Religious Studies

Kristen Rectenwald, a senior in the Department of Religious Studies, gave a paper titled "From Divine Judgment to Medical Diagnosis: Tracking Disease in British Consciousness" as part of the undergraduate research section of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature southeast regional meeting in Greensboro, N.C., on March 14.

The Purple Crown: The Politics of Martyrdom, a book by Tripp York in the Department of Religious Studies, was recently voted one of the best books of 2008 by the magazine The Mennonite.

Pamela Winfield, an assistant professor of religious studies, presented a paper, "Religion and the State in Japan: The Case of Shinnyo-en," and served as moderator and panel respondent to a panel on Orientalism and "The Pull of the East" at the annual SECSOR / regional AAR conference in Greensboro, N.C., from March 13-14.

A new book by Elon University professor Jeffrey C. Pugh interprets the thoughts of a German theologian executed by the Nazis in the final weeks of World War II. As Pugh writes, Dietrich Bonhoeffer remains relevant today, for political and religious figures continue to cite his writings – often incorrectly – in justifying their own agendas.