Center for the Study of Religion, Culture and Society

The noted intellectual historian will be speaking in the Numen Lumen Pavilion March 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Daniel Asia, a renowned professor of composition at the University of Arizona, comes to campus March 3-4 for programs sponsored by the Department of Music, the Fund for Excellence in the Arts and Sciences and the Lori and Eric Sklut Emerging Scholar in Jewish Studies Fund.

The associate professor of English and coordinator of the university's African & African-American Studies program led participants in a session titled "Whose Intercultural Learning? Study Abroad, Research and Scholarship: Creating Opportunities for Faculty, Staff and Students."

Allocco analyzes how divine snakes are imaged in particular myths, narratives, and South Indian Hindu festival celebrations as well as the gendered nature of contemporary snake worship and devotion.

Pamela Winfield of the Department of Religious Studies presented two conference papers at the annual American Academy of Religion (AAR) conference in Baltimore, Md., on Nov. 25 & 26, 2013. 

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Distinguished Emerging Scholar Amy Allocco was recognized as the second-place winner of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion’s Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New Scholar Award.

A dozen leading scholars of religious studies visited Elon on Nov. 17 for the inaugural Elon University Conference on Jewish-Christian Relations.

Wednesday, Nov. 13 from 5-7 p.m., join us in the McBride Gathering Space in the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life. All are welcome to celebrate as Muslims break their fast in honor of Allah saving the Children of Israel and Moses from the oppression of Pharaoh.

The symposium brought together Jewish Studies scholars who study questions involving wealth and poverty.