Religious Studies

Members of the Global Neighborhood Association presented to a group of international educators at the NCAIE State Conference on March 13.

David Gushee, professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University, will speak about supporting Full LGBT Acceptance in church and society on campus at 4:15 p.m. and at Elon Community Church at 7 p.m.

Assistant Professor Amy L. Allocco, the university's distinguished emerging scholar in religious studies, will conduct ethnographic fieldwork to achieve a better understanding of Hindu practices in modern day India.

Professor Rebecca Todd Peters recently published a column on the Huffington Post and in regional newspapers about the complexity of teaching her young daughters about the history of racism in the United States and the concept of privilege.

A Feb. 19, 2015, guest lecture by Professor Michel Bondurand of the NC Consortium Paris program spoke about the way Muslims in France practice their faith.

Guest lecture by Professor Michel Bondurand, Université Paris 3 -  Sorbonne Nouvelle

Pennington's long-term research in the Indian Himalayas was extended by a grant from the American Academy of Religion to study how local Hindus respond to recent catastrophic floods