Last Thursday was the annual Get on Board Day, an event where student groups from across campus set up on the Crimson Promenade and pass out information and freebies to students. If you found our tent, then chances are you took a selfie to get an REL or an Asian Studies t-shirt and you had some ironic REL buttons forced on you. But if you weren’t able to make it, watch our latest video to see what all you missed. […]
Month: August 2015
Factual Assertion or Persuasive Argumentation?
I finally got around to reading Tom Tweed’s recent Journal of Religion essay the other day, “After the Quotidian Turn: Interpretive Categories and Scholarly Trajectories in the Study of Religion Since the 1960s.” I’ve got a paper of my own in which I argue that we should turn our attention toward studying what I’ll just call the common, so I thought I should see what Tom had to say — those who advocate for studying so-called everyday religion, such as […]
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Should We Pull at Our (Funding) Strings?
The American Academy of Religion recently held a consultation with its membership about “Responsible Research Practices: A Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct for AAR Members.” A grand total of four scholars responded to the statement on the AAR’s website. A online quick search for responses elsewhere returned nothing, other than a series of posts by Russell McCutcheon. Unless members of this scholarly association are just waiting for the session at the AAR’s annual meeting where further discussion […]
Campus Tour
Who knew they made tiny squirrel GoPro helmets? Basil’s Big Adventure from UA Religious Studies. […]
How many men does it take to build a simple chair?
Did you catch this New York Times story of the “simple chair” that’s being built for the Pope to use when he comes to visit the US next month? The story opens with: […]
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“But, this is not a story about them…”
Did you catch John Oliver’s piece critiquing televangelists the other day? No? Then take a look… […]
(Re)Introducing the REL Blog
If you’re a returning student then you know all about the REL blog (right?). But if you’re new to REL then it’s worth letting you know that we’re interested in seeing you post your writing in the public domain via this REL blog — you’ll notice a “Student Blog” tab among the other sub-blogs on the site. So talk with one of your REL profs if you think you have something — perhaps originally written for one of your REL […]
“REL” is Spelled B-I-N-G-O
Have you noticed the new “Welcome Back” posters on some of the doors around Manly? What about the big Bingo cards on these posters? As many of you know, the Department and our Student Association host a number of events throughout the year, and 2015-2016 is already packed with lectures, dinners, movies, and more. So click here to print off your own REL Bingo card and keep track of all our events throughout the year. Welcome back, and we hope to […]
“Welcome Back…”
It’s become a bit of a tradition here in REL to have a Welcome Back video at the beginning of each new school year. You’ve probably seen past years’ videos recently making the rounds on our social media sites; but now the wait for this year’s video is finally over. So, as everyone settles in for another year, the REL faculty have just one thing to say: Welcome Back 2015 from UA Religious Studies. P.S. You’ll surely notice some new […]
Welcome (back) mat
Last night’s “Week of Welcome” kick off event, held in Coleman Coliseum, was far better attended than we had imagined. The Religious Studies Student Association was there, along with Profs. Finnegan, Ramey (also representing Asian Studies), and Touna. Along with a few thousand incoming first year students. So, you know those 1,000 “welcome (back) mat” buttons that we got this summer, some of which we thought we’d bring to the first day of REL classes…? Well, they’re all gone. But […]