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Student religious organizations are open to the entire Vanderbilt community, offering an array of programs such as Bible study groups, retreats, and social activities. A complete list of these organizations can be found here.
The Office of Religious Life functions in an educational capacity for all students and groups, not only those who are traditionally religious, by raising ethical questions and issues of value and character among the student body.
Schulman Center for Jewish Life houses Grins Kosher Vegetarian Cafe and a large lounge for relaxing, socializing, and enjoying most Hillel dinners, social gatherings and informal discussions. This large multipurpose space doubles as a sanctuary and venue for plays, lectures, movie screenings, and concerts. The Schulman Center also houses a library containing hundreds of donated books on Jewish topics.
Department of Religious Studies
Here students explore religion’s impact on societies around the world, become familiar with the diversity of religious expressions, and develop a better understanding of how religion shapes thoughts, lives, and values.
Jewish Studies Program
Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt offers an interdisciplinary academic program that explores Jewish history, religion, language, philosophy, politics, culture, society, music, art and literature across continents.
Divinity School
This renowned graduate program offers a theological education that examines all religious traditions and our own cultural heritages through a host of classroom and extracurricular programs.
Holocaust Lecture Series
The longest continuous Holocaust Lecture Series at any American university examines ourselves and our society in the wake of the Holocaust by bringing such notable figures as Elie Wiesel, Simon Wiesenthal, and many others, to address themes from ethics, resistance, and law to gender, art, and memory.