The latest video in our newest series, A Good Book, is now on Vimeo. This episode features Prof. Merinda Simmons discussing the influence of Judith Butler’s book Gender Trouble. A Good Book with Prof. Simmons from UA Religious Studies. […]
Are you ready for the zombie apocalypse? No? Then #Day2014 can help. Follow the live tweets @StudyReligion. Learn more about the annual Day Lecture here. Learn more about this year’s lecturer here. […]
As I was driving recently, I listened to an episode of NPR’s “This American Life.” The theme was “How I Got into College.” Unfortunately, this post isn’t going to focus on that wider issue (interesting in its own right!), but rather on a peculiar reflection on identity that was prompted by one young man’s story in the episode. Emir Kamenica, a Harvard graduate, was born in Bosnia in 1978, […]
Yes, #Day2014 is next week. To follow the live tweets from the zombie apocalypse, find us @StudyReligion. Learn more about the annual Day Lecture here. Learn more about this year’s lecturer here. […]
Did you stop by the Religious Studies Student Association‘s table at Get on Board Day a few weeks ago? Well if you missed out, don’t worry, we got it all on tape. To show a little “slice of life” in the Department, we’ve uploaded a video with a behind the scenes look of the setup for the event. Give it a watch! Get on Board Day 2014 from UA Religious Studies. […]
Join us each Monday for another spine-tingling episode from The Praxis Squad. […]
Last year the Department of Religious Studies started a new speaker series, Grad Tales: There and Back Again. This Wednesday at 6:30 pm in the Anderson Room of the Ferguson Center (upstairs, in the older part of the Ferg) we will kick off this year’s series with recent grad Samantha Bush as our first speaker. […]
By Cara Burnidge Cara Burnidge, Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Northern Iowa, teaches Religions of the World and researches religion in U.S. foreign relations. She also tweets and, along with her students, curates a Flipboard magazine dedicated to religion in international affairs. Readers beware: this blog post is not about religion. It is a reflection on some of the issues involved in defining an object of study.* This past week, Rachel Maddow kicked off her show with […]
Yes, #Day2014 is all about zombies! Follow the live tweets @StudyReligion. Learn more about the annual Day Lecture here. Learn more about this year’s lecturer here. […]
Join the Religious Studies Student Association this Thursday, Sept. 11, @ 6 pm in Manly 211 (or in 207 if we get throngs coming out!) for “eXistenZ” (1999) — a film that fiddles with the boundary between the virtual and the real. We’ll even have some dinner there for you too… […]