Religious Studies

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.

Members of Elon’s faculty and staff, along with retiring employees, were honored May 15 for excellence and service to Elon.

Allocco’s invited talk at the University of Helsinki is the last of five she has presented about her current project, "Domesticating the Dead: Invitation and Installation Rites in Tamil South India," this academic year.

The article by the assistant professor of religious studies examines an Arabic text written by a Sufi Muslim scholar named Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī, who lived in the Sahara Desert in the 19th century. The article argues that this scholar based his family's claim to social authority on their control over powerful practices that they called "the sciences of the unseen." 

Through this two-year program, five rising juniors will participate in a combination of coursework, undergraduate research and community engagement in multifaith contexts.

The article by the associate professor of religious studies examines the iconographic innovations and textual claims of a modern Japanese Esoteric Buddhist group called Shinnyo-en. 

The discussion with Anthony Hatcher and Amanda Sturgill will be moderated by Meredith Stutz ‘16, a reporter with NBC affiliate WXII in Winston-Salem. 

Orsi, the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies at Northwestern University, spoke at Elon on April 3 about clerical sexual abuse.

Religious Studies Professor Geoffrey Claussen's new article appears in the journal Studies in Judaism, Humanities, and the Social Sciences.

The inaugural class of Elon Multifaith Scholars - Kristina Meyer, Styrling Rohr and Sophie Zinn - will present their two-year undergraduate research projects. Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts, 5:30 p.m.