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Religious Studies Newsletter, October Vol. 1

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   October 13, 2021

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Scavenger Hunt...Continues!

   October 11, 2021

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 which we will anounce the first...

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Scavenger Hunt...Begins!

Religious Studies Scavenger Hunt
   October 4, 2021

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...

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Religious Studies Newsletter, September Vol. 2

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   September 24, 2021

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Faculty Spotlight

RELS Students Begin Faculty Spotlight Series. Today: Dr. Will Sherman
   September 24, 2021
"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...

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Religious Studies Newsletter, September Vol. 1

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   September 10, 2021

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Religious Studies Virtual Informal Study Group Forming

David Flaherty, MA student in RELS, is Organizing an Informal Reading / Writing Group
   September 8, 2021
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.
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Congratulations to Dr. Thiede On Her New Book

Check Out Dr. Barbara Thiede's Most Recent Publication
   September 7, 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Barbara Thiede on her recent publication of Male Friendship, Homosociality, and Women in the Hebrew Bible: Malignant Fraternities. Routledge, 2021.

Brief summary:

"Male alliances, partnerships, and...

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RELS Student Featured in Exchange, UNC Charlotte's CLAS Online Magazine

Annie Burchill discusses her path to leadership at UNC Charlotte and offers advice to new students
   May 26, 2021

Annie Burchill has distinguished herself at UNC Charlotte as she completed majors in Religious Studies and Criminal Justice and a minor in Urban Youth and Communities, graduating in May 2021 with ambitious plans to make a difference in the world.

“I recently submitted my intent to enroll at UNC Charlotte for my M.A. in Religious Studies,” Burchill says. “After that… who...

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RELS Master's Student David Flaherty Wins Summer FLAS Scholarship

David Flaherty to Study Hindi at UW-Madison South Asia Language Institute
   April 28, 2021
Congratulations to David Flaherty, a Master's student in the Department of Religious Studies, who was awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) scholarship to continue his Hindi studies at the South Asia Language Institute (SASLI) at UW-Madison this summer....

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Dr. Julia Moore on Charlotte's Brooklyn Neighborhood

   March 2, 2023

Please take a moment today to watch Dr. Julia Moore talk about the heartbreaking history of Charlotte's Brooklyn neighborhood on WBTV's On Your Side

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Guarded by Two Jaguars: A Blog Post by the Author

   January 17, 2023

Dr. Hoenes del Pinal published some thoughts on his monograph, Guarded by Two Jaguars: A Catholic Parish Divided by Language and Faith (University of Arizona Press, 2022). Read here

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Dr. Sherman Is Heading to Heidelberg

   January 17, 2023

Dr. William E.B. Sherman has been awarded a fellowship to the ...

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What is E2M?

   January 16, 2023

Dr. Julia Robinson Moore is very busy working on the various facets of her new project, E2M: Equity in Memory and Memorial. 

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Dr. Thiede and The Shiloh Project

   January 9, 2023

The Bible and Violence is a whole lot more than a two-part book; it’s a wide-ranging scholarly endeavor that includes creating intellectual community through workshopping, mentoring, training, and research events. Scholars involved are reading each other's works, meeting and talking through their interests and concerns, and learning directly from one another in a host of different...

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Learn About Material Culture

   January 3, 2023

Dr. Kaloyanides and Dr. Kati Curts's special issue explores four key categories: “Material,” “Economies,” “Religion,” and “America(s).” The ambition of this issue is that the collective inquiries of its 21 authors, which span various interpretive histories and genealogical fragments, can offer...

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Reviews of Dr. Thiede's Monograph

   July 15, 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Barbara Thiede on her recent publication of Male Friendship, Homosociality, and Women in the Hebrew Bible: Malignant Fraternities. Routledge, 2021.

Brief summary:

"Male alliances, partnerships, and friendships are fundamental to the Hebrew Bible. This book offers a detailed and explicit exploration of the ways in which shared...

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