The Religious Studies Program is excited to welcome Dr. Kathryn Lofton, currently the Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies and Professor of History and Divinity at Yale University to campus this March …
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2023 Ojibwe Winter Games coming to Madison this February!
Religious Studies Affiliate Professor Dr. Thomas A. Dubois (Folklore and German, Nordic, and Slavic +) is helping to bring the 2023 Ojibwe Winter Games to Madison! On Friday, February 3rd from 3PM to Sundown, stop …
Religion as Peoplehood: Native Americans, the Environment, and the Sacred Lecture by Professor Michael D. McNally
For the second in a series of events supported by the Our Shared Future Project, the Religious Studies Program brings Guggenheim Award-Winning Religion Scholar Professor Michael D. McNally to campus! He will present the lecture …
Support Religious Studies During Day of the Badger
The Religious Studies Program has received a $1000 match for Day of the Badger. Lasting for 1848 minutes over April 5th & 6th, Day of the Badger is a chance to support the University of …
RS Affiliate Professor Katrina Daly Thompson (African Cultural Studies) participating in Middle East Studies Program Monday Lecture Series
This online talk is being held over Zoom at 2pm (Central Time) on Monday, December 6, 2021. Registration is required. Like normative conceptions of binary sex and gender, scholars and laypeople alike often treat religious …
New Course for Spring 2020!
Check out Religious Studies’ new course! We are excited to announce that we have a new class offering for Spring! Consider adjusting your schedule to add RS 400-006 “Daoism through Religious Practice and Visual Cultures:, …
Fall 2019 RS Newsletter is here!
Check out RS happenings! We are well into the Fall semester, and our calendar of events is filling up! You can find out all the details in latest edition of our newsletter! Catch up on …
Welcome Professor Rock-Singer!
We are excited to announce that Dr. Cara Rock-Singer will join the UW Religious Studies Program as a tenure-track faculty member starting in Fall 2019. Dr. Rock-Singer received an A.B. in Molecular Biology from Princeton …
New Course for Fall!
In this course, students will explore what late twentieth and twenty-first century American religious life looks like from the perspective of women’s everyday lived experience. We will examine women’s participation in a range of traditions, …
Exciting Options for RS Summer Courses!
Religious Studies is pleased to be able to offer two course options this summer, including our first ever online course! Students can take the popular gateway course Exploring Religion in Sickness and Health (RS 102) …