Professor Prothero Publishes Religious Literacy Textbook
Prof. Stephen Prothero has published Religion Matters with W. W. Norton. According to the book’s W. W. Norton page, “religion is a system of stories, and there is no better way to engage with the world’s religions than through the stories that animate their beliefs and practices. Through the exploration of these ancient stories and contemporary […]
Professor Katz Wins PROSE Award
Prof. Katz’s new book, Holocaust and New World Slavery, won a 2020 World History Prose Award from the Association of American Publishers. Get the book here. The 2020 Prose Awards honor the best scholarly works published in 2019. These winners were selected by a panel of 19 judges from the 157 finalists previously identified from the […]
Professor Zank Publishes BU Today Op-Ed for Holocaust Remembrance Day
Read Prof. Zank’s article–“POV: 75 Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz, How Do We Make Sure It Never Happens Again?”– here.
Professor Michael Zank Publishes Op-Ed in BU Today
Responding to President Trump’s executive order targeting Anti-Semitic speech on college campuses, Religion Professor and Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies Michael Zank published an opinion piece in BU Today. The president’s order, Prof. Zank writes, “merely instigates a new era of government interference in American campus life and policing of speech […]
UVA Professor of Buddhist Studies Natasha Heller to Give Two Talks at BU on January 27th
On January 27th, Professor Natasha Heller will come to BU for two talks: “Counting Women in Buddhist Studies: What We Can (and Can’t) Learn from a Quantitative Approach” and “Taiwanese Buddhism and Global Parenting.” The talks are sponsored by BU Religion, the Center for the Study of Asia, and BU Pardee School of Global Studies. […]
Professor Frankfurter Wins Philip Schaff Prize
David Frankfurter’s new book, Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity (Princeton University Press), has won the 2019 Philip Schaff Prize of the American Society of Church History. The Philip Schaff prize annually honors the best book in the history of Christianity by a North American scholar published in the prior calendar year.
Professor Stephen Prothero Joins BU Humanities Faculty at Annual BUCH Forum
Last Thursday, Professor Prothero participated on a Boston University Humanities Center or BUCH panel along with BU humanities faculty, graduate students, staff, and administrators from across BU’s Charles River campus. Pofessor Prothero talked about discussing difficult texts with students in the classroom, spotlighting his RN106: Death and Immortality course which strives to “teach students about religious […]
Promising Professional Prospects for Religion BAs
According to the Napa Valley Register, religious and theological studies majors have the lowest unemployment rate of all college majors including philosophy, mass media studies, and law. Moreover, while folks with STEM degrees enter the workforce with higher starting salaries, liberal arts majors catch up to them by age 40. In the professional word, more than […]
PhD Student Andrew M. Henry Wins Religious Literacy Fellowship
Congrats to Andrew M. Henry, who won a Religious Literacy Fellowship, for “his entrepreneurial approach to advance the public’s understanding of religion through his YouTube channel, Religion For Breakfast.” According to the Foundation for Religious Literacy website, “each fellow received a grant of $12,000, plus a travel stipend and collegial support to advance their religious […]
GDRS Alum Dr. Lauren Kerby Will Publish Inaugural Book for Where Religion Lives series
Dr. Lauren Kerby’s book, Saving History: How White Evangelicals Tour the Nation’s Capital and Redeem a Christian America, is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press this spring. It will be the first book released for the new Where Religion Lives series, which “publishes ethnographies of religious life throughout the Americas, featuring the methods of […]