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The Religious Studies Graduate Organization in the Department of Religious Studies at UNC Charlotte is proud to announce its 5th annual graduate student conference on Friday, April 29, 2022 virtually. The theme for this year’s conference is Religion & Futurity: Elsewhere, Elsewhen, and Beyond. Within this theme, we begin to ask: How has the field […]

What constitutes a research gap? And what do we–as scholars, artists, activists, and communities–do with these gaps? The English Graduate Student Association and Religious Studies Graduate Association are excited to present Bridging the Gap: A Graduate Research Symposium, a virtual symposium that welcomes papers and artistic expressions that celebrate intertextuality, pastiche, and the interdisciplinary nature […]

Trina Rumfelt, Graduate MA Student in Religious Studies Trina chose to pursue Religious Studies at both the undergraduate and graduate level because it allows her to develop a better understanding of people, their socialization practices, and cultural influences. Her research focus today is Judaism/Early Christianity and why the various dating proposals regarding the Dead Sea […]

The Department of Religious Studies would like to congratulate David Flaherty, a Master’s student studying South Asian religions, cultures, and histories, on being awarded the “Meyer-White Study Away Grant.” This grant, as sponosored and funded by William and Barbara Branch, helps to fund student research that takes them outside of North Carolina and is named […]

Lindsay Carroll, Religious Studies MA Graduate Lindsay Carroll was first introduced to Hinduisim through yoga, and pursued her master’s degree in Religious Studies as a way to gain more in-depth knowledge of Hinduism. As an artist, the graduate thesis process allowed her to refine her ability to commit to extended creative and scholarly endeavors. She […]

Check out all the great courses being offered by the RELS faculty this spring 2022! Undergraduate Courses Graduate Courses

The Department of Religious Studies continues our very first scavenger hunt this week! Again, below are the details and rules for our scavenger hunt. Good luck! Details: Beginning every Monday, we will post a set of three (3) challenges (on our website!) that our graduate and undergraduate students can participate in for weekly prizes in […]

Attention! Religious Studies Students! Attention! The Department of Religious Studies begins our very first scavenger hunt…today! Below are the details and rules for our scavenger hunt. Good luck! Details: Beginning every Monday, we will post a set of three (3) challenges (on our website!) that our graduate and undergraduate students can participate in for weekly […]

“My research pulls in multiple directions, but it’s also all driven by a fascination with how religious people have thought about the wild and expansive possibilities of language and literature. My first book, which should be published next year (knock on wood), is about a sixteenth-century Sufi Muslim community in what is now Afghanistan who […]

David Flaherty, a Master’s student in the Department of Religious Studies, as well as Vice President and Secretary of the Religious Studies Graduate Organization, is organizing a virtual, informal study group. He will be hosting a virtual reading and writing group every Monday from 5pm-6:30pm that is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. “This […]