Rearview Mirror, Episode One
Have you seen our new series, of interviews with grads…? Rearview Mirror with Jennifer Nelson from UA Religious Studies. […]
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Fieldwork
Did you read what our recent guest lecturer had to say about her time in REL? […]
Grand Theft Auto Anyone?
By Seth Cox Seth Cox is double majoring in Religious Studies and Philosophy. He is interested in the interactions between practitioners of historically Asian religions and the rest of the world. This post originally appeared at Monks and Nones, the blog of REL 371. Controversy. It doesn’t matter which side of a controversy you are on, if the controversy is big enough it will catch public attention. Grand Theft Auto V (or GTAV) is the fastest game to reach 1 […]
“The Shiny Thing Out the Corner of Your Eye”
Heard Tim Minchin‘s recent address at the University of Western Australia…? […]
Time for an Eternal Return?
It’s Eliade day here at the REL faculty blog… Did you see Prof. Altman’s post? […]
The Messy Ephemera of Day-to-Day Life
By Melanie Williams Melanie printed her diploma on sheepskin using an HP OfficeJet 6500, the beast of home printers. The diploma states that she graduated in 2006, with a B.A. in Anthropology and Religious Studies. Since then she has been a cook, server, deckhand, goat milker, office assistant, and general itinerant laborer. Tomorrow she will mend the fence (it makes the neighbors better.) I don’t know what it’s like to be a college freshman today but I still like to […]
The Narrative Remains the Same
Have you read Mike Altman’s post on the recent controversy surrounding the Miss America contest? No? You should. He concludes: […]
Curios and Classrooms
By Kim Davis Kim Davis earned her B.A. in French and Religious Studies from the University of Alabama in 2003. She went on to get her Masters in French Linguistics and Literature in 2007 and a Masters in Secondary Language Pedagogy in 2010, both from UA. Kim now teaches French and Mythology at Tuscaloosa County High School. I’m a collector. The picture above is of Kenner Star Wars action figures that I have kept until I had a house to […]
Race and Displacement
Race and Displacement, co-edited by our own Prof. Simmons and Prof. Marouan (formerly of REL and now of Gender & Race Studies), has just been published. It is based on a conference held at UA several years ago. As the University of Alabama Press’s site describes it: “it captures a timely set of discussions about the roles of race in displacement, forced migrations, nation and nationhood, and the way continuous movements of people challenge fixed racial definitions. The multifaceted approach […]
Why the U.S. State Department Should Take Mike Altman’s Introduction to Religious Studies Course
Did you hear Sec. of State John Kerry’s comment (on Aug. 7, 2013) on the importance of understanding the role of religion in international affairs? […]