Some departments, like my own at the University of Iowa, have welcomed split appointments between religious studies and classics that have successfully intermixed religious studies with the classical canon.
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Yousafzai took the exam in math, history, religious studies and geography.
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Mr. Onishi is an associate professor of religious studies at Skidmore College.
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The faculty in religious studies needed experts in Islam and African-American Christianity.
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Susie Meister has a PhD in religious studies and hosts the Brain Candy podcast.
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Caleb Elfenbein is an associate professor of history and religious studies at Grinnell College.
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Sneaker heads with a taste for religious studies may appreciate this pious Nike drop.
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Although he is a religious studies major turned lawyer, he's a coder through and through.
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MICHAEL SATLOW, PROVIDENCE, R.I. The writer is a professor of religious studies at Brown University.
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There are people with university degrees in religious studies who might stumble over those questions.
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The big city was intoxicating, and living there persuaded him to abandon his religious studies.
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Dr. Katherine Kurs, a member of the religious studies faculty at the New School, officiated.
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The history and religious studies professor was out of work for more than a year.
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I studied religious studies because of Allen Ginsberg in a way, you know what I mean?
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At Oberlin College in Ohio he gravitated to religious studies, practicing his saxophone on the side.
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His father retired as a professor of religious studies at the University of California Santa Barbara.
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Mathew Schmalz, professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.
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He will also be taught religious studies, French, computing, art/design technology, music, drama, P.E. and ballet.
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"Despite the threats, we now run an efficient media office," said Ahmadi, a graduate in religious studies.
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Meredith J C Warren is a lecturer in biblical and religious studies at the University of Sheffield.
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Dr. Katherine Kurs, a member of the religious studies faculty at the New School, performed the ceremony.
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Western Illinois University is phasing out several majors: African-American studies, women's studies, religious studies and philosophy.
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There, he taught and created courses in the departments of music, English, religious studies, law and management.
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Michael L. SatlowProvidence, R.I.The writer is a professor of religious studies and Judaic studies at Brown University.
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But strictly Orthodox Jews engaged in full-time religious studies have been exempted from compulsory military service.
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The bride's father is a professor of history and religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
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MICHAEL SATLOW Providence, R.I. The writer is a professor of religious studies and Judaic studies at Brown University.
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Many religious studies scholars say it makes sense that women would emerge at the forefront of this movement.
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A Tucson native, Kate attended the University of Arizona with a focus on Political Science and Religious Studies.
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Cemelli de Aztlan is a lecturer in gender and religious studies at the University of Texas at El Paso.
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Jalane Schmidt is an associate professor of religious studies at UVA and an organizer with Black Lives Matter Charlottesville.
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Many professors of religious studies bridle at the new field's orientation toward real-world application rather than pure scholarship.
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LESLIE BAYNESSPRINGFIELD, MO. The writer is an associate professor in the department of religious studies at Missouri State University.
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Award-winning author Sarah McFarland Taylor is a professor of religious studies and environmental policy and culture at Northwestern University.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews make up about 11 percent of the population and many prioritize religious studies over science and maths.
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Johana, a born and bred New Yorker, attended Lehigh University, where she studied journalism as well as global and religious studies.
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It teaches some reading and writing in Hebrew and basic arithmetic, but most of the day is devoted to religious studies.
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The future king's jam-packed Year 1 curriculum includes core subjects such as math, English, science, history, geography and religious studies.
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To this misconception R. Marie Griffith, a professor of religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis, offers an important corrective.
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A professor of history and religious studies at Yale, he has written several books on late medieval and early modern Europe.
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He holds a B.A. in Political Science, a B.A. in Religious Studies, and a minor in Economics from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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"Acquiring autocephaly is part of the process of exiting the imperial orbit of Moscow," said Mr. Gorshkov, a religious studies expert.
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Matthew FosterMerrick, N.Y.The writer is the son of American missionaries to Japan, and a professor of religious studies at Molloy College.
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N. Ángel Pinillos is a professor of philosophy in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University.
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In 22016 and 22015, the university's Religious Studies Department received a total of $250,2000 from the foundation, according to the tax forms.
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She switched to a master's program in religious studies, where her thesis led her to research how ancient societies treated information distribution.
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They receive state benefits, stipends and military exemptions that allow many to devote time to religious studies rather than joining the workforce.
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S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate is an associate professor of religious studies and cinema and media studies, by special appointment, at Hamilton College.
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"These questions have long bedeviled our field," said Gregory B. Johnson, a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
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"French Canadians in Quebec behave like psychologically embattled people," said Patrice Brodeur, an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Montreal.
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But Mr. Joko, a socially conservative Muslim, included religious studies among those fields, even though it was already a popular choice for students.
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Religious studies experts began giving counter-testimony arguing there was no such thing, and that brainwashing claims undermined religious freedom and free will.
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" Jonathan Walton, an assistant professor of African American Religious Studies at Harvard University, said listening to Cone is like "listening to a Hebrew prophet.
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Dr. Chuck Currie is the director of the Center for Peace and Spirituality, university chaplain and assistant professor of religious studies at Pacific University.
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"A lot of institutions have seen interfaith studies as a way not to have religious studies ghettoized," the college president, Carl J. Strikwerda, said.
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Instead, the future king will embark on a year-long curriculum that includes core subjects such as math, English, science, history, geography and religious studies.
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This is an optimistic aspect that encourages growth through higher learning and religious studies, as they relate to a forgiving revisitation of your past selves.
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Her mother retired as the associate dean of faculty and an instructor in philosophy and religious studies at Phillips Academy, from which the bride graduated.
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He received an MA in 1986 in religious studies from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and wrote his master's thesis on Catholic history.
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"That is part of the Vatican bubble in which Pope Francis operates," said Massimo Faggioli, a professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University.
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"I don't follow that stuff anymore," said Woodbine, a Yoruba shaman who teaches philosophy and religious studies at Phillips Academy, or Andover, as it is known.
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"It was a way to let off emotional steam after months of winter," says Dr. Carl Raschke, professor of religious studies at the University of Denver.
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David Embree, a religious studies professor at Missouri State University, said Liberal benefitted in its early years from the area's live-and-let-live frontier mentality.
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That's because nostalgia is an important ingredient in the magazine's relaunch, said Susan B. Ridgely, a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Mobley, a Muslim student of Arabic, and his wife decided to move to the Yemeni capital Sanaa so he could pursue further language and religious studies.
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On Friday afternoon, CNN announced it had dropped Aslan's show Believer after the religious studies scholar called Trump "a piece of shit" on Twitter over the weekend.
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Philip Barlow, a Mormon scholar who directs religious studies at Utah State University, says these differing attitudes partly reflect contrasting views of God's relationship with the world.
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I received rudimentary instruction in English and arithmetic — an afterthought after a long day of religious studies — but by high school, secular studies were dispensed with altogether.
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I could rely only on an ill-paid position as a teacher of religious studies at the local boys' yeshiva, which required no special training or certification.
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Abdallah came to Egypt in 2011 to study Arabic and Islamic Studies at Cairo's historic al-Azhar university because such religious studies are not permitted in China.
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Anthea Butler is a Presidential Fellow at Yale Divinity School for 2019-21979 and associate professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Dr. Chuck Currie is University Chaplain, Director of the Center for Peace and Spirituality and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.
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"You could think about it this way: They're making sneakers a liturgical garment," said Anthea Butler, an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Elizabethtown won one of the grants and used existing funds to make new hires in religious studies and to put more of Dr. Sadd's time into classroom teaching.
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Match Book Dear Match Book, I was a religious studies major in college before I became serious about my career and got a degree in applied computer science.
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Father Richard Millbourn, who teaches religious studies at St. X, as St. Xavier is commonly called, plans to discuss the episode with his students in the weeks ahead.
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"We believe the ruh stay with us for 40 days after death," says Pak Nur, a spiritual leader at Nahdlatul Ulama, a school in Indonesia that practices religious studies.
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Petersen Boring, an associate professor of history, religious studies, women & gender studies at Willamette University in Oregon, has been teaching about climate change for a little over a decade.
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Death taboos vary wildly from culture to culture, as do imaginings of the afterlife, according to religious studies scholar Erik Davis, author of Deathpower: Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia.
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"When I began teaching in 2003, no girl would admit to having a boyfriend," says Ms Kaddor, who until recently taught religious studies for Muslims in a Rhineland school.
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She graduated from Duke and received a master's degree in religious studies from N.Y.U. She is a daughter of Elyse Rothaus Butnick and Howard J. Butnick of Old Westbury.
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"The woman turned around and said, 'Get your dirty hand off me, you goddamn spic,'" recalled Mr. Alvarez, now a senior instructor in religious studies at Florida International University.
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He spends his days at the university's Faculty of Islamic Theology, where he majors in comparative religious studies, and his evenings hanging out with friends and listening to music.
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"The woman turned around and said, 'Get your dirty hand off me, you goddamn spic,'" recalled Mr. Alvarez, now a senior instructor in religious studies at Florida International University.
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"There is no uniform way of studying Kabbalah in the traditional sense," says Elliot Wolfson, a Professor of Religious Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara focusing on Jewish Mysticism.
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"What they prize in their transition is continuity of the tradition," Kathleen Flake, a religious studies professor at the University of Virginia who specializes in the Mormon church told NPR.
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Hicham Tifati, an Islamic law and religious studies scholar who used to work at Montreal's anti-radicalization center, also said his initial impression of the projects is a positive one.
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"What is happening is what many of us hoped would not happen," said Massimo Faggioli, a professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University, who is supportive of Francis.
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All you need is an education in counseling and religious studies, some multi-cultural literacy, experience working in clinical settings, and a passion for helping people face death and grief.
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It contains more than 20 articles, written by the curators of the exhibition in addition to a long list of historians, archaeologists and experts in religious studies and medieval art.
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According to Dale Martin professor of religious studies at Yale University, there are no Roman records about Jesus from anywhere near his lifetime (assuming his execution was around 30 CE).
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"He was essentially echoing Liberation Theology's call to build a kingdom of heaven here on Earth," Andrew Chesnut, religious studies professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, said of the Pope's message.
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Jim Merithew/WIRED These days Joseph Laycock is an assistant professor of religious studies at Texas State University, but in a former life he was a middle-school Dungeons & Dragons player.
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A recent graduate of religious studies who is believed to be in his mid- or late 20s, Mullah Yaqoub at first revolted against Mullah Mansour's claim to the leadership last summer.
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Shame that you are the things you're told; you are the things that are written about you; you are the thing omitted in sex ed or derided in religious studies class.
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He had studied urban planning and ceramics at Iowa State University and earned a master's degree in fine arts and religious studies from the University of Cape Town, in South Africa.
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According to Philip Barlow, director of religious studies at Utah State University, this sensitivity goes back to the mid-19th century when the newly founded group was persecuted, assaulted and rioted against.
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Throughout the long history of Satanic culture, "there's always been a tenor of tweaking the status quo, tweaking the mainstream," said David E Embree, who teaches religious studies at Missouri State University.
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"Many of these films are explicitly Christian propaganda with a missionary agenda," says Hector Avalos, a professor of religious studies at Iowa State University who teaches a class on religion and film.
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Richard Hecht, a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said that many believers could indeed see this chaotic summer as a sign of the end of times.
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Graham spoke of racism as "a heart problem" that could be solved simply by converting people to Christianity, says Lewis V. Baldwin, professor emeritus of religious studies at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.
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People are concerned about potential violence during clashes among protestors, counter-protestors and the police, said Jalane Schmidt, an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.
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Dr. Chuck Currie, a United Church of Christ minister, is the director of the Center for Peace and Spirituality, university chaplain and assistant professor of religious studies at Pacific University in Oregon.
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The soldier, who the military said was in civilian clothes and unarmed, was a student in a Jewish seminary in the West Bank that combines religious studies with service in the armed forces.
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As the future head of the Church of England, George will need to pay close attention in his religious studies class, which will include an introduction so the Bible and the New Testament.
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Sheikh Nimr's family and village were known for their opposition to the monarchy, a tradition he embraced after returning home from more than a decade abroad for religious studies in Iran and Syria.
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But Willis Jenkins, a religious-studies professor at the University of Virginia, has argued that the persistence of an eco-sceptical evangelical lobby may have emboldened the president to walk away from Paris.
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"We received an allegation from a Fordham Prep alumnus of the class of 1984 that religious studies teacher, Mr. Fernand Beck, sexually molested him shortly after he graduated," the school's president, the Rev.
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"Santa Muerte appeals to narcos because of her powers of protection, prosperity and vengeance," explains Dr. Andrew Chesnut, Professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, and the foremost authority on Santa Muerte.
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According to Jalane Schmidt, a professor of religious studies at the university, 52 percent of the residents of Charlottesville and surrounding Albemarle County — 14,000 people in all — were enslaved during the Civil War.
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He was a history professor at Columbia from 1989 to 2007 and later taught at Arizona State University in Tempe, where he was director of the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies.
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When he was a religious-studies professor, his favorite class was "The Inner Journey in Myth, Bible and Literature," in which he had students keep personal journals and led them through guided imagery.
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"You move up the bridge to freedom by working toward being an 'Operating Thetan,' which at the highest level transcends material law," says David Bromley, a professor of religious studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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" Andrew Chesnut, a professor of religious studies at Virginia Commonwealth University who came here to observe the pope's visit, said, "Pope Francis is really at his best and most eloquent when addressing the youth.
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So to me, that's a tool of my trade: whether I'm reading poetry or religious studies, mythology, fiction, nonfiction, science fiction, whatever it is, that becomes sort of the blueprint of whatever is coming.
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"A strong belief in mysticism comes from reading and believing Qur'anic passages emphasizing the existence of unseen worlds," says Dr. Muhamad Ali, a religious studies professor at the University of California, Riverside, specializing in Islam.
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After I finished my doctorate in religious studies, I wanted to combine my love of television with my academic experience, and met with several agents who were willing to take me on as a client.
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"He promises quick, painless, and complete 'solutions' to problems which may be deep and complex, and which may require real discipline and professional treatment," wrote religious studies professor and journalist William Lee Miller in 241.
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During my time there, I also read the King James Bible and stories about Jesus, learned about Christian morality, debated the Trinity with Jesuit priests and received an A every semester in religious studies class.
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I know my colleagues in literature and other fields like philosophy or religious studies have similar encounters -- and this is important, because there already are more than enough students who want to study the humanities.
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But it is a place where at least we're all arguing about the same values [...]" Emma Green interviews Phil Gorski, a professor of sociology and religious studies at Yale, about his new book, "American Covenant.
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Although I have an affinity for Asian religions like Buddhism and Taoism and even have a master's degree in religious studies from a divinity school, I've been an unabashed atheist for my entire adult life.
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And like with the Catholic Church, Jehovah's Witness leadership have a vested interest in protecting the reputation of the organization, according to Mathew Schmalz, a professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross.
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"I did not take Trump's statements seriously enough, and I did not take these white nationalists as seriously as I should have," said Zareena Grewal, an associate professor of American studies and religious studies at Yale.
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As an academic, I engage in critique of all sorts of ideas all the time; and when I engage in religious studies, I see all kinds of harsh criticism, about religion in general and Islam in particular.
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Jalane Schmidt, a forty-nine-year-old religious-studies professor, who was trying to establish the Black Lives Matter movement in the community, was supplementing the work of the commission with some historical research of her own.
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But at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., as a prize for his religious studies work, he won a copy of "The Book of a Thousand Tongues," which translated the gospel of St. Mark into multiple languages.
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"There was some head-scratching about resettling refugees in town that are in rubble, without engaging in the reconstruction of buildings," Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Studies at the conservative Hudson Institute, told Fox News.
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Moreover, the network of hesder yeshivas (which mix religious studies with military service) and religious pre-service military academies is often intended less to create a new national-religious elite than to keep youngsters from leaving religious life.
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The professor, Matthew J. Garcia, said that he had welcomed the foundation's donation to his program — the school of historical, philosophical and religious studies — but that he had insisted normal hiring procedures be followed to fill the job.
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While I&aposve always had a high sense of personal worth, I had resigned myself to a low net worth backed by a degree in religious studies and a value for loving my work more than getting rich.
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And according to Dusty Hoesly, a doctoral candidate in religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara who wrote his dissertation on the Universal Life Church's role in contemporary weddings, the trend is likely to continue apace. Why?
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Even though I do not align with any particular religious tradition, I went back to school and got a bachelor&aposs degree in religious studies (so I could better understand the views of the people I was working with).
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Since 2011, Jodi Magness, an archaeologist and distinguished professor of early Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, has directed students and researchers excavating the site of Horbat Huqoq (referred to as Huqoq) in Eastern Galilee.
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According to Philip Barlow, who directs religious studies at Utah State University, Mormons remain very proud of the political achievements of Mitt Romney, a follower of their faith who was Republican presidential candidate in 2012 and a very successful businessman.
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And while there are certainly Christians (and non-Christians) who believe that, Rebecca Todd Peters, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church and professor of religious studies at Elon University, says that those aren't really beliefs that all Christians share.
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The plan is the latest effort to address longstanding concerns that the roughly 30,000 madrasas in Pakistan provide a haven for extremist teaching with a rigid curriculum based around religious studies that fails to prepare students for employment after they graduate.
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When I asked him about religion—he has a Star of David inked under his left eye and often wears a diamond-studded cross around his neck—he reminded me that religious studies was his first major at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Under it, he said, educational officials trying to evaluate standards at yeshivas would be asked to consider the number of hours spent studying all topics, including religious studies, in determining whether such an education was "substantially equivalent" to secular public schools.
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Understanding why it's false is an essential first step toward addressing the actual religious illiteracy that I encounter every semester as a professor of religious studies, which affects this nation as a whole — and, perhaps surprisingly, conservative Christians in particular.
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The unpleasant sight and overpowering stench of flesh decaying in tropical heat can impart lessons about important Buddhist precepts, like nonattachment to one's body and the impermanence of everything, said Justin McDaniel, a professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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The sister said she had overheard her sibling tell a German reporter that the diary had been given for safekeeping to a religious studies scholar, Herbert Richardson, who ran a publishing house in Lewiston, N.Y., about a 20-minute drive from Niagara Falls.
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Why not, as the religious studies professor Ron Srigley has recently argued, return to the old, "beautiful goal" of the university, "to discover and then to tell the truth," disentangled from the mercenary arms of the offices of careers and student life?
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In a 2017 study of 57 cultures, selected as representative of societies around the world, Claire White, a religious-studies professor at California State University, Northridge, and her colleagues found that most of them included death rituals in which people viewed corpses.
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"Christians have by and large adapted themselves to every technology that came along, in particular ones that had the promise of communicating information," says Robert Geraci, a religious studies scholar and author of Virtually Sacred: Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life.
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She had more pressing matters to attend to, like filing assignments for her religious studies program; writing acerbic blog-style posts on the Russian clone of Facebook, called vKontakte; participating in various feminist groups online; and attempting to launch a sciencey-print T-shirt business.
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Women, and especially women of color, in church leadership may be more attentive to not only the discrimination LGBTQ people face, but also the theological links between LGBTQ and gender equality, said Brandy Daniels, a lecturer in religious studies at the University of Virginia.
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The 39-year-old Mahmud, who holds a doctorate in religious studies and was a university lecturer in Kuala Lumpur, was Hapilon's second-in-command in the IS's Southeast Asia "caliphate", according to a July report by Indonesia-based Institute of Policy Analysis and Conflict (IPAC).
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But David Gordon White — the author of Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts and a distinguished professor emeritus of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara — says yoga and sex have very little to do with each other historically.
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" As of Wednesday morning, some 2,700 Christian leaders had signed the appeal, including small-town pastors and pastors of large city churches; lay leaders; presidents of theological seminaries; and faculty of divinity schools and of university religious studies departments -- some of them more evangelical, some more "mainline.
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It's a technique "long exploited by faith healers and self-help gurus," common in "get-rich-quick and quack medicine books desperate to sell readers on the Truth of their claims," Alan Levinovitz, an associate professor of religious studies at James Madison University, wrote in the Washington Post.
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Joseph Laycock, associate professor of religious studies at Texas State University, writes in The Conversation that communing with those lost in the war was part of the popularity of the Spiritualist movement, an optimistic, progressive philosophy that promoted talking with the dead and which eventually spawned the talking boards.
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"This new revelation will lead to a new round of corruption charges against both (Peña Nieto's) anemic administration and members of the Church hierarchy all of which strengthens Pope Francis's anticorruption message," says Andrew Chesnut, religious studies professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and expert on Catholicism in Latin America.
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Alberto Melloni, the director of a liberal Catholic research institution, the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies in Bologna, said that in the days leading up to the speech, Francis repeatedly made reference to the saint's visit centuries ago and saw his own mission in a similar vein.
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"It's kind of like Big Brother," said Allison Isidore, a graduate student in religious studies from Montclair, N.J. It also seems inevitable in an age when tech behemoths like Facebook, Google and Amazon harvest data from phones, knowing where users walk, what they watch and how they shop.
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"One of the oldest and most consistent findings in studies on the correlates and antecedents of porn use is that people who are more religious tend to watch pornography less often," Samuel Perry, the study's author and an assistant professor of sociology and religious studies at the university, told Broadly.
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Its Executive Director, Suhag Shukla, penned a heartfelt op-ed in The Huffington Post, and enlisted over 40 professors from fields such as Social Ethics at Saint Mary's College in California to Religious Studies at Harvard University, to join its call in rejecting this "anachronistic" proposal to rewrite Indian history.
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Julie Ingersoll, professor of religious studies at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville and the author of Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstructionism, points out to Vox that Pompeo's dualism is "explicitly opposed to pluralism and tolerance," favoring instead a neat division of people into godly or diabolic.
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Gregory Price Grieve, Head of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an expert on digital religion, Buddhism, ethics, and gaming, told me that Now and Then is a model example of how the concept of game play can serve as a conduit for more serious conversations.
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Other religious studies faculty have confirmed my own experiences, and if our students — bright, young, open-minded thinkers who elect to take courses on religion — are religiously illiterate, how much truer must that be of Americans unlucky enough to have a narrower vision of the world, and who are less motivated to broaden it.
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I also asked Ahmed Souaiaia, a professor of religious studies at the University of Iowa, if there was any sign of Islamic extremism in Iowa, and he explained that the Islamic State appeals to members of the Wahhabis sect or believers in Salafi jihadism, which aren't typically part of the conversation in your friendly neighborhood mosque.
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That means more briefing on the nuances of British Islam for local authority figures (Ms Bowen's book, "Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent", is a good start), arm's-length liaison bodies for Muslim moderates uncomfortable about engaging with the state, efforts to reverse the decline of religious studies and better policing of fashionable but often unaccountable "faith schools".
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The summer session is one of several experiments that have stuck at Georgia State, part of a broader vision generally credited to the university president, Mark P. Becker, a statistician who began his academic career at a community college, and Timothy M. Renick, a religious studies professor whose job title is now senior vice president for student success.
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"It started becoming popular about 15 years ago or so, but it was kicked into high gear by the immense popularity of Coco, in particular, which broke box office records across the globe," says Andrew Chesnut, PhD, professor of religious studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, The Skeleton Saint.
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Hampshire College Monica H. Green, Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University Erika Hagelberg, Professor, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo Evelynn Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Helena Hansen, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, New York University John Hartigan Jr., Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin.
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"Each year we celebrate a man whom we have not come to understand," says Baldwin, a professor emeritus of religious studies at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and author of the forthcoming book, "Behind the Public Veil: The Humanness of Martin Luther King, Jr." Consider what follows as "mythbusting MLK," a debunking of the five most persistent misperceptions about the civil rights leader.
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We're going to do it for people like Gulay Turan of New Jersey who sold her furniture to afford her mother's cancer medication; for Victoria Steussel, a California mother who has to skip doses of her unaffordable cocktail of multiple sclerosis medicines; and for Bob Fowler, an Ohio religious studies professor with cancer afraid to retire because of his extreme prescription drug costs.
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"I've never been in another conference where people didn't laugh or snicker when I announced what the title of my talk was," said Joel Anderson, an associate professor in the department of philosophy and religious studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, one of a handful of philosophers who also do research in this niche field, dominated by psychologists and behavioral economists.
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