The Office of Research for Religion in Society and Culture (RISC) was founded in 1998 by Brooklyn College to provide resources to the National Survey of Latino Parishes and Congregations. In its Executive Council meeting of November 1997, the Program for the Analysis of Religion among Latinos/as (PARAL) voted to move its national offices to RISC from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, where they had been located since 1991.

RISC now houses both the National Survey and the PARAL Secretariat. RISC offers its faciliites to scholars and research related to the subject of religious practice among Latinos and Latinas in the United States. In addition, to two major funded projects mentioned above, RISC also coordinate PARAL-Cuba Project in collaboration with the Department of Socio-Religious Studies in Havana, Cuba.

RISC is located at Room 3231 in Boylan Hall, the central building of the college campus. Its Director is Dr. Anthony Stevens-Arroyo.