"How Buddhism Met Science: A Monastic Scholar’s Journey" by Dhondup T. Rekjong
December 21, 2023
2023
December
Religious Studies will be closed for Winter Recess, Dec 22nd, 2023 until Jan 2nd, 2024. Happy Holidays!
December 20, 2023
Northwestern alumnus Jeffrey Wheatley explores American fanaticism and game design
December 18, 2023
Prof. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd: How the US is making it illegal for students to disagree with Israel
December 5, 2023
November
Congratulations to graduate student Ray Buckner on his Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on "Buddhism and Sexuality"
November 15, 2023
Meet Adjunct Professor Allison Hurst
November 14, 2023
October
2023 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
October 26, 2023
Congratulations to Professor Christine Helmer for releasing a new book, titled Ordinary Faith in Polarized Times: Justification and the Pursuit of Justice
October 26, 2023
Meet Associate Professor James Bielo of the Department of Religious Studies
October 26, 2023
September
Religious Studies Newsletter 2023
September 22, 2023
August
Congratulations Dr. Millner!
August 22, 2023
May
Congratulations to Joshua Shelton for having a new piece accepted at the Journal of Tibetan Literature!
May 21, 2023
Congratulations to Dhondup T. Rekjong for receiving the Buffett Global Impacts Graduate Fellowship!
May 21, 2023
Alumna Darcie Price-Wallace has just published an article in the Journal of Global Buddhism: “Buddhist Pro-Woman Attitudes Towards Full Ordination: Tibetan and Himalayan Monastics’ Views”
May 21, 2023
Congratulations to Ray Buckner for being awarded a 2023 Northwestern-SSRC DPD Fellowship!
May 4, 2023
April
Congratulations to Professor Brannon Ingram and Professor Sarah Jacoby for being selected as two of the 2023-2024 Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Faculty Fellows!
April 21, 2023
"Opinion: We Need to Think about the Dalai Lama’s Actions Very Carefully" by Joshua Brallier Shelton
April 21, 2023
Congratulations to Udita Das for receiving the 2023 Summer Language Grant from The Graduate School
April 18, 2023
Professor Christine Helmer shares how Davóne Tines’s MASS inspired her Introduction to Christianity course, through the interplay of culture, music, theology, history, and politics.
April 1, 2023