Susan Ackerman, Preston H Kelsey Professor of Religion, Emerita provides a deft study of women's life-cycle rituals in ancient Israel in her new book, Maturity, Marriage, Motherhood, Mortality: Women's Life-Cycle Rituals in Ancient Israel.

Professor Rachel Feldman is the 2025 receipient of the American Academy of Religion Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Studies for her book Messianic Zionish in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary (Rutgers University Press)

In his new book, Randall Balmer warns of the growing erosion of the separation between church and state in the United States.

Professor Susan Ackerman is among thirty-eight members of the faculty who have been recognized for their exceptional accomplishments in teaching and mentoring, research, and other service to Dartmouth.

Professor Heschel was recognized in the House chamber after Israeli President Isaac Herzog invited her to attend his July 19 address to the U.S. Congress.

Please join the Religion department in welcoming four incoming lecturers: Emily Silkaitis, Ralph Craig, III, Tyler Feezell, and MK Long.

Please join us in welcoming the newest member of the Religion department: Professor Rachel Feldman!

"I've long been fascinated by the way Holy Week illustrates the dialectic of darkness and light," Randall Balmer, John Phillips Professor in Religion at Dartmouth, writes in the Los Angeles Times.

Sara Swenson, an assistant professor of religion, is interviewed in a BBC "Heart and Soul" episode about the legacy of Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh, who urged people who practice Buddhism to make changes to improve society.

Participants considered the many ways that karma is invoked in lived Buddhist environments, including such notions as collective karma, universal karma, karmic affinities, and karma as a discourse of relationality.