In a letter to the editor in the New York Times, Professor Susannah Heschel comments on a recent article and clarifies the custom she originated of placing an orange on the Passover Seder plate.
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Listen to a podcast interview with Professor Reiko Ohnuma about her new book, Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination.
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Among new teacher-scholars who joined the Dartmouth faculty this year is Assistant Professor of Religion and of AAAS Vaughn Booker '07 (Religion). In 18F, he will be teaching Rel. 54, "African American Religion & Culture in Jim Crow America" (identical to AAAS 80.08). Read more about him in Dartmouth News.
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Kijan Bloomfield, a doctoral candidate at Princeton, is here this Spring Term to teach REL 19.25, Religions of the Caribbean, and REL 19.26, Global Pentecostalism.
[more]In an essay in the Public Seminar, Assistant Professor Vaughn Booker compares Martin Luther King, Jr.'s concern with the "god of nationalism" with the "new nationalism" in government today.
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