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Visit the Religiology blog to read about Dr. Mohammed Fadel discussing the place of sacrifice in Islam at a discussion in Turkey earlier this year.
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Visit the Religiology blog to read a review of Kathleen Belew's 2018 book, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America.
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Visit the Religiology blog to read about Dr. Mehrdad Alipour speaking about his book, Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam: A Legal-Hermeneutical Examination of Modern Shi'i Discourse.
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Visit the Religiology blog to read about our recent SRO lecture discussing the religious roots of Halloween.
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RS professor Brent Landau recently served as "honorary guest coach" for UT's game on Nov. 9. He and his son Zack got to meet Coach Sark, Bevo, and others prior to the game. Landau was selected due to the large number of football team members he's taught over the years. Hook 'em!
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Visit the Religiology blog to read about a recent presentation led by Dr. Jennifer Graber about the Paiute Ghost Dance of 1890 in advance of her forthcoming book, The World Renewed: Ghost Dancing Across Native North America.
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Visit the Religiology blog to read about our recent colloquium with Dr. C. Michael Chin from UC Davis.
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Is Halloween today a religious or a secular holiday? And who gets to decide?
Find out at "The Religious Roots of Halloween," as Profs. Brent Landau and Jon Schofer explore the origins of the holiday. 3-4pm, Thurs., Oct. 24th in RLP 1.302E
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Our chair, Dr. Azfar Moin, recently wrote an essay, "Mughal neopaganism and the romance of history" for @ImmanentFrame, a forum within the Social Science Research Council. Please give it a read.
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Visit the Religiology blog to read about our recent colloquium featuring UT's own Dr. Courtney Handman from Anthropology.
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Join us Fri., 10/4, at noon in RLP 2.606, as we welcome in Dr. Michael Chin, Professor of Classics at UC Davis.
Led by the students in our 3rd-Year Seminar, we will be discussing a selection from his book, Life, the Natural History of an Early Christian Universe.
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Every year, our department provides scholarships and prizes to outstanding RS majors and doctoral students.
We want to recognize three students who received these awards: Hasan Ansari, Katarina Jakimier, and Peyton White. Visit tinyurl.com/4ud5mdmn for more info on them.
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Visit the Religiology blog to read about PhD student Lucianne Nelson's recent colloquium discussing Going Home Barbie and Manifest Domesticity.
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Visit the Religiology blog to read about our recent spring area colloquium with Distinguished Professor from UCSB Dr. Ann Taves.
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Each year, the Department of Religious Studies provides scholarships, prizes, and excellence funds to outstanding students in Religious Studies. Please visit liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/un… before May 3rd for details and application information about our four award opportunities.
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Visit our Religiology blog to read about fourth-year student Drake Konow and his ISR studies in Brazil studying the country's relationship between religion and art.
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Check out our Religiology blog to read about fifth-year student Quan Gan and his ISR studies in Europe last year analyzing medieval manuscripts.
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New on the Religiology blog! Hasan Ansari, a UT RS major, interviews fifth-year PhD student Blake Pye about Ibn Arabi’s impact on non-exclusivist approaches to Islam.
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In advance of the total solar eclipse on April 8th, Dr. Brent Landau and the Department of Religious Studies invites you to a pair of lectures on the religious significance of eclipses throughout history. Free cookies and eclipse glasses! rb.gy/znk70t
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Interested in joining the Department of Religious Studies? Good news! We have extended our Admissions deadline for Fall 2024 to January 5, 2024. Visit our Admissions page for more details.
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