Publications

The original gift that helped to found the Center for the Study of World Religions encouraged support of research and publications. Since then, the CSWR has published the results of research by scholars affiliated with the CSWR; books by non-affiliated scholars whose work the Center has considered within its mission to support; and books and papers emerging from conferences and symposia held at the Center. 

Currently, the CSWR does not publish external manuscripts, but issues one or two volumes a year deriving directly from its work.

New and Forthcoming Books

The volume from the March 2006 CSWR conference, Ecology and the Environment, edited by CSWR director Donald K. Swearer, is available from Harvard University Press.

The volume from the April 2005 CSWR conference, Religion and Nationalism in Iraq: A Comparative Perspective, edited by David Little and Donald Swearer, is available from Harvard University Press.

Community and Colloquy: The Center for the Study of World Religions, 1958-2003, written by former CSWR director John B. Carman and longtime HDS editor Kathryn Dodgson, was published in November 2006 to commemorate the Center's forty-fifth anniversary (see the Complete Book Catalog for ordering information).

Complete Book Catalog

See all CSWR books in print, including titles in the Religions of the World and Ecology series, with purchase information.

Conference Papers

Papers from these conferences sponsored by the CSWR are available online: