 The School of Religious Studies is the home to McGill's Initiative in Globalization and the World's Religions and the Birks Forum on the World's Religions and Public Policy.It is affiliated with the Montreal School of Theology.In 2013 a landmark gift from the Barbara and Patrick Keenan Foundation launched a series of major new developments including the establishment of the Keenan Chair in Interfaith Studies and a new flagship course "World Religions and the Cultures They Create" (RELG 208).