Prof. McCutcheon’s Fall 2015 REL 237 will introduce and explore the application of social theory in the study of religion by reading and then applying the work of Prof. Bruce Lincoln, at the University of Chicago (and REL’s onetime Aronov Lecturer), to a specific episode of what we will come to term “affinity and estrangement” as represented in Dennis Covington’s well-known book, Salvation on Sand Mountain. The class is limited to 30 students. […]
Month: March 2015
See you this Friday around noon
Basil’s in the know. […]
It’s Time for Advising, Part 2
Come back next Monday for another dispatch from The Praxis Squad […]
A Good Book with Prof. Loewen
The seventh episode in our A Good Book series is now on Vimeo! This video features our newest faculty member, Prof. Nathan Loewen and his discussion of Jacques Derrida’s book Monolingualism of the Other. Want to learn more about Prof. Loewen? Check out an interview blog post here, and a video here. A Good Book with Prof. Loewen from UA Religious Studies. […]
Out in the Open: We All Fit a Certain Category
Sarah Griswold is a junior double majoring in Mathematics and Religious Studies. She spends her “free time” analyzing her favorite shows on Netflix, which of course winds up ruining them. She is currently enrolled in an independent study with Dr. Simmons where she is analyzing the popular HBO series “True Detective.” “You know I’ve seen all the different types. We all fit a certain category.” – Marty Hart One of the great things about the Religious Studies department here at UA […]
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Honors Day is Coming Soon
Yes, it’s time to put the banners up! And that can only mean one thing: Honors Day is right around the corner. So we hope you’ll join us — all REL majors, minors and Judaic Studies minors are invited to the Department’s Honors Day reception, along with their guests. As always, it takes place immediately after the A&S Convocation, on Friday, April 3. The College’s annual event goes from 10 am until about 11:30 so we’ll see you for the […]
It’s Time for Advising, Part 1
What advice will our Undergraduate Advisor offer…? Tune in next Monday to find out. […]
“Tonight We May be Showmen; Tomorrow We’ll be Servicing Your Cars”
A few days ago I was online discussing with a grad of our Department how advertising works in media — i.e., how it is not difficult to understand the content of, say, a newspaper, website, or television as simply serving the role of bringing the eyes of readers or viewers (in fact, let’s just call them consumers) to the ads which finance the medium in the first place. (In this day and age of cable fees and Netflix or Hulu […]
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On The Passive Voice and Nonexistent Agency
Thomas J. Whitley is a Ph.D. Candidate in Religions of Western Antiquity at Florida State University where he studies sexual slander and identity formation in early Christianity. You can read more of his work on his blog and you can follow him on Twitter for the daily minutiae of his life @thomaswhitley. “C.I.A. Funds Found Their Way Into Al Qaeda Coffers” — so read the New York Times notification I received Saturday. The circumlocution was amusing. “Found their way” — […]
Advising Season Soon Arrives
Now that spring break is here, we know our students have only one thing on their minds — Fall classes! So, when classes resume after the break, we will begin our advising period in the Department; REL majors and minors, and JS minors, will need to set up a meeting with Dr. Trost (filling in for Dr. Jacobs, who is on sabbatical this semester) on the clipboard in the main office. Wondering what classes we’re offering? Well take a look […]