The College of Arts & Letters honored its Faculty Award Winners at the 2025 College of Arts & Letters Faculty and Staff Welcome Reception on Sept. 29 at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center. These faculty members were recognized for their outstanding leadership, teaching, innovation, and community engagement, as well as the significant impact they have made in enhancing curriculum and student experiences.| Department of Religious Studies
Katie Paauwe, a student in the M.A. in Nonprofit Leadership, Global Cultures, and Social Enterprise program at Michigan State University, worked in various office management, human resources, and sales coordination positions before deciding to go back to school to earn a master’s degree.| Department of Religious Studies
By Jack Meng-Tat Chia Scholars have described the reshaping of Buddhist ideas and practices in relation to Western modernity since the 19th century with| Reading Religion
The College of Arts & Letters honored its Faculty Award Winners at the 2025 College of Arts & Letters Faculty and Staff Welcome Reception on Sept. 29 at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center. These faculty members were recognized for their outstanding leadership, teaching, innovation, and community engagement, as well as the significant impact they have made in enhancing curriculum and student experiences.| College of Arts & Letters
Katie Paauwe, a student in the M.A. in Nonprofit Leadership, Global Cultures, and Social Enterprise program at Michigan State University, worked in various office management, human resources, and sales coordination positions before deciding to go back to school to earn a master’s degree.| College of Arts & Letters
This funhouse of academic disciplinarity order features shifting floors, trick mirrors, and other devices designed to scare and deceive those who teach, write, and establish our scholarly becoming within the region and shadow of disciplinarity. The post Notes from the Funhouse: <s>Disciplinarity</s> and the Haunting Aporia of Black Lived Religion in the United States appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
Dear Reading Religion Subscribers, Here’s the latest from Reading Religion, the American Academy of Religion’s religious studies review site. This month, we feature our latest “Four Books” essay and a reading list in honor of Hispanic... READ MORE The post Reading Religion Newsletter Vol. 10, Issue 8 appeared first on Reading Religion.| Reading Religion
By Karen Jackson-Weaver The opportunity to write about four books that have shaped my scholarly journey invites me to reflect on my doctoral studies at| Reading Religion
Protected: Jewish Quarterly Review to become Open Access in 2026| University of Pennsylvania Press
Jewish apologists commonly employ what has come to be known as the "Kuzari argument," which purports to show that the Jewish people really did receive a public revelation from God at Mount Sinai. Philosopher Tyron Goldschmidt formulates the crucial principle underlying this argument like so:The Kuzari Principle: A tradition is true if it is (1) accepted by a nation; and describes (2) a national experience of a previous generation of that nation; and (3) the national experience would be expect...| Jim Reilly's Philosophy Blog
As the title says. The paper has been published Open Access, so there will be no paywall to deal with. Links to the paper are included below.| Jim Reilly's Philosophy Blog
My paper "Two challenges for 'no-norms' theism" has been accepted for publication in Religious Studies. I will post a link on this blog when it becomes available.| Jim Reilly's Philosophy Blog
By David Ngong In this essay, I write about four books that have shaped my foray into African Christian theological thought. The books are My Faith as an African by... READ MORE The post Four Books on African Christian Theological Thought appeared first on Reading Religion.| Reading Religion
Dear Reading Religion Subscribers, We’re excited to bring you the latest from Reading Religion, the American Academy of Religion’s online| Reading Religion
Blaire Morseau started doing beadwork 20 years ago, first learning how to create on a loom and then teaching herself beaded embroidery. Her beaded creations even helped pay her rent when she was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico. Morseau is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University and an 1855 Professor of Great Lakes Anishinaabe Knowledge, Spiritualities, and Cultural Practices at MSU.| Department of Religious Studies
By David W. Stowe Though most of my research has involved music in religion, that’s not where I began. My dissertation was a cultural history of big-band swing music. Apart... READ MORE The post Four Books on Music and Religion appeared first on Reading Religion.| Reading Religion
Religious studies, encompassing a broader temporal scale than modernity, should include a spatial analysis of religious practice and production that is geographically and historically inclusive. This essay examines three recent titles that engage meaningfully with spatial dimensions of religion across different times and social and political contexts. The approaches taken in these works are different but offer valuable insights for those looking to understand how religious faiths and beliefs ...| Reading Religion
By Pauline McKenzie Aucoin These four ethnographic studies explore religious practice in the modern—and rapidly changing—world, while also highlighting| Reading Religion
By Nancy Menning In Los Angeles Spring (Aperture, 1986), landscape photographer Robert Adams sums up the previous century’s environmental history of| Reading Religion
Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Joseph Laycock, whose co-authored book, The Exorcist Effect: Horror, Religion, and Demonic Belief, was recently published with Oxford University Press. Get to Know Joseph Joseph P. Laycock is an associate professor of religious studies at Texas State University. He is the author of several books including Speak of the D...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Vivaldi Jean-Marie, whose book An Ethos of Blackness: Rastafari Cosmology, Culture, and Consciousness was published with Columbia University Press this September. You can read our excerpt of the book here. Get to Know Vivaldi Vivaldi Jean-Marie teaches in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department at ...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
"You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You." - Saint Augustine, Confessions 1.1.1. Introduction Prag...| sed-contra-philosophy.blogspot.com
This brief (and plausibly sound) argument is inspired by Andrew Hronich's Biblical defense of universalism (the relevant portion begins aro...| sed-contra-philosophy.blogspot.com
Welcome to 7 Questions, our series where we highlight exciting scholars in the field of religion and get to know the person behind the book. For this article, we interviewed Daniel Shank Cruz, whose book Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature was recently published with Penn State University Press. Get to Know Daniel Daniel Shank Cruz (they/multitudes) is a queer disabled boricua who grew up in the Bronx and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They have an MFA i...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
