Center for the Study of Religion, Culture and Society

In conjunction with The Religious Body Imagined symposium, an exhibition of Christian, Hindu and Buddhist figures will be on view in Numen Lumen Pavilion with an opening reception on Friday, Feb. 8, beginning at 4:30 p.m.

The keynote address for the "Religious Body Reimagined" symposium will be given by S. Brent Plate and sponsored by the Elon Center for the Study of Religion, Culture and Society. 

The assistant professor of religious studies will use the support from the National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to support her work on a book manuscript. 

Claussen’s article is included in Virtue Ethics, edited by Tom Angier (Routledge, 2018).

Several Elon Center for Engaged Learning representatives presented at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) 2018 conference, including scholars from multiple CEL research seminars.

Members of the Religious Studies department presented their research and participated in the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature in Denver, CO, Nov. 17-20.

Religious Studies Professor Geoffrey Claussen's new article appears in the journal Interreligious Studies and Interreligious Theology.

Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, director of the Center for Research on Global Engagement and professor of psychology, offered insights from research with colleagues from six institutions. 

The issues raised by the new book by Elon Professor Toddie Peters, "Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice," served as a focus for the Oct. 29 panel discussion. 

See the acclaimed documentary that gives audiences unprecedented access to different actors in the Vatican including Pope Francis himself. Screening in Turner Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m.