The Center for Religious and Spiritual Life (RSL) helps students to live their faith, explore spiritual practices, and make meaning within themselves and the world. We strive to meet each student where they are—whether continuing within a religious or humanist tradition, seeking among them, or exploring outside of them. We work to support personal wholeness, interfaith understanding, and collective wellbeing.

 RSL Priorities

  1. RSL serves and supports the religious, spiritual, and value-based lives of the Amherst community.
  2. RSL works to cultivate understanding and appreciation across diversities of belief and identity, and mobilizes these connections toward bettering our world.
  3. RSL achieves its aims by being visible, relevant, and integrated into the Amherst community.

For detailed programming info, please refer to our RSL calendar.

Useful Links

A group of students in a circle practicing meditation
Spiritual Practices & Resources
Capin Hall on a bright fall day
Campus Facilities
A young man dancing in green light
Religious Holidays
An arial photo of downtown Amherst on a misty spring day
Area Religious Resources

Drop-in Hours

As of Fall 2023 the Center for Religious and Spiritual Life will be located in room 017 of the Keefe Campus Center. Chaplains and student staff will work out of that space on a rotating schedule, and would love to chat and connect with you! Please stay tuned for Fall 2023 office hours for specific staff members.