The third video in our second season of ar·ti·facts has just hit the big screen! This video features Dr. Finnegan and her not-so-foreign and not-so-functional clock. ar·ti·facts: A Different Place and Time with Prof. Eleanor Finnegan from UA Religious Studies. […]
On Oct. 23, a “hatchet-wielding” man attacked and wounded several police officers in New York City (Queens). Naturally, media outlets immediately started speculating about what could have prompted this man to carry out such a horrific attack. According to several accounts, the man was a recent convert to Islam who had “self-radicalized.” The New York Times headline reads: The article goes on to paint a portrait of this lone wolf who was “self-directed in his activities”: […]
Each Monday a new episode from the adventures of the Praxis Squad will be posted. […]
The next video in our A Good Book series has been uploaded and is ready for viewing! The fourth episode of our newest series features Prof. Sarah Rollens and her discussion of James C. Scott’s book Domination and the Arts of Resistance. A Good Book with Prof. Rollens from UA Religious Studies. […]
Anna Davis is a junior from Prattville, Alabama who is majoring in Geography and Religious Studies. She wrote this post as part of Dr. Steven Ramey’s course, REL 321: Religion & Identity in South Asia The geographic area of South Asia has experienced a catastrophic series of floods in recent weeks. The region of Kashmir in particular has had a difficult time recovering from the floods in part because of the aid that was provided. People died during the floods […]
Each Monday a new episode from the adventures of the Praxis Squad will be posted. […]
Did you know we have a lounge? And sometimes it has donuts? And we like Twitter? Well, we do. And sometimes we tweet about donuts in the lounge. Survive the storm? Then you need a donut at 8 am at the REL lounge. pic.twitter.com/ohBEWMfqTW — UA Dept. of REL (@StudyReligion) October 14, 2014 We’re debuting a new feature next week: Live Tweets from the Lounge. One of our faculty members will take their work out of the office and into the […]
Read More from #LoungeTweets: Live Tweets from Faculty in the REL Lounge
Victoria Truitt is a Senior at the University of Alabama studying Political Science and Spanish. She spends her free time binge-watching her favorite shows on Netflix and questioning every little thing about today’s culture. She aspires to work in politics after graduation. When I think of identity, I think of a constantly developing definition that is open to interpretation. A person’s identity is never complete because it depends not only on that person’s image of themselves, but also on the […]
The next episode in our ar·ti·facts series has been uploaded! This installment features Prof. Altman and his “filtered” photograph of the Quad. Is it Instagram or is it just old? ar·ti·facts: The Filtered Past with Prof. Mike Altman from UA Religious Studies. […]
If you’ve been keeping up with the latest developments in the REL department, you probably know that we have a brand new one-credit course this year: REL 360. REL 360 screens a select group of movies throughout the semester, and the next one is coming up on Tuesday, Oct. 21. Everyone’s invited, not just those enrolled in the course! We’ll be watching Lage Raho Munna Bhai. We’re hoping for a good turnout from students involved in Asian Studies, too. Dr. […]
Read More from REL 360 presents: Lage Raho Munna Bhai (another movie night!)