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April 26, 2019
Religious Studies is proud to announce 2019 winners of the Donna Swaim International Award for Religious Studies: Amelia Symm and Robert Lisak.
The Donna Swaim International Award for Religious Studies enables academically-prepared Religious…
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April 17, 2019
Last week, Professor Andrea McComb Sanchez delivered lectures at a Barnard College/Columbia University and Yale University.
On April 8, Professor McComb Sanchez lectured on "Becoming a Tradition: Pueblo Indian Patron Saint Feast Days as Resistance…
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April 17, 2019
The Department of Religious Studies and Classics is happy to announce the winners of the Lionel Rombach and Ora Bretall Awards for the 2018-2019 academic year.
Awardees for the Ora Bretall Award are (alphabetical by last name): Lindsay Briese,…
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March 14, 2019
Three Religious Studies majors presented papers at the American Academy of Religion/Western Region annual conference.
This was just the second year that undergraduate papers have been accepted and the University of Arizona is the only university to…
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March 12, 2019
Brett Esaki recently published an article in CrossCurrents titled, “Japanese American Spiritual Ambiguity and Arts of Silence.” It describes the challenge of making political art that communicates an experience of ambiguity.
You can find the article…
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March 11, 2019
Religious Studies major Robert Lisak has been awarded the SILLC Global Award. This very competitive award will help fund Rob's participation in the Arizona in Hangzhou: Chinese Culture and Buddhism Study Abroad program.
Rob says "My…
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Feb. 14, 2019
College of Humanities double major Rob Lisak is featured as the UA Honors College student of the week.
Lisak majors in Religious Studies and East Asian Studies and talked with the Honors College about his experiences studying abroad in…
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Feb. 13, 2019
A $50,000 commitment from Dr. Ross Schwartzberg will establish a new scholarship for UA students majoring in Religious Studies for Health Professionals, as well as an annual lecture series focusing on health and religion.
Dr. Schwartzberg, who…
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Jan. 24, 2019
Professor Daisy Vargas has been selected to the 2019-2020 cohort of the Young Scholars in American Religion Program. The prestigious program aims to train and mentor the next generation of leading teachers and scholars in American religion. The…
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Dec. 19, 2018
Professor Simmons delivered a plenary address at The Dharma/Dhamma International Conference on Shaktatantra at Sanchi University of Buddhist-Indic Studies in Sanchi, India.
His address was titled "Navārṇa Mantra and Meaning: Bhāskararāya's…
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Dec. 7, 2018
Professor Andrea McComb Sanchez was recently interviewed by Christopher Conover of Arizona Public Media for the show "The Buzz." Professor McComb Sanchez was interviewed as part of an episode that centers on the winter solstice. The interview will…
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Nov. 13, 2018
On November 13, 2018, Prof. Rae Dachille's Tibetan Buddhism class (RELI 358) was joined by several prominent Tibetan ascetics and researchers, including Venerable Ani Thukden Dema, a nun studying as part of Emory Tibet Science Initiative (ETSI); …