Alexander Leonardo Tamez is a senior majoring in philosophy and religious studies. He resides in San Antonio, TX. The following was written for REL 360: Popular Culture/Public Humanities. “You know nothing of my work!” -Marshall McLuhan, as himself […]
Month: May 2017
Representation, Recreation, and Preservation of the Past
Katherine Reed is an Environmental Engineering Major with minors in Mathematics and Religious Studies and is from Las Vegas, Nevada. The following was written for REL 360: Popular Culture/Public Humanities. […]
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Research Suggestions, #48: To Cover or Not to Cover?
Have you been following the new U.S. President’s first overseas trip–including stops in Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Italy…? Many news sources have commented on the fact that (as evidenced in the above photo), while in Saudi Arabia, Melania Trump, the First Lady, and her step-daughter, Ivanka, did not cover their heads (as is customary for women there) while in Vatican City, when visiting with the Pope, they did. […]
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The Limits of the Field
Only recently did it come to my attention that one of the journals in our field now seems to understand itself in a curiously narrow way. […]
Culture and Film-Making
Matthew McCullough is a junior from Huntsville, Alabama majoring in Religious Studies and Political Science. The following was written for REL 360: Popular Culture/Public Humanities. […]
Breakfast at Manly Hall
The students may be gone for the summer, but mornings around Manly Hall are far from quiet. To show you what we mean, we left the GoPro out one morning to catch some of the activity…take a look. […]
‘Meaning’ Given to Objects in Museums
Ellie Ellie Cochran is a soon-to-be junior from Atlanta, Georgia, majoring in Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. The following was written for REL 360: Popular Culture/Public Humanities. […]
The “Tyranny of Theory” is to Blame
The other day I came across this video, from a publisher advertising a recent textbook on world religions. […]
Yet Another Successful Honors Day
Since last year’s Honors Day video was such a huge success, we decided to pass around the GoPro again at this year’s event on the second floor balcony. […]
Grad Tales–50th Anniversary Style
The Department recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with a series of events and guest lecturers, and along with those guest speakers, we brought back a few of our grads to share their thoughts on how their time in REL impacted them–and how the tools they learned here are still being used in their day-to-day lives. […]