Department News
Religion and the Global Future - New Spring 2019 Course
New and One Time Only Course Religious Studies 137Spring Semester 2019Tuesdays 1:30-3:30
Timothy Powell: In Memory
It is with profound sadness that the Department of Religious Studies announces the passing away of our wonderful colleague, Dr. Timothy Burgess Powell, on November 1, 2018.
SACRED STUFF: Religious Bodies, Places, and Things
New Course with Donovan Schaefer this fall!
Justin McDaniel - "Classroom Trailblazer"
RELS356301 Living Deliberately: Monks, Saints and the Contemplative Life
With particular strengths in the study of Christianity, Judaism, African-American religions, Islam, Buddhism and other Asian religions, and secularisms, the department emphasizes descriptive, historical, and theoretical approaches to the study of religion.
Faculty Bookshelf
Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power
In Religious Affects Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the notion that religion is inextricably linked to language and belief, proposing instead that it is primarily driven by affects.
Feeling Modern: The History of the Emotions in South Asia
Special Journal Issue of Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society co-edited by Megan Robb with Elizabeth Chatterjee (Queen Mary, London) and Sneha Krishnan (Oxford)
Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words
Winner of the Henry J.
From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls
While European manuscripts have been the subject of numerous historical, philological, and art historical studies over the past three decades, the study of the material culture of Asian (Buddhist
Muslims Against the Muslim League: Critiques of the Idea of Pakistan
The popularity of the Muslim League and its idea of Pakistan has been measured in terms of its success in achieving the goal of a sovereign state in the Muslim majority regions of North West and No
