Religious Studies

Amy Allocco, an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies, was a selected participant for a workshop titled "Transforming Your Dissertation into a Book" at the Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison, Wisc.

It was an oft-repeated word on Thursday: “complex.” For three professors and two students taking part in a community conversation focused on the upcoming visit to Elon University of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, there was no other way to describe the man’s history, or what it means for the university that he’ll be on campus as the keynote speaker at Fall Convocation.

Amy Allocco, an assistant professor in religious studies, presented an invited paper titled "Nagas in the Kali Yuga: Reverence, Fear, and Karmic Retribution" at a multidisciplinary workshop focused on relationships between human and nonhuman animals.

Pamela Winfield published a full-length review article entitled "State of the Fields: Recent Contributions to Japanese Art History and Religious Studies" for the peer-reviewed journal Religious Studies Review vol. 36 no. 3 (September 2010).

New Religious Studies faculty member Amy Allocco joins her departmental colleague, Pamela Winfield, in a major professional leadership role as co-chairs of the Religions of Asia section of the annual regional conference co-sponsored by the American Academy of Religion and the Southeastern Conference for the Study of Religion.

Pamela Winfield was named to the Board of Directors of the Association of Religion and Intellectual Life (ARIL) this summer. This is the governing board that has ultimate responsibility for all the activity of ARIL, which includes the publication of CrossCurrents journal, an annual summer research colloquium in New York as well as occasional programs made possible by additional fund raising activity.

Pamela Winfield presented a paper on "Ito Shinjo’s Path of Oneness: The Life and Legacy of an Ambiguous Ajari” at the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference in Philadelphia on March 25, 2010.

Pamela Winfield published a book review of Fabio Rambelli’s Buddhist Materiality: A Cultural History of Objects in Japanese Religion (Stanford University Press, 2007) in July, 2010. The book holds interest for students and scholars of Japanese religion, history, material culture, environmental studies and ritual studies.

Toddie Peters, associate professor and chair of the religious studies department, presented a keynote address titled "Accounting for Difference: Rethinking Global Markets in a Postcolonial World" at the Societas Ethica Conference in Frankfurt, Germany, on Saturday, Aug. 21.