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The Department of Religion invites applications for a one-year Lecturer position in Asian Religions during the 2019-20 academic year (September, 2019 - June, 2020). For more information, and to apply, go to Interfolio.com.
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Andrea Hayes-Jordan D'87, MED'91, a Religion major at Dartmouth who worked in a leukemia lab at the medical school, is now professor and chief of the Division of Pediatric Surgery at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
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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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Religion major Andrew Nalani '16 spoke at a recent Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Event. Nalani, originally from Uganda, spoke about the transformative role of education at an event hosted by the foundation's Goalkeepers campaign and timed to coincide with the 2018 U.N. General Assembly.
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Professor Gil Raz has received a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for a four-year project, "Advancing Daoism: Epigraphic and Archeological Materials as Sources for Daoist Lived Religion.
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Prof. Reiko Ohnuma has been named Chair of the Department of Religion. She is a specialist in the Buddhist traditions of South Asia, and also teaches courses on Hinduism.
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Graduating Religion students Kourtney Kawano, Victoria Campbell, Christopher Huberty, and Peyton Ragsdale were awarded prizes at the Department's Commencement Reception on Saturday, June 9.
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