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HISTORY
The study of religion has been a central feature of Loma Linda University since its beginning with the School of Nursing in 1905, and with what eventually became the School of Medicine in 1909. Between 1918 and 1962, when the university functioned on two campuses—at Loma Linda and at Los Angeles—pastors and chaplains in the area assisted the religion faculty.
When the university consolidated all of its activities on the Loma Linda campus in 1962, a Division of Religion was created. Some time later, when what was then La Sierra College in nearby Riverside became a part of Loma Linda University, a School of Religion was formed that served students on both campuses.
After 1990, when the two campuses became independent of each other again, teaching at Loma Linda was administered by a Faculty of Religion. This is when the Centers for Christian Bioethics and Spiritual Life and Wholeness began, and when the religion faculty launched its three M.A. programs.
A School of Religion, which takes its place beside the university's other seven schools, now coordinates teaching, research and service in religion on the Loma Linda campus and its satellites around the world. Through these various configurations, the study of religion has always been in the vanguard of Loma Linda University's effort "To Make Man Whole,"