The Religion department welcomes Sara Swenson! This year Professor Swenson will teach REL 1.11: Women and Religion: Sisters, Seekers, Sages; REL 2.01: Religions of Southeast Asia; and REL 41.07: Buddhism, Gender, and Sexuality in Southeast Asia
The scholar of Russian cultural memory will spend three years at the University of Helsinki.
As part of the on-going efforts to transition to an actively anti-racist department at Dartmouth College, the faculty of the Religion Department announce the establishment of a series of panel discussions and colloquia focusing on the intersection of race and religion.
In a Bloomberg News story about evangelicals Franklin Graham and Robert Jeffress speaking in favor of vaccines, Randall Balmer, the John Phillips Professor in Religion says, "Among a segment of the population that apparently is resistant to the vaccines, I think their voices will carry weight."
Booker will be discussing Henry Louis Gates' new PBS documentary series, "The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song," which traces the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America.
The Religion department awards the Inaugural Sperry Writing Prize to three students for the best essay, body of essays, or research paper written in any course offered by the Religion Department.
Congratulations to Professor Zahra Ayubi! Her book "Gendered Morality" has won an Honorable Mention in the Association for Middle East Women's Studies Book Award!
"What if the president had dropped to his knees in prayer for healing and reconciliation?" wonders Randall Balmer. "That silent gesture would have been the most eloquent statement he could have made in this time of suffering."
In her essay in "The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere," Susannah Heschel discusses the "wedding in a cemetery" tradition and its lessons for us today.
Congratulations to the winners of our Religion Department prizes: Tina Li '20, Sofia Carbonell Realme '20, Emma Morgan '20, Julianna Thomson '20, and Celia Pivo '20!
