News
Dr. Diana Abernethy
Friday, November 16, 2018Diana Abernethy, of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, successfully defended her dissertation November 13, 2018. Her dissertation was titled "Profiles in Deception: Lying and Falsehood in 1 Samuel." Dr. Stephen B. Chapman directed the dissertation, and Carol L. Meyers, Anathea Portier-Young,... Read More »
Dr. Yael Lazar
Friday, November 16, 2018Yael Lazar successfully defended her doctoral dissertation "Networked Devotion: Hindu Adoption of Digital Media" November 14, 2018. Yael, Oren and children will be moving back to Israel in December. Pictured are Negar Mottahedeh, Laurie Patton (remote), Yael Lazar, Leela Prasad (chair), and... Read More »
Teaching & Learning Holds Session on Scholars@Duke
Thursday, October 25, 2018As part of the Teaching and Learning Luncheon, we were joined by Julia Trimmer and Lamont Cannon from Duke’s Office of the Provost, Finance and Administration to learn about Scholars@Duke which features the research, scholarship and activities of Duke faculty members and academic staff. As a... Read More »
Chris Howell's Class Featured in Chronicle Article
Wednesday, October 24, 2018Chris Howell, PhD student in American Religion, was quoted in an article by The Chronicle for his upcoming class "Harry Potter and Religion." Read more here.
Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity
Monday, October 15, 2018Jill Hicks-Keeton, a Duke Graduate Program in Religion alumna, has released her new book, Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity. One of the central controversies of the early church was whether or not gentile converts would be required to be circumcised... Read More »
Duke is Well Represented at AAR/SBL
Monday, October 15, 2018A number of GPR students and faculty will be presenting in the AAR/SBL to be held in Denver, Colorado November 17-20. The annual conference of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature is perhaps the most important conference of the year for those in the field of... Read More »
Illuminating Justice
Monday, October 1, 2018A first-year PhD student in Duke's Graduate Program in Religion, Jonathan Homrighausen has recently published a new book. Illuminating Justice explores the call to social ethics in The Saint John's Bible, the first major handwritten and hand-illuminated Christian Bible since the... Read More »
A Live Retrospective: 2017-2018
Monday, October 1, 2018Wen Reagan, an alumnus of the Graduate Program in Religion, has recently released a new live album: "A Live Retrospective: 2017-2018!" These recordings are the sounds of teachers, physicians, accountants, students, speech therapists, and engineers, all volunteers in a 200-person... Read More »
Alumna Dr. Mani Rao's Book Release
Thursday, September 27, 2018Asian Religions alumna Mani Rao's new book Living Mantra was just released in the Palgrave Macmillan Contemporary Anthropology of Religion series. "An intellectual journey through mantra practice at three Goddess-centered mantra communities in Andhra-Telangana, India Combines narrative,... Read More »
Dr. Scott Muir Reflects on "Postdoc Purgatory"
Thursday, September 27, 2018Recent alumnus Scott Muir reflects on his journey searching for tenure-track jobs while writing his dissertation, and where it has led. Read more here.