THE CO-INHERENCE LOGO
The Department of Religion logo, which greets visitors as they enter Gray Building, represents the symbols of the major religious traditions of the world mutually co-inhering, that is, occupying the same space while remaining individually authentic and complete unto themselves. It was designed by Professor Roger Corless and crafted at the Duke University Carpentry Shop in 1983.
The constituent symbols are:
	the Taiji Tu (Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate), sometimes called the yin-yang symbol, a circle bisected by a backwards "s"-shape, representing the indigenous religions of china;
	the Dharmachakra (Wheel of the Teaching), an eight-spoked wheel, representing the Eightfold Path of Buddhism;
	the Shri Yantra (Holy Symbol), a combination of an equilateral triangle pointing upwards and an equilateral triangle pointing downwards, representing the male power of the Hindu deity Lord Shiva and the female power of his consort Lady Parvati united in the bliss of non-duality;
	the Mogen David (Star of David), having the same form as the Shri Yantra, from which it is historically derived through Babylonia, representing Judaism;
	the Labarum, a combination of the Greek letters chi and rho (similar in form to the Roman letters X and P), the first two letters of Christos (Christ), a symbol of Christianity attributed to a vision of the Emperor Constantine;
	the Crescent Moon, representing Muhammad (peace be upon him), the Prophet of Islam;
	the equal-armed cross, representing the four cardinal directions, a symbol found in many Native American traditions;
	the Circle, a symbol of eternity in the Western traditions, of completeness in the Chinese traditions, and of the planet earth in the emerging Gaian spiritualities and the Neo-Pagan traditions.