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In the past ten years, WFAE has featured Sean McCloud on Magic in the United States (2023); Kent Brintnall on Same Sex Marriage and the Church (2016) and Grappling With Scandals Within Religious Institutions (2018); Sean McCloud on WFAE Superstitions and Why We Believe Them (2013), Rise of the Nones (2014), and Changing Religious Landscape […]

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The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte invites applications for the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, beginning Fall 2022. Rank: tenured Associate or Full Professor. The particular area of expertise is open. We encourage applications from scholars who have achieved national and international recognition and […]

The Religious Studies Graduate Organization in the Department of Religious Studies at UNC Charlotte is proud to announce its 5th annual graduate student conference on Friday, April 29, 2022 virtually. The theme for this year’s conference is Religion & Futurity: Elsewhere, Elsewhen, and Beyond. Within this theme, we begin to ask: How has the field […]

What constitutes a research gap? And what do we–as scholars, artists, activists, and communities–do with these gaps? The English Graduate Student Association and Religious Studies Graduate Association are excited to present Bridging the Gap: A Graduate Research Symposium, a virtual symposium that welcomes papers and artistic expressions that celebrate intertextuality, pastiche, and the interdisciplinary nature […]

Trina Rumfelt, Graduate MA Student in Religious Studies Trina chose to pursue Religious Studies at both the undergraduate and graduate level because it allows her to develop a better understanding of people, their socialization practices, and cultural influences. Her research focus today is Judaism/Early Christianity and why the various dating proposals regarding the Dead Sea […]

The Department of Religious Studies would like to congratulate David Flaherty, a Master’s student studying South Asian religions, cultures, and histories, on being awarded the “Meyer-White Study Away Grant.” This grant, as sponosored and funded by William and Barbara Branch, helps to fund student research that takes them outside of North Carolina and is named […]

Check out all the great courses being offered by the RELS faculty this spring 2022! Undergraduate Courses Graduate Courses

Lindsay Carroll, Religious Studies MA Graduate Lindsay Carroll was first introduced to Hinduisim through yoga, and pursued her master’s degree in Religious Studies as a way to gain more in-depth knowledge of Hinduism. As an artist, the graduate thesis process allowed her to refine her ability to commit to extended creative and scholarly endeavors. She […]