Department of Religion

Professor Zahra Ayubi has been awarded a New Directions in Humanities Scholarship to study contemporary gender ethics in Muslim communities.

Listen to a podcast interview with Professor Reiko Ohnuma about her new book, Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

The members of the  Religion Department strongly oppose US Executive Order, “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” issued on January 27, 2017.

In opinion pieces in the Valley News and L.A. Times, Religion Professor Randall Balmer looks at the 1954 Johnson Amendment and recent proposals - primarily by the Religious Right - to repeal it.

Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, has just been presented with the Leo Baeck Institute's prestigious Moses Mendelssohn Award for her "outstanding scholarly contributions" to the study of German-Jewish culture. "It's a great honor to receive an award for my scholarship from colleagues in my field," she says. "It's wonderful."