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Shaun Casey, the former director of the State Department’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs, will deliver the 2019 Carleton College Ian Barbour Lecture on Religion and Modernity on Thursday,…

Associate Professor of Religion, Noah Salomon, has received a prestigious New Directions Fellowship from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a new project, “Thinking Islam across the Sunni-Shi‘i Divide: A…

In late October, when most Minnesotans are dreaming of better weather, an outgoing troupe of Hawaiian dancers left their warm island homes to visit Carleton College. During their stay, members…

Associate Professor of Religion Kristin Bloomer has been awarded a Senior Research Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), for…

Michael McNally, Professor of Religion, has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, one of the most prestigious grants in the scholarly world and in the arts, to complete a book, Native…

Signifying on Scriptures: The Black Atlantic Reads the King James Bible Vincent L. Wimbush is a scholar of religion and founding director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures, an independent…

Bardwell Smith, Distinguished Asian scholar and Professor Emeritus at Carleton College, walked the Shikoku pilgrimage route in sections on seven occasions between 1983 and 2002, including twice with 30-40 American…

Barbour Lecture on Religion and Modernity:  Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr., Princeton University, is the guest speaker for this event.  The title of his talk is “Democracy in Black:  How Race…

Louis Newman, John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Dean of the College, will be interviewed on Krista Tippett’s NPR program, “On Being” (formerly called,…

Anne E. Patrick, William H. Laird Professor of Religion and the Liberal Arts, Emerita, has published two online articles recently: “Women in the Church in the Age of Francis,” and…