The REL Department is heading into November with the startup of A Grad’s Tale: There and Back Again! This series welcomes back UA graduates who have majored in Religious Studies to learn how the major has benefited them in post-graduate life. This year’s first installment begins this Thursday with Khara Cole, so be sure to join us in Smith Hall Room 205 at 6:30 pm! Khara earned her B.A. in Religious Studies and Public Relations in 2013 at the University of Alabama. Since graduating, Khara […]
Category: Public Events
Posts in this category discuss the Department’s various public events — whether announcing them, providing an excerpt from a speaker’s talk, or commenting on their significance and application.
3 Things You Should Do During #RELWeek
The College of Arts and Sciences is all about REL this week. That’s right, it’s #RELWeek. What does that mean? It means that A&S will be featuring REL on its social media accounts all week as part of its All About A&S campaign. So, here are three things you can do to celebrate #RELWeek 1. Follow us on Instagram. Just think about it. #RELWeek #AllAboutAS A photo posted by UA Dept. of Religious Studies (@studyreligion) on Oct 6, 2015 at 7:20am […]
Movie Night on the Way! REL 360 Presents: Elmer Gantry
Our one-credit course — REL 360 — is having another movie night. This time we’ll be following the antics of a fast-talking con man who’s on his way to “sell” religion to small towns across America, while combating a few troublesome love affairs along the way. […]
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Want a Sneak Peek for the Day Lecture?
As many of you probably know, our annual Day Lecture is fast approaching. This year’s lecturer is Dr. Jolyon Thomas from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Thomas put together a video to give you a sneak peek of his lecture. So give it a watch below! Hope to see you next Thursday at 7:00 in Smith 205 for the lecture. […]
Did You Take a Selfie?
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. […]
“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 […]
The 13th Annual Aronov Lecture
Back in April, Dr. Shaul Magid, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, delivered his “After Multiculturalism: Postethnicity and the Future of Judaism in America” as the Department of Religious Studies’ 13th Annual Aronov Lecture. The lecture series is named after the late Aaron Aronov — the founder of Aronov Realty and the person for whom the Department’s endowed chair in Judaic Studies is also named. Did you miss the […]
Of Good Things and Small Packages
On the weekend I saw the news stories about Columbia University’s bizarre — yes, I’ll just go ahead an label it as such — attempt to ban food services workers from, among other things, speaking Spanish while on the job. The rich irony, at least as posed by one blogger (a Brooklyn College poli sci prof) and then repeated in other online stories, was that while seeking to contain or marginalize lower class workers who might speak Spanish as their […]
#LoungeTweets with Dr. McCutcheon on Wednesday
Our next #LoungeTweets event is coming up, and this time Dr. Russell McCutcheon has answered the call of duty! He’ll be hanging out in the REL lounge on Wednesday, April 22nd from 2:30-3:30 to respond to your questions, give us a play-by-play of lounge activities, and more. Follow him at @McCutcheonSays. Follow @McCutcheonSays // Keep up with the live tweets by searching #LoungeTweets. Tweet #LoungeTweets // […]
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Honors Day 2015
Last Friday, 3 April 2015, the Department hosted our annual Honors Day ceremony, now in its fourteenth year. The event was again held in Alumni Hall, so a big thanks to the Alumni Association for letting us use their space. As usual, our event immediately followed the Arts & Sciences Honors Day Convocation in Moody Music Hall, but with time for families and faculty to mix and mingle before the awards presentations. […]