Religious Studies News

September 19 2020

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages with Geraldine Heng

A Proven Practice: Reflections on Teaching Online (Part 1)

"The Fetish Revisited" with J. Lorand Matory

Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz on the Nepalese Hindu Goddess Svasthani

Introducing the NHA's Humanities Program Impact Survey Toolkit

Dr. Charles H. Long – Teacher, Mentor, Friend

Charles H. Long (1936–2020)

Empathy and the Religious Studies Classroom: Editor’s Introduction

Can We Teach Empathy? Lessons from the “Heretics”

Cultivating Informational Empathy

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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages with Geraldine Heng

Geraldine Heng discusses the obstacles in conceptualizing race in premodernity and the evidence...

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A Proven Practice: Reflections on Teaching Online (Part 1)

This is a the first in a series of posts called A Proven Practice, an initiative of AAR’s...

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"The Fetish Revisited" with J. Lorand Matory

The construction and use of the fetish framework in European social theory is the focus of J....

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Interviews

Text of image: "Conversation with Geraldine Heng, 2019 AAR Book Award Winner" with cover of Heng's book, "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages"

Thursday, September 17, 2020

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages with Geraldine Heng

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In the Public Interest

Monday, November 06, 2017

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan: 2017 Marty Award Winner

Spotlight on Teaching

Empathy by John Edward Marin

Tuesday, January 07, 2020

Empathy and the Religious Studies Classroom: Editor’s Introduction

Not for Women Only

Hua Mulan in "Gathering Gems of Beauty," album leaf, ink and colors on silk. Painter identified as He Dazi. Qing dynasty. Mulan depicted in a field with her back to the viewer, holding a spear

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Singlehood and the "Regimes of the Normal" in the Academy

Spotlight on Theological Education

Prefatory miniature from a moralized Bible of "God as architect of the world", folio I verso, Paris ca. 1220–1230. Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum 1' 1½" × 8¼". Public Domain.

Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Science and Theological Education: Reports from the Field

From the Student Desk

large, decorative iron gate

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

What Would a “Pretend” Scholar Look Like?: Interrogating Gatekeeping between Traditional and Flexible Academics

Guide for the Guild

two women

Monday, December 18, 2017

Female Graduate Students, Power Dynamics, and Work-Life Balance