Indiana School of Religion

Established in Bloomington, Ind., as the Bloomington Bible Chair by the Disciples of Christ in 1910; name changed to Indiana School of Religion in 1917.

The mission of the School was to provide Biblical and religious education to, and to promote the religious education of, students who attended Indiana University. In 1953, IU established an Area of Comparative Religion, which allowed the students to begin taking religious courses for credit. In the mid-1960s, IU went on to organize a Religious Studies program and it was largely due to this move by IU that led to the dissolution of the Indiana School of Religion in 1970.

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