Find Your Community
Religious, spiritual, ethical, and philosophical communities bring Jumbos together across Tufts. Whether you're continuing a longstanding practice, exploring new perspectives, seeking support, or looking for a place to connect, you'll find people ready to welcome you as well as opportunities to learn, belong, and grow.
Undergraduate Students
Discover communities, programs, support, and opportunities designed to help you explore, connect, and thrive at Tufts.
Faculty and Staff
Access accommodations guidance, community events, pastoral care, and connection across campus.
Graduate Students
Find community, support, and programs that fit your unique experiences and needs as a graduate or professional student.
Religious and Philosophical Communities
Connect with communities that bring people together through tradition, exploration, and belonging.
Programs That Bring Our Herd Together
From weekly gatherings and religious observances to service opportunities, retreats, celebrations, and interfaith programs, you’ll find many opportunities to connect with others and explore what matters most. Our programs create space for reflection, learning, community building, and meaningful engagement across traditions and perspectives.
Building Belonging Together
Led by our University Chaplain, The Reverend Elyse Nelson Winger, our chaplains, advisors, and staff support the diverse religious, spiritual, ethical, and philosophical communities that make up Tufts.
Whether you're seeking guidance, community, reflection, or support, we're here to help.
The Office of Religious and Philosophical Life supports a wide range of communities with diverse traditions. Learn more about each community below.
Buddhist Community
Practice mindfulness, deepen compassion, and explore traditions grounded in awareness and interdependence.
Hindu Community
Connect with Hindu traditions through celebration, learning, community, and spiritual practice.
Jewish Community
Build community, celebrate traditions, explore Jewish life, and participate in learning, service, and meaningful dialogue.
Protestant Community
Explore faith through worship, fellowship, service, reflection, and community rooted in diverse Protestant traditions.
Catholic Community
Gather for worship, sacramental life, learning, service, reflection, and support within the Catholic tradition.
Humanist Community
For humanists, atheists, agnostics, and anyone exploring meaning, purpose, and belonging beyond religious traditions.
Muslim Community
Pray, learn, celebrate, and find support within a vibrant Muslim community connected to faith and campus life.
Other Traditions
Looking for Sikh, UU, Baha'i, Jain, Indigenous, Spiritual-but-Not-Religious, or other communities?
Gathering Together
There is always something happening! Join worship services, cultural celebrations, weekly gatherings, interfaith offerings, educational programs, service opportunities, and community events throughout the academic year. Explore upcoming opportunities to connect, learn, reflect, and engage.
Choosing Community with Confidence
We support communities that foster belonging, exploration, and personal growth. We also encourage you to learn how to recognize high-pressure or controlling groups and make informed decisions about community involvement.
Community in Action
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- Voices for Peace and Light choir performs during Pax Et Lux held at Tufts Chapel on December 4, 2024. Photo by Jodi Hilton
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- 02/05/2022 – Medford/Somerville, Mass. – (clockwise from right) Curry Brinson, A22, Alexa Libbey, A25, Evan Hu, E24, Tufts volleyball team members Anna Nachmanoff, A23, and Ariel Cedric, A22, sanitize their hands before assembling COVID-19 prevention kits for a local women’s shelter with their fellow students at Tufts University, on February 5, 2022 (Alonso Nichols/Tufts University)