The Annual meeting of the North Carolina Religious Studies Association (NCRSA) will be held Saturday, October 5 at Carolina Hall on UNC Chapel Hill's Campus. The program is now available on the NCRSA website. Registration for the meeting is also open. The registration fee for the 2019 conference is $20 if you register by September […]

"Undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows are invited to submit abstracts to the fourth meeting of Feminisms Here and Now, an interdisciplinary conference organized by PhD students in the Departments of Communication and Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This year’s theme – “Difficult Attachments” – draws from discussions around […]

This year, the Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature will be held in San Diego, CA, from November 23-26. Numerous faculty and graduate students in UNC's Department of Religious Studies will be participating in a variety of capacities. For more information, see the description on the AAR […]

We invite you to join us for the 2020 Fellows Celebration! Come and show your support for Religious Studies faculty who will have new books represented at this event.

Come to our catered dinner! Students considering the major or minor are welcome to join as well. Don't forget to RSVP.

Research Forum: “New light on the Arabic writings of Omar ibn Said” A presentation by Carl Ernst and Mbaye Lo The enslaved African Muslim scholar Omar ibn Said, who wrote an autobiography in Arabic in 1831 while enslaved in Bladen County NC, has attracted attention as a striking example of the presence of Muslims in […]

RELI 501 and the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies will be hosting a guest lecture: “On Embedding the Bible in the Human Past: The Beginnings of Historical Criticism.” Michael Legaspi, Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Jewish Studies at Penn State University, is giving the lecture. Anyone with an interest in the […]