Department of Religion News & Events
Religion major Kelly McArdle's summer creation
Temple News highlights Kelly's creation for Saxbys. Check out their story here and don't forget to stop by the coffee shop to try it yourself!.
Religion students are recognized for their hard work
Jason Greenwood, a double major in Religion and Anthropology will receive the Sara M. Halpen Award and the Religion Department Prize for Academic Excellence and the Claude C. and Mary Carson Bowman Award for excellence in the social sciences. She is attending the master's program in Higher Education Management at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Hannah Lents, an Anthropology major who is minoring in Religion, was awarded the Irving J. Leder and Beatrice Deglin Leder Award. Hannah will be attending the master's program in Classics and Archeology at Brandeis University.
Dennis Carroll will be going to the master's of Divinity program at Yale Divinity School.
Anne Marie Dean-Hansen will be attending the master's of Theological Studies program at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.
Eric Grammond is the recipient for the Religion Department Merit Prize.
Chris Palmer has received a scholarship to study theology during his junior year at St. Andrew's University in Edinburgh, UK.
Chris Conrad will be attending George Washington University on full-fellowship to study Political Science.
Graduate Alum Ann Marie Bahr receives Human Rights Award
Ann Marie Bahr, of South Dakota State University, received the 2012 Dorothy and Eugene T. Butler Human Rights Award for her work on interfaith dialogue, and for raising awareness of non-Christian religions. More information regarding this award can be found here.
TUDOR Student Selected to attend DivEx 2012!
Congratulations to Dennis Carroll, an undergraduate student in the Department of Religion! Dennis was selected by the Harvard Divinity School to attend the 2012 Diversity and Explorations (DivEx) program November 6th - 8th. The selection process for this program is rigorous and competitive, and we know Dennis will represent Temple well. More information about this excellent program can be found here.
Temple University Department of Religion Hosts Breakfast Reception at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois
Join us for this year's American Academy of Religion & Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, November 17-20, 2012 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois. Temple University is hosting a Breakfast for all TUDOR faculty, students, and alumni on Sunday, November 18 from 7:00 am - 8:45 am in the West Building, Room W196A. More information can be found on the AAR and SBL websites. We hope to see you there!
Karen McCarthy Brown receives the 2011 Department of Religion Distinguished Alumnus Award
The 2011 Temple University Department of Religion Distinguished Alumnus Award is tendered to Dr. Karen McCarthy Brown, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Drew University. The Award comes in recognition of the numerous important contributions that Brown has made to the academic study of religion and to the public understanding of religion. It also recognizes her most laudable service to religious communities whose faith traditions are often misrepresented and maligned in American public discourse. In such a capacity has Brown helped to assure the respect of religious freedom in the United States, one of the cherished principles on which our nation was founded. One would thus be hard pressed to find among the more than 400 graduates of our storied doctoral program – among whom are counted, some of the brightest luminaries in the academy – anyone who better exemplifies Temple’s mission “to create new knowledge that improves the human condition and uplifts the human spirit.”
Brown’s scholarly achievements and standing in the field bring further distinction to her alma mater, where in 1975 she successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on the symbolic system of Haitian Vodou, "The Veve of Haitian Vodou: A Structuralist Analysis of Visual Imagery,” under the direction of the late, great scholar of Caribbean religions Professor Leonard Barrett. Brown would later, in 1990, publish Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, which is widely considered a classic in the anthropology of religion and in feminist anthropology, and which is widely used in college and university classes throughout the United States. The book is now in its third edition and currently being translated into French. The Department of Religion is honored to count Karen McCarthy Brown among its most distinguished alumni.
Previous Recipients of the Temple University Department of Religion Distinguished Alumnus Award:
2010: Dr. Alwi Shihab, Special Indonesian Envoy to the Middle East and the Organization for Islamic Unity and formerly Foreign Minister for Indonesia (Ph.D. 1995)
2009: Dr. Joseph M. Murphy, Paul J. (C'62) and Chandler M. Tagliabue Distinguished Professor in Interfaith Studies and Dialogue, Georgetown University (Ph.D. 1980)
2008: Dr. Nancy Fuchs Kreimer, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Multifaith Studies and Initiatives, Reconstructionist Rabbincal College (Ph.D. 1990)
2007: Dr. James Zogby, President and Founder, Arab-American Institute (Ph.D. 1975)
2006: Dr. Colleen McDannell, Professor of History and Sterling M. McMurrin Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Utah (Ph.D. 1984)