Religious Studies

Assistant professor Pamela Winfield has published an article titled "Mandala As Metropolis" in Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Toddie Peters co-edited a volume on undergraduate research titled "Teaching Undergraduate Research in Religious Studies," which offers an introduction to the philosophy and practice of undergraduate research in religious studies and takes up several significant ongoing questions related to it.

Please join the Religious Studies Department and Elon's LGBTQ Center on Oct. 13 from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Isabella Cannon Room (Center for the Arts) for an evening contemplating art, masculinity, pain, sexuality, and perhaps redemption.

Amy L. Allocco, an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies, delivered an invited lecture titled “Gender in Naga Do?am’s Ritual Repertoire” at Stella Maris College in Chennai, India on July 25, 2011.

Amy L. Allocco, an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies, presented a paper titled “Making Mountains out of Anthills at a South Indian Goddess Temple” at a conference organized around the theme “Mountains in the Religions of South and Southeast Asia: Place, Culture, and Power” in the capital city of Thimphu in the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Jeffrey C. Pugh, the Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies and author of the newly released Devil's Ink: Blog from the Basement Office, was a featured guest on WUNC's "The State of Things" noontime program on May 17. Pugh spoke about his book.

Jeffrey Pugh, professor of religious studies, detailed the dreams and potential of the 2011 Lumen Scholars at a banquet on May 10.

Rebecca Todd Peters, associate professor and chair of the Department of Religious Studies, has published two articles this spring.

Sometimes silly and sometimes serious, but always as "Satan,” Elon University professor Jeffrey C. Pugh read excerpts from his new book Thursday as part of the 2010-11 Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture before taking questions about the way evil is described in Devil’s Ink: Blog from the Basement Office.