Guest Speakers

The Department of Religious Studies will be bringing in as well as sponsoring distinguished guest speakers throughout the year. 

2012-2013

Tues., March 5, 2013

Dr. Quincy Newell of UW Religious Studies, will present "Marginal Mormons: Race and Religious Identity in the Noneteenth-Century Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" on Tues., March 5, 2013 at 4:10 p.m. in Classroom Building, Room 222.

• Abstract: The conventional wisdom is that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is and always has been almost entirely white.  However, both African Americans and Native Americans have formed a part of the church since its founding in the nineteenth century.  This talk explores some of the ways in which race and religious experience shaped one another for some of these early non-white Mormons.

Mon., January 28, 2013

Dr. June McDaniel of Charleston University, will present "When Many Gods Become One God: Indonesia & the Unity of the World Religions" on Mon., January 28, 2013 at 4:10 p.m. in Classroom Building, Room 214.

• Field of Study: Scholar of Religion; History of Religion; World Religions; Religion in India and Indonesia
• Publications: Perceiving the Divine through the Human Body, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011; Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004; Making Virtuous Daughters and Wives:  An Introduction to Women's Brata Rituals in Bengali Folk Religion, Albany: SUNY Press, 2003; The Madness of the Saints: Ecstatic Religion in Bengal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

October 7 - 31, 2012

Manifold Greatness Exhibit. Detailed information available here. 

Tues., September 25, 2012

Dr. Steven Prothero of Boston University, will present on Tues., September 25, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. in the Arts & Sciences Auditorium.