Religious Studies

Sierra Club’s “Lens on the Border” photo exhibition is part of third biennial On the Edge symposium series. This year’s symposium will examine how cultural and religious forces interact at areas of physical and perceived intersection.

The article appeared in The Commons, the new online magazine of the Association of Public Religion and Intellectual Life.

Faculty in the Department of Religious Studies presented research and participated in leadership roles at the joint annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), which took place online between Nov. 29 and Dec. 10.

The lecture, “Living with the Dead in Hindu South India,” draws on Allocco’s current ethnographic research project and was sponsored by the Asia-Orient Institute.

The lecture, one installment of the 2014 Truitt Center series entitled "World Religions: A Whirlwind Tour," has gone viral particularly in South Asia, encouraging individual explorations and multifaith discussions.

The director of the Elon Center for the Study of Religion, Culture, and Society joins the governing body of international scholarly society.

The journal’s double issue, which includes twelve peer-reviewed articles, focuses on the ethnography of India across the longue durée and includes several generations of scholars.

Robert P. Jones, CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and author of "White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity," spoke to the Elon community virtually about his most recent book.

Allocco’s article draws on more than a decade of ethnographic research and interviews with one Hindu family in South India to explore the hermeneutical issues – what Allocco calls “interpretive ambivalence” – that arise from narrative multiplicity.

Allocco will serve for a five-year term alongside Milda Ališauskienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) and lead a women's mentoring initiative among members of the Women Scholars Network.