Guide to the University of California, Santa Barbara, Institute of Religious Studies Collection
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Guide to the University of California, Santa Barbara, Institute of Religious Studies Collection, 1970-1979
Collection number: UArch 86
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff; latest revision A. Demeter
- Date Completed:
- May 4, 2010
- Latest revision:
- Oct. 13, 2010
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
© 2009 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: University of California, Santa Barbara, Institute of Religious Studies Collection
Dates: 1970-1979
Collection number: UArch 86
Creator:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Institute of Religious Studies
Collection Size:
0.3 linear feet
(1 half-sized document box and 3 audiotapes)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Abstract: The Institute of Religious Studies was established as a researcher center on the Santa Barbara campus of the University of
California in 1967, and dissolved in 1979. The collection contains annual, review, and dissolution reports, as well as flyers
and announcements for sponsored events.
Physical location: Del Sur, University Archives, 25A (Series I); Annex 2 (Series II).
Languages:
English
Access Restrictions
None. Audio stored off-site, advance notice required for retrieval.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
University of California, Santa Barbara, Institute of Religious Studies collection. UArch 86. Department of Special Collections,
Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Undetermined. Audio merged from University Archives Recordings in 2010.
Scope and Content of Collection
From Five Year Report, folder 1, 1971:
"The Institute of Religious Studies was established as a researcher center on the Santa Barbara campus of the University of
California in 1967. It was then, and is now, the only center of its kind in American universities. Designed to coordinate
cross-disciplinary research in religion, the Institute developed as a concomitant to the Department of Religious Studies at
the University of California, Santa Barbara, which had been formalized in 1964. [...] Both Department and Institute were both
begun and sustained under the conviction that religion is a significant factor in human history, which, accordingly, deserves
appropriate attention within the state university. [...] According to its charter, the purpose of the Institute of Religious
Studies was to foster cooperation between the various fields now engaged in studying man's religious experience, behavior,
and thought."
The Institute was dissolved in 1979.
The collection contains annual, review, and dissolution reports, as well as flyers and announcements for sponsored events.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
University of California, Santa Barbara. Institute of Religious Studies
Related Material
In Special Collections:
- Academic Senate records, UArch 13. Files on institutes and Organized Research Units (ORUs), and files on religious studies
degree programs.
- Office of Public Information subject files, UArch 12. File on the institute, as well as files on religious studies lecture/symposium
events.
- Department of Religious Studies collection, UArch SC 72.
In the Main Library:
-
Mircea Eliade : a bibliography. Compiled by the Institute of Religious Studies and the University Library, University of California, Santa Barbara. Main
Library Z8258.67 .P7 1974.
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Encounter with Erikson : historical interpretation and religious biography. Edited by Donald Capps, Walter H. Capps, M. Gerald Bradford. Main Library BL72 .E5.
-
Myth in Indo-European antiquity. Edited by Gerald James Larson. Co-edited by C. Scott Littleton and Jaan Puhvel. Essays resulting from a conference held in
Mar. 1971 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Main Library BL660 .M93.
Box 1: 1
Five Year Reports of Director and Advisory Chairman of Institute of Religious Studies,
1971
Box 1: 6
Discontinuance of the institute,
1979
Box 1: 7
Flyers, announcements,
1970-1975
Tape No. A5354/R7
Robert N. Bellah, Irving F. Laucks lecture / Roots of Religious Consciousness series lecture, "Primitive Religions,"
Apr. 8, 1974
Tape No. A5991/R7
Gunnar Myrdal, lecture, "Economics and Morality,"
Nov. 2, 1973
Tape No. A6057/R7
Gilles Quispel, lecture, "Jung and Gnosis,"
Jan. 31, 1975
