Pacific School of Religion
Berkeley, California 94709
Data last updated: May 29, 2026
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Private urban college in Berkeley
Pacific School of Religion is a private urban institution in Berkeley, California. The school is accessible to a wide range of students.
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Total Incidents (2024)
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- •It moved to Oakland shortly following its foundation, and then to Berkeley in 1901, where it has remained since, at its current location since 1926.
- •The school was one of the first American seminaries to focus on both pan-denominational issues as well as the importance of the world's religions.
- •In 1971 it graduated its first openly gay student and has remained a leader in advocating for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) people within the religious community.
- •In 2000, PSR also founded an institute specifically devoted to the study of Pacific Asian religion (the PANA Institute), but PANA was placed on indefinite hiatus in 2009 due to budgetary concerns.
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