Religious Studies

Professor of Religious Studies Toddie Peters is among the fellows participating in the Auburn/CrossCurrents annual summer research colloquium which this year is focused on reproductive justice. 

The article appeared in June in The Dao Companion to Japanese Buddhist Philosophy, which compiled more than 30 of Japan and America's leading scholars of Japanese philosophy and philosophy of religion. 

Gerry is spending the summer capturing the narratives and realities of South Indian migrants and their communities as part of her research as a Multifaith Scholar.

In this column published by Rewire News, Professor of Religious Studies Rebecca Todd Peters writes about the religious freedom issues at stake in the abortion debate. 

The senior Religious Studies major studied diverse approaches to the story of Lot.

The senior Religious Studies major analyzed the work of a national interfaith organization, Interfaith Worker Justice.

The senior Religious Studies major studied black Muslim responses to racial injustice in the United States.

Senior Religious Studies and Anthropology double major Styrling Rohr conducted ethnographic research at a Sikh gurudwara, studying sacred music, Sikh-American identity, and multifaith relations.

Her presentation, which focused on the need to change how we talk about abortion in the United States, comes on the heels of a series of abortion bans that have been passed in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio.

Papers from the inaugural scholarly meeting held by the Center for the Study of Religion Culture and Society in 2017 were recently published in CrossCurrents journal.