PlayMakers Repertory Company will host a FREE symposium with two national luminaries in the world of religious scholarship:  FAITH IN OUR LIVES: WHY WE FOLLOW The program will offer a rare opportunity for substantive exploration of how our beliefs and faith serve us both personally and collectively. We will also explore what is at risk when […]

How do scholars become fascinated by their subjects? What is it like when they make a new discovery? How do the processes of research, analysis, writing, and teaching change their perspectives of the world? "Sorcery, Celebration, and Religious Life in Rural Cuba" with Todd Ochoa: Associate Professor, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel […]

The Duke and UNC Center of Late Ancient Studies (CLAS) Graduate symposium on March 19 will feature Professor Zlatko Pleše speaking on the question of God's culpability for evil in the context of Hellenistic rhetoric and philosophy. Increasingly, studies of late antiquity have problematized easy boundaries between religion and philosophy and between labels of identity such as "Neoplatonic," "Christian," and "Gnostic." The goal of the […]