The Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies (CRCS) was established in 2000 as a master’s degree program focusing on the cross-cultural study of religion as a complex and vital aspect of human experience in all its diversity and as a social identity. The academic study of religion at CRCS uses interdisciplinary approaches such as anthropology, sociology, philosophy, history, theology, political science, gender, and cultural studies, etc. Students from Indonesia and abroad, from various faith and religious backgrounds, learn about each other from and with faculty and staff members who also come from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds.