Department of Religious Studies

Why study religion? What is useful about the skills we learn in humanities courses? Join us for a conversation with two early career scholars of religion about how they ended up studying religion, why they think the study of religion is valuable, and how the humanities continue to be relevant beyond the academy. Our guests: Travis Cooper holds a double PhD in Religious Studies and Anthropology and lectures at Butler University. His dissertation project, “The Digital Evangelicals: Contesting Authority and

Why study religion? What is useful about the skills we learn in humanities courses? Join us for a conversation with two early career scholars of religion about how they ended up studying religion, why they think the study of religion is valuable, and how the humanities continue to be relevant beyond the academy. Our guests: Travis Cooper holds a double PhD in Religious Studies and Anthropology and lectures at Butler University. His dissertation project, “The Digital Evangelicals: Contesting Authority and