A portal to the liberal arts.
Randall Balmer and Lacey Jones '16 discussed their collaboration on Prof. Balmer's television documentary exploring the relationship between the Orthodox Church and Alaska Natives at a recent Call to Lead campaign event.
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This year, Japanese scholar Emily Simpson will teach courses in Women and Religion in Japan (REL 19.29, 19F), Religions of Japan (REL 19.31, 20W), and Shinto: Foundations, Festivals, & Fox Shrines (REL 19.32, 20S). Courses are open to all students.
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Assistant Professor of Religion Zahra Ayubi has received a grant from the Greenwall Foundation's Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics to continue her research on the intersections of bioethics, gender, and religion within the context of Islam.
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Congratulations to the Religion majors who were awarded prizes at the Department's Commencement Reception. Monika Gabriele and Makena Kauhane were awarded the Dickinson Senior Writing Prize in Religion, and Marshall Harris was awarded the Hans H. Penner Prize in the Study of Religion.
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J. Edward Wright returns to the Religion Department this Spring Term for his 7th teaching term at Dartmouth! In 19S, he'll be teaching REL 4: Religions of Israel: The Hebrew Bible, and REL 57.06: History of Heaven.
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Religion lies at the core of all cultures and societies. Many students find that a major, modified major, or minor in Religion is an excellent choice of concentration in the liberal arts.
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On Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at 4:30pm in Moore B03, Edward Slingerland will give the James & David Orr Memorial Lecture on Culture & Religion at Dartmouth, "Mind, Body, and the Myth of Holism in Early China." Open to all. Reception follows.
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At the 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. employee breakfast, Assistant Professor of Religion Vaughn Booker Jr. '07 drew on the words of King and fellow civil rights leaders James Lawson and Mary Lou Williams to talk about the transformative value and dignity of work.
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Why is money so important to us? In his recent TED-type talk in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Prof. Devin Singh points to Christianity for an explanation.
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Nancy Frankenberry, John Phillips Professor in Religion Emeritus, has published “The Fate of Radical Empiricism and the Future of Religious Naturalism” in Pragmatism and Naturalism: Scientific and Social Inquiry After Representationalism, just published by Columbia Univ. Pr.
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