Religion Department chair Randall Balmer comments on the Roy Moore scandal and observes that "Evangelical Christianity's close ties to conservative politics are driving people away from the flock."

Assistant Professor of Religion Devin Singh's article, "Money--Flat, Broad, and Deep," has been published in The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere. Singh is currently on leave for the '17-'18 academic year, supported by a First Book Grant from the Louisville Institute, and will be a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions.

Dartmouth College Department of Religion invites applications for a tenure-track position in Asian Religions, beginning as early as July 1, 2018.

Congratulations to Susan Ackerman '80, Preston H. Kelsey Professor in Religion, who was just presented with the Elizabeth Howland Hand-Otis Norton Pierce Award for a Faculty Member Who is an Outstanding Teacher of Undergraduates by the Faculty of Arts & Sciences....

Assistant Professor of Religion Zahra Ayubi was recently honored with a Dean of the Faculty Mentoring Award for 2016-2017 for her outstanding work as a mentor of Dartmouth students.

Professor Devin Singh was recently interviewed for an episode on Catholicism for "Oxide," a monthly radio program about people recombining the elements of our economy to find better ways to care for ourselves and our planet.

In an interview with Matthew Lynch (Westminster Theological Centre, UK) for OnScript, which provides author interviews on new and noteworthy publications in biblical studies, Professor Susannah Heschel talks about her book The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany.

Devin Singh has been awarded a First Book Grant by The Louisville Institute to complete work on his first book, God's Coin: Theology, Politics, and Monetary Economy. Singh's project explores the monetary logic at work in Christian doctrine and, as such, contributes to understandings of the American prosperity gospel, Christian support of corporate America, and American constructive theology that critiques the economy.

Associate Professor of Religion and African and African American Studies Robert Baum is about to embark on a huge undertaking: writing “the first continent-wide history of African religion, with a focus on indigenous religions.”

Professor of Religion emeritus Ronald M. Green discussed reproductive rights and abortion with New York Times reporter Deborah Acosta today (February 7, 2017) in a special, live interview aired on the Times' Facebook page....