Study of Religion Club Hosts First Symposium!
Congratulations to the Study of Religion Club for hosting their first ever symposium! The symposium took place on April 9th, and had a great showing of Religion Faculty and undergraduate students from multiple different colleges and departments! The event was spear-headed by Religion students Shengyi (Phoebe) Huang, Demian Choi, and Jonah Cuasin.
Thank You for Coming to the Religion Department Annual Lecture!
Thank you to everyone who showed up to our annual Religion Department lecture! We were honored to have Sherry Lindquist as our first ever Art Historian to give the annual lecture. Sherry presented “The Book of Hours and the Body: Technologies of Devotion and Identity.” Faculty from multiple departments were present, and we had a great […]
Boston University Religion PhD Featured on Women’s History Month Reading List
The Women’s Mosque of America by Boston University Religion PhD Tazeen Ali (now at Washington University, St Louis) is one of the Reading Religion site’s Women’s History month picks! You can check out the list here!
Stephen Prothero Award for Undergraduate Writing in Religion
The Religion Department is excited to announce the 2025 Stephen Prothero Award for Undergraduate Writing in Religion! This award will recognize an outstanding paper or creative project by a Religion major or minor for one of their Religion courses during Fall 2024 or Spring 2025. All entries will be evaluated by a jury of Religion […]
Undergraduate Talk: Monster Theory: From Humbaba to Creepy Pasta
Sherry C.M. Lindquist will deliver an undergraduate talk while on campus to present the Religion Department Annual Lecture. “Monster Theory: From Humbaba to Creepy Pasta” addresses the monsters that define us. No human culture has been without its monsters. Monsters express things beyond themselves: sometimes concrete things or persons, sometimes abstract concepts, emotions, philosophies, or ideologies. […]
Religion Department Annual Lecture!
The Religion Department is excited to announce our 2025 Annual Lecture, presented by Sherry C.M. Lindquist! The lecture will take place Wednesday, March 26; Barrister’s Hall (Law School) at 5PM. We hope to see you there! Sherry will present: “The Book of Hours and the Body: Technologies of Devotion and Identity.” This lecture investigates the ways […]
Religion Undergraduate Pizza Party
We are so excited to have everyone back on campus for the start of classes very soon! We invite our undergraduate students to a pizza party hosted by the Religion Department! We have a new gathering space/lounge on the first floor, and we are very exciting for everyone to see it and make use of […]
Faculty and Graduate Welcome Back Social
We invite all of our faculty and gradate students to join us on Wednesday, Sept. 4th at 3pm for a social gathering celebrating the start of classes! The event will take place in Room 101 at 145 Bay State Road (Religion Department). Food and alcoholic beverages will be served (kosher options available)! Please reach out […]
2024 Richard Ellis Katz Prize Winners
A huge congratulations to our 2024 Richard Ellis Katz Prize recipients: Aysheta Das, Jessica Fatzinger, and Shaylon Walker! About the award: The prize honors the memory of Richard Katz, a promising young religion student who, along with his fiancée, died in an automobile accident the winter before his graduation in 1967. In his memory, his family […]
Two Religion Graduate Students Win BUCH Awards!
Congratulations to two of our Graduate students, Nicholas Covaleski and Grabiel Paxton, who recently received BU Center for Humanities Awards! Nicholas Covaleski received the Alice. M. Brennan Humanities Award, and Gabriel Paxton received the Edwin S. and Ruth M. White Prize!