Indology – How Frank Korom, a Hungarian-German living in the US, became fascinated with the Indian subcontinent – Telegraph India
Frank J. Korom isn’t just a professor of religion and anthropology at Boston University. He is an ambassador of cultures and geographies, bringing nuance to belief and rationality to dogma. Having travelled throughout the Indian subcontinent after a teenage fascination with India, Frank sees faith from the lens of both an insider and outsider. My […]
Lisa Bitel, Scholar of Early Christian Ireland, to deliver Department of Religion Annual Lecture
The Department of Religion of Boston University is delighted to welcome Professor Lisa Bitel of the University of Southern California to give our annual Religion lecture. Her talk Converting the Religious Supernatural: A Fairy Tale will take place on Monday, February 6th, 2023, at 6pm.
Prof. Korom invited to give the Distinguished Lecture in Social Anthropology.
Frank J. Korom, Professor of Religion and Anthropology, has been invited to give the Distinguished Lecture in Social Anthropology at Presidency University in Kolkata, West Bengal, India on the topic of “The Dynamics of Contemporary Sufi Hagiographies in South Asia” in January 2023. While in West Bengal, he will also deliver a special lecture on […]
Prof. Frank Korom presents lecture “From Guru to Sheikh to Qutb”
Prof. Frank Korom to give lecture at the 2nd Public Lecture of the Anthropological Institute.
Scripture and the Arts’ Material Religion Series Presents Joyce Burkhalter Fluekiger (Emory University)
Margarita Guillory in the Daily Free Press
CAS professor lectures on overlooked African American contributions to spiritualism February 8, 2019 12:14 am by Victoria Lutz Boston University associate professor of religion Margarita Guillory gave a lecture Thursday about historically overlooked African-American contributions to Boston spiritualism, a religious movement based on mediation with spiritual beings.
Fade to Black: Race, Repression, and Resistance in Boston’s Spiritualist Movement
This year’s Religion Department Annual Lecture will feature our new senior colleague in Religions of the African Diaspora, Professor Margarita Guillory.
Margarita Simon Guillory in CAS News
New Faculty Spotlight Margarita Simon Guillory Department and Title: Associate Professor of Religion Hometown: Mobile, Alabama What is your educational background? Rice University: Ph.D. Religious Studies (2011); University of Saint Thomas: Master of Theological Studies (2005); Texas Southern University: Teacher Certification in Physical Sciences (2001); Emory University: B.A. in Chemistry with a minor in African-American Studies (1995) […]