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....

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.

Julianna Thomson '20 loves being a Religion major because of the small class sizes, Foreign Study Program in Edinburgh, Scotland, and learning about different world views....

Prof. Devin Singh has been awarded a Luce Foundation-funded grant through the Institute of Buddhist Studies for an interreligious and interdisciplinary project around the impact of technology on self and society.

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.

Eliza Rockefeller '17 has been awarded the Jonathan B. Rintels Prize for the best honors thesis in the Arts and Humanities for the Class of 2017. Her thesis can be found in the Rauner Special Collections Library....

"Where Are All The Women In Jewish Studies?" ask Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff in their July 3, 2018, Forward article that explores gender bias in the field....

Randall Balmer questions the religious right's concern with "family values" as they support President Trump's immigrations policies....

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....

Andrew Newman '74, the Religion Department's visiting Edinburgh Professor this Summer Term, will be teaching a new curse in the term, Rel. 28.05 (10A), Shī'ī Islam, exploring the history, doctrines, and practices of Shī'ī Islam....