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Beloved Faculty Member Accepts New Position
Tuesday, April 3, 2018Beloved faculty member Hwansoo Ilmee Kim has accepted an offer at Yale. Yale has created a new position in Korean Studies. An alumnus donated $3 million for an endowment specifically for Korean studies. There is also an endowment of $1.5 million in the Department of Religious Studies that can be... Read More »
Dear Old Duke: The Meyers
Wednesday, February 14, 2018Dear Old Duke: The Meyers By Bre Bradham | 02/13/2018 Dear Old Duke will be a multi-part photo essay series made up of photographs from decades past pulled from The Chronicle's files and re-created with faculty members and administrators still at the University. What's changed... Read More »
David Morgan: "Images at Work": The Material Culture of Enchantment
Thursday, February 1, 2018https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLZpz_ygxfM&feature=youtu.be
Entanglement and the Future of Religious Studies
Tuesday, December 12, 2017Congratulations to David Morgan, Leela Prasad, Mark Brettler and Hwansoo Kim for the recently published article: "Entanglement and the Future of Religious Studies" https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/entanglement-future-religious-studies/ Entanglement and the Future of Religious... Read More »
Professor Marc Brettler featured on Duke's Faculty Reads
Thursday, November 16, 2017https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-OWaNF5f98&feature=youtu.be
Congratulations to Professor Richard Jaffe and his Mindfulness Across the Disciplines initiative member
Friday, November 10, 2017Congratulations to Richard Jaffe and his initiative's members, Holly Rogers (CAPS), Denise Comer (Thompson Writing Program), and Moria Smolski (Psychiatry), Mindfulness Across the Disciplines, having been awarded an Intellectual Planning Grant for 2018.
Professor Mona Hassan's book: Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History will receive award
Wednesday, October 11, 2017Congratulations to Professor Mona Hassan! We are delighted to announce that Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History, has been selected to receive the AAR's (American Academy of Religion) Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the Historical Studies category.
Position Announcement - Early Christianity
Monday, September 18, 2017Position Announcement Early Christianity The Department of Religious Studies within Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University invites applications and nominations for a position in the study of Early Christianity, at the rank of (tenure-track) Assistant or (tenured)... Read More »
In Memoriam: Kalman P. Bland (1942-2017)
Wednesday, July 26, 2017Kalman P. Bland (1942–2017), a longtime member of the American Academy of Religion, was professor emeritus of religious studies at Duke University, amateur violist, conversationalist extraordinaire, and embodiment of the Platonic ideal of thoughtfulness. Kalman received his BA in philosophy from... Read More »
Mourning the Loss of a Beloved Professor
Wednesday, July 19, 2017Kalman P. Bland, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Religious Studies, Duke University, died on July 15, 2017, in Chesterfield Royal Hospital in Derbyshire, UK. He became seriously ill while traveling with his partner, Annabel Wharton, in Italy and England; doctors... Read More »
Message from the Department:
The faculty of the Department of Religious Studies laments and strongly objects to the racist comments and symbols that have appeared on campus at Duke, repugnant expressions of White supremacy groups and others expressing racial and religious hatred that have no place whatsoever in our community or anywhere else. We sincerely hope that students, staff and faculty across the university will publicly convey their staunch rejection of such hatred in order to champion the values of tolerance and equality that are the true basis of our intellectual and ethical community.