Contribute to SIRCS


SIRCS needs your support in promoting a healthy conversation between religious commitment and democratic life. To donate to the mission of the Southwest Institute on Religion & Civil Society, please do any of the following:


  1. Go to the UNM Foundation page, and click on “Give Online” near the top. In section listed as “Enter any gift designation not in the list above” type in “Religious Studies Program - SIRCS c/o Richard Wood”. Enter the amount, fill out your other information, and click on “submit your online gift”.


  1. Write a check made out to the "UNM Foundation" and send it to RS-SIRCS, MSC 02 1610, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001; please specify “SIRCS” prominently; or


  1. Call Richard Wood (Associate Professor of Sociology and founding director of SIRCS) at 505-277-1117


We greatly value your support and collaboration, and look forward to talking with you about our work. Current needs include funding for future public lectures on the role of faith traditions in American culture; funding for courses on science & religion; funding for student scholarships for international travel seminars regarding religion and social justice; and funding for graduate student research on religion and the cultural/institutional underpinnings of democratic life.

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