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  • Alumni Stories: Jane Lonnquist '88

    July 25, 2019

    Growing up, faith (and doubt) were important parts of my evolving identity. Studying religion helped me figure outmy own belief system (agnostic, unaffiliated, and humble, like so many who have studied world religions closely).Majoring in religion was originally a way to "round-out" my intended pre-med studies. Instead, I left the pre-medtrack and used my religion as the perfect lens through which to view liberal arts content that intrigued me:philosophy, science, feminism, ethics, and language. Having Professors Oden and Henricks for Religion 101 played

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  • Alumni Stories: L. Leann Kanda '98

    March 23, 2016

    I began taking religion courses at Dartmouth as a contrast to my studies as a Biology major. As I approached my senior year, I discovered that I’d taken so many of the religion courses just out of interest that I was only missing the senior seminars to take the major, so in the end I double-majored in Biology and Religion. Not only were the topics so different, but I discovered that scholars across the disciplines had very different ways of seeing the world. It was eye-opening to find out that not everyone processed the same evidence in the same way I did.

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  • Alumni Stories: John Helmiere '05

    March 23, 2016

    It was 9/11/2001, and I had just flown into Manchester for my freshman DOC trip. The pilot on my flight from Tampa to Manchester had told us we could look out our windows and see smoke rising because a plane had just accidentally flown into one of the World Trade Center buildings. Over the next four years as a Religion major, while the misuse and misunderstanding of religion catalyze war and fuel empire-building, my studies enabled me to gain a critical grasp of religion as an immensely complex and phenomenally influential force in the world.

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  • Alumni Stories: William O. Brant '91

    March 23, 2016

    When I enrolled at Dartmouth, I was one of many people who thought of religion as just "something you do" rather than as a field of study. After my first course in comparative religion, I was pretty hooked and spent the rest of my Dartmouth career studying under Professors Fred Berthold and Hans Penner, including a great trip to Edinburgh. I went on to get my Masters in Comparative Religion at the University of Washington.

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  • Alumni Stories: Steve Ripp '97

    March 23, 2016

    As a double major in comparative religion and government, I studied the two great shapers of societies around the world. History, philosophy, literature, and art history all weaved throughout my religion classes, inspiring and enriching me. Thanks to my studies, upon graduation I felt I could engage meaningfully with individuals from anywhere in the world. Studies have shown that successful leadership starts with empathy, a quality in dwindling supply in an increasingly polarized world.

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