Religious Studies

Five Elon undergraduates speak at the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion in Athens, GA, one takes best paper prize.

Kineke, former executive producer for CBS Religion & Culture and an award-winning journalist, will discuss her insights from her career on the religion beat.

“Musar and Jewish Veganism” appears in Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism: Studies and New Directions, a new volume edited by Jacob Ari Labendz and Shmuly Yanklowitz.

The couple, who met following World War II, shared with a packed crowded stories about their childhoods in Hungary, hiding during World War II and their lives after the war.

Amy Allocco has received a Collaborative International Research Grant from the American Academy of Religion to support joint fieldwork in India, a symposium, and a special journal issue with a colleague from the University of Helsinki.

John and Kristin Replogle P’18 of Raleigh, North Carolina, made the endowment gift in honor of their daughter’s transformative experience at Elon.

Geoffrey Claussen, associate professor and chair of the Department of Religious Studies, presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Jewish Ethics

The chapter is included in a volume that grew out of an April 2018 symposium at Colgate University honoring two of Allocco’s undergraduate mentors.

“The Exodus and Some Possibilities of Jewish Political Thought,” which Associate Professor Geoffrey Claussen co-authored with Emily Filler, appears in the new T&T Clark Handbook of Political Theology.

The special issue of CrossCurrents Journal is dedicated to Religion and Sex/ualities and was published by Wiley-Blackwell in December 2019.