Religions and Culture. Previously, Prf. Williams taught at the University of California, Berkley, where he held the Shinto Ijo Distinguished Chair in Japanese Buddhism.

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Jackson Appointed King Faisal Chair

Professor Sherman Jackson, is joining the USC School of Religion this fall as the King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture, and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity. He comes to us from the University of Michigan where he was the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies.

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New Realities in Catholic Education

A new book, Catholic High Schools: Facing the New Realities, by Professor James Heft, Alton M. Brooks Professor of Religion and President of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, was published this fall.

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The School of Religion in the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles may have one or more non-tenure-track faculty teaching positions in the coming 18 months, full-time or part-time. learn more