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. More
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.… More
Scripture and the Arts Material Religion Series Presents: Donald Cosentino
April Hughes has been chosen for an East Asia Career Development Professorship at Boston University.
This is a prestigious award that includes research funds for three years. The professorships are funded by a generous alumnus of Boston… More
The Present and Future of Bengal Studies: Prospects and Problems
September 14, 2018, 10:00-5:00 147 Bay State Road, Room 202 Totaling over 250 million people spread out across more than 91,200 square… More
Frank Korom organizes international workshop on comparative nationalisms in South Asia
With funding from the Crafoord Foundation and SASNET, Frank Korom and his colleague Jan Magnusson at Lund University have organized an international… More
Paula Fredriksen Receives Honorary Doctorate
Paula Fredriksen, Aurelio Professor of Scripture emeritus in the Department of Religion is being honored with an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities by… More
“Evangelicals and the Question of a Magical Bible: The Controversy over the Prayer of Jabez”
Stephen Prothero presented with Russell Chair in American Religion
Professor Stephen Prothero, author of many books on religion and American culture and teacher of such popular courses as “Death and Immortality”… More
Faculty member Frank Korom appears on Folk Beats in Islamabad.
Frank Korom discussed "Folklore and how it evolves" with host Aimon Fatima on Folk Beats in Islamabad. More