The Jewish Studies Program is excited to announce its upcoming lecture, “Who “Sees Themselves” in Jewish Children’s Books?: A Transracial Adoption Story and the Common Sense of Jewish Identity in the USA” by Amanda Mbuvi, Assistant Professor of Religion, High Point University. The Lecture will be Tuesday, April 13 at… Continue reading…
It is time to register for the Fall semester! The UNC Greensboro Religious Studies Department is excited to announce its Fall 2021 course offerings. To learn more about the courses and their descriptions check out the Fall 2021 Course Descriptions
The Jewish Studies Program is excited to announce its Henry Samuel Levinson Lecture: Antisocial Media: Antisemitism and Combating Religious Hate Online. Please join us Wednesday, February 17 at 7 pm via Zoom. Register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18GG1gUTtZD5Bm_y_V53grGOqTLiyHFnLZ31S3RszKnc/viewform?edit_requested=true
It is time to register for the spring semester! The UNC Greensboro Religious Studies Department is excited to announce its Spring 2021 courses offerings. To learn more about the courses and their descriptions check out The Religious Studies Course Descriptions.
Congratulations to Religious Studies Visiting Assistant Professor Dr. Rohit Singh for receiving the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to India for research on Public Religious Life in the Himalayas. To learn more about Dr. Singh’s work as a Fulbright scholar check out the Fulbright press release about his award.
Religious Studies, Department Head Dr. Gregory Price Grieve will give an artist talk, “Incomplete Transmission: A partial retrospective of Gregory Price Grieve’s Filmworks During the age of Covid-19” for the !Flick! Experimental Film Festival on August 26th at 7pm. Register in advance at https://tinyurl.com/flickf2020GGrieve.
Religious Studies Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dr. Alyssa Gabbay recently interviewed with New Books in Islamic Studies Podcast. In the podcast, Dr. Gabbay discusses her new book, Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima (I.B. Tauris, 2020). Check out… Continue reading…
REL 231-02: Religion in America [GHP, GMO] MWF 3-3:50pmInstructor: Dana Logan This course introduces the diversity of religions in the United States (Iroquois, Lakota, Vodou, Mormonism, Islam, and white evangelicalism) and focuses on enduring questions in American religion such as the proper relationship of religion and the state, the difference… Continue reading…
Congrats to UNCG’s Religious Studies alum, Scott Ferguson, who graduated from University of Chicago’s Divinity School this semester (Spring 2020). With a graduate degree in Philosophy and Religion, he entitled his dissertation, “The Needs of Reason: Kant, Metaphysics, and the Proofs for the Existence of God.” It showcases how people today… Continue reading…
Check out Religious Studies professor’s, David McDuffie, article in the academic blog Religion and Global Society to see how he explores the relationship between the current coronavirus pandemic and religious themes.
