Dr. Kathryn Lofton, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, to deliver lecture “Celebrity, Politics, Power” on March 23

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 …

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:, …

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) …