Religious Studies

Religious Studies at the Crossroads presents "Hells, Demons and Sprits! Oh My! Envisioning the 'Otherworld' across Religious Traditions, " a panel discussion featuring faculty from across disciplines, including Dr. Amy Allocco (religious studies), Dr. Evan Gatti (art history), Dr. Tom Mould (sociology/anthropology), Dr. Michael Pregill (religious studies) and Dr. Pamela Winfield (religious studies).

Pamela Winfield compiled, edited, and wrote the Contributing Editor's Introduction to a specially-themed issue of Cross Currents Journal on “Religion in Asia Today”, vol. 61 no. 3 (Sept. 2011) pp. 286-421.

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.