What We Do: Highlights of WASR Activities
🔹 15+ Religious Studies Schools
We have organized over fifteen educational schools on religious studies across Ukraine, fostering academic exchange and training a new generation of scholars.
🔹 20+ Conferences
WASR regularly organizes academic events in Ukraine and co-organizes them abroad, including the Congress Religion in Contemporary Culture.
🔹 50+ Public Lectures
Our public lecture series has featured distinguished international scholars such as Kenneth Camp (USA), Tim Jensen (Denmark), Jenny Berglund (Sweden), and Marco Pasi (Netherlands), promoting global dialogue on religion.
🔹 Academic Publishing
Since 2010, WASR has published the annual academic journal Essays on Religious Studies (Релігієзнавчі нариси).
🔹 Methodological Seminars
In 2020, we hosted a series of online methodological seminars dedicated to current approaches in the academic study of religion.
🔹 Project “Religion in Fire”
Since March 2022, we have been conducting the project Religion in Fire, collecting and analyzing information about the impact of Russia’s military aggression on Ukraine’s religious landscape.