Faculty News

Richard Martin and GDR PhD candidate Abbas Barzegar have recently published an edited volume, Islamism: Contested Perspectives on Political Islam (Stanford University Press, 2009).

Department faculty members John Dunne and Dianne (Stewart) Diakite were presenters at the experimental transatlantic videoconference "New Scientific Approaches to the Study of Religious Experience" on May 22, 2009. The conference, which was organized by the Department along with Emory's Center for Mind, Brain and Culture, included participants from the University of Oxford's Centre for Anthropology and Mind. The conference was sponsored by the American Academy of Religion. Excerpts from the conference can be viewed here: http://vimeo.com/album/101624.

David Blumenthal's The Banality of Good and Evil has been translated into French: La Banalité du Bien et du Mal has just been published by Le Cerf, Paris.

Congratulations to Vernon Robbins on his new book, The Invention of Christian Discourse, Volume 1 (Brandford Forum, UK: Deo Publishing, 2009).

There is a new award named in honor of Bobbi Patterson funded through the Emory Scholars Program in conjunction with the Center for Ethics: The Bobbi Patterson Award for Service.

Don Seeman was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure and his book One People, One Blood was recently published by Rutgers University Press.

Gary Laderman has published a new book, Sacred Matters: Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, The Living Dead and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States, and has been featured on the website bigthink.com. He has also most recently been named a Winship Distinguished Professor.

Student News

Congrats to all the graduating Religion majors and minors! In the photo at left are Julie Franks, Mark Platt and Rachel Rosenberg on commencement day 2009.

Awards AY 2008-09

Rachel Rosenberg won the Vaddadi R. Rao Prize for overall excellence among majors in the Department, as well as an honorable mention for the Beardslee Prize.

Eliot Johnson was winner of the Beardslee Prize in Religious Literature First Place.

Steven Dry’s paper won him the Beardslee Second Place prize.

These students were inducted into the Honor Society for Religion, Theta Alpha Kappa: Surabhi Agrawal, Rebecca Arnold, Kara Cutrona, Jesse Doran, Steven Dry, Amanda Lee Dunk, Felicia Sara Edlin,Julie Franks, Sean Regan Hallarman, Russell Holcombe, Arin Elizabeth Latimore, Rebecca Carli Marks, Scott Movens, Faraz Naeem, Kristen Peterson, Jennifer Potter, Luke Wetzel, Wyatt Wilson. Congratulations!

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