Religious Studies

In this column published by Rewire News, Professor of Religious Studies Rebecca Todd Peters writes about the religious freedom issues at stake in the abortion debate. 

The senior Religious Studies major studied diverse approaches to the story of Lot.

The senior Religious Studies major analyzed the work of a national interfaith organization, Interfaith Worker Justice.

The senior Religious Studies major studied black Muslim responses to racial injustice in the United States.

Senior Religious Studies and Anthropology double major Styrling Rohr conducted ethnographic research at a Sikh gurudwara, studying sacred music, Sikh-American identity, and multifaith relations.

Her presentation, which focused on the need to change how we talk about abortion in the United States, comes on the heels of a series of abortion bans that have been passed in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio.

Papers from the inaugural scholarly meeting held by the Center for the Study of Religion Culture and Society in 2017 were recently published in CrossCurrents journal.

Members of Elon’s faculty and staff, along with retiring employees, were honored May 15 for excellence and service to Elon.

Allocco’s invited talk at the University of Helsinki is the last of five she has presented about her current project, "Domesticating the Dead: Invitation and Installation Rites in Tamil South India," this academic year.

The article by the assistant professor of religious studies examines an Arabic text written by a Sufi Muslim scholar named Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī, who lived in the Sahara Desert in the 19th century. The article argues that this scholar based his family's claim to social authority on their control over powerful practices that they called "the sciences of the unseen."