Recent decades of research in historical, cultural, and social studies of religion have produced a body of scholarship on the construction and development of religious identities that seriously questions essentialist claims about the unchanging nature of religions. Nonetheless, essentialist notions of religions as unchanging entities are remarkably persistent, and relations between supposedly unchanging religions are […]

This year, the Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature will be held in San Antonio, TX, from November 19-22. This is one of the largest events in the field of religious studies, drawing over 10,000 attendees in recent years across more than 1100 academic and related sessions. […]

Justin Sands grew up in small-town Western North Carolina, and he graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2005 with a major in Religious Studies. After UNC, Sands obtained an M.A. at Villanova University, and then he received a Ph.D. from the University of Leuven in Belgium. He’s now living and working in an academic position in […]

Feminisms Here and Now: Communicating Alongside | Across | Against seeks to spark a critical conversation about what feminist praxis may look like in the first half of the 21st century and what role feminism may continue to play in critiquing and intervening in a broad range of social, cultural, and political issues. The conference […]

Lecture by Prof. Baruch J. Schwartz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Examined closely, the Biblical story of Noah is rife with inconsistency, repetition, and discontinuity. What brought about the Flood? How did it occur? How long did it last? Why was anyone spared? Why Noah? Why did God resolve never to destroy all life again? […]

(Un)Holy Spies: Religion and the American Espionage in World War II By Matthew Sutton, Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at Washington State University

The deadline for applications to join the UNC in Israel Summer Archaeological Excavation at Huqoq (May 29 to June 30, 2017), led by Prof. Jodi Magness, is February 9, 2017. To go directly to the application, click here. For more information on the program and the excavation, see here.

The deadline for submissions to the RELIxperience Undergraduate Video Contest is Feburuary 15, 2017. For more information, see here.

This year's deadline for applications for the Boyd Memorial Fellowship is February 20, 2017. The Boyd Fellowship is an $11,000 award given annually to a major or double-major in Religious Studies who plans to pursue either graduate or professional education in religion. For more information, see here.

Lecture by J. Derrick Lemons, Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Georgia For over a decade, scholars have called for more research about the spiritual lives of American millennials, the age cohort born between the 1980s and early 2000s. Scholars are especially interested in the religious-to-spiritual shift of American millennials, which is characterized by highly […]