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.

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....

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....

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.

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.

Thursday, January 24, 2019, 4:30pm: James Robson (Harvard) will speak on "Filled With Meaning: Why Do the Contents of East Asian Statues Matter?" 002 Rockefeller Hall. Free & open to all. Reception follows....

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.

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....

Discussing claims of DNA editing, Religion Professor Emeritus Ronald M. Green tells WMUR, "The problems are that rogue researchers will go ahead and introduce new techniques that either harm the child or are unnecessary and start a kind of arms race of having to have the perfect child."...

Dartmouth College is honoring Meredyth Morley, Religion and Philosophy Departments Administrator, for fifteen years of service! The Religion Department faculty wishes to express its extreme gratitude to Meredyth for everything she does for us every day to keep our department running smoothly. Without her, we would fall apart! (And, of course, we love her dog, Nellie, too.)