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.
Read More
"Religion is about community and how societies organize and structure themselves," says Religion professor Susan Ackerman '80, who majored in Religion and taught a special 250th anniversary class this Winter Term, a freshman seminar entitled "Is Dartmouth a Religion?"
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More