Religious Studies

The associate professor of religious studies was named the winner of the fourth annual Book Prize awarded by the Southeastern Conference of the Association of Asian Studies for her book "Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kūkai and Dōgen on the Art of Enlightenment."

James Ingram, who performs as the first ordained Baptist slave preacher in North America, visits Elon University’s Numen Lumen Pavilion in character on Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. to share how the Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution impacted enslaved people of his era.

Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College) will speak about the friendship and shared vision of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and her father, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, at 7:30 p.m. in the Numen Lumen Pavilion.

Visitors are welcome to observe monks create the Mandala from Oct. 22-24 inside the Sacred Space of the Numen Lumen Pavilion.

An accomplished scholar of Hindu-Christian encounters and religion in India, Professor Brian Pennington will oversee university support of faculty and undergraduate research projects that seek answers to intellectual questions about religion in today’s world.

Winter Term 2015 classes in Israel and Ghana have been canceled or postponed due to regional security and health concerns in Africa and the Middle East.

The Truitt Center for Religious & Spiritual Life invites all students to our Fall Picnic and Religious Communities Fair.

Claussen's article is included in the summer 2014 issue of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies (Purdue University Press).

The associate professor of religious studies presented "Embodying Sōtō Zen:  Institutional Identity and Ideal Body-Image at Eiheiji Temple, Japan” at the Association of Asia Studies Annual Conference in Philadelphia.