Faculty News

This Fall, Jaipur Literature Festival, the world's largest literary festival, will travel to Boulder, Colorado as a creative caravan of writers and thinkers, poets and balladeers. In true JLF fashion, the festival will start with a sublime morning music session and end with a riveting debate. Showcasing South Asia’s unique...

Religious Studies Professors Deborah Whitehead and Loriliai Biernacki are featured in a 9 News segment "People Planet: The Search for God." Click here to view the story.

Brilliantly, the Humanities Let Their Light Shine. Religious Studies faculty highlighted in new article from Steven Leigh, Dean of College of Arts & Science. (click here to read article)

The Department of Religious Studies made a strong showing at the international meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Francisco (November 19-22). Five members of the faculty and two graduate students participated in the meetings in various capacities. Chip Horner presented a paper entitled "Scientific Embodiment: Affective Dimensions...

Dominic Martinez, a recent MA graduate, and Professor Greg Johnson will be presenting papers on contemporary Native Hawaiian religious life at the upcoming Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual meeting in Sacramento. Martinez's paper considers intersections of Hawaiian and Mormon traditions, especially as expressed in renewed canoeing practices. Johnson's...

Public panel on "Ecumenism in Tibet" with Ringu Tulku, & Visiting Scholars took place Thursday, April 18th at 7p.m. in the British Studies Room on the 5th floor of Norlin Library. This was part of a conference titled, "Translating Buddhist Luminaries: A Conference on Ecumenism and Tibetan Translation." In nineteenth-century...

Professor Loriliai Biernacki was awarded the University of Colorado Marinus Smith Award for 2013. The award is given for having a significant impact on undergraduate education. The award will be given in a ceremony on April 13th, 2013.

Loriliai Biernacki gave two presentations at the Regional AAR in Denver, April 5-6, 2013, one on cognitive science and tantra, and the other as part of a panel discussing the work of Robert Orsi.

Lynn Ross-Bryant Pilgrimage to the National Parks: Religion and Nature in the United States Introduced by Jordan Sass and Deborah Whitehead ______ Sam Gill Dancing Culture Religion Introduced by John Thibdeau and Greg Johnson ______ Rodney Taylor Confucius, the Analects: The Path of the Sage Introduced by Joanna Piacenza and...

Associate Professor Brian Catlos will speak at the Multicultural Mosaic Foundation on March 13 on "Islamic Spain and Modern Western Culture, or What Bill Gates and Bob Dylan Owe to Medieval Islam." Hard as it may be to believe, if a small Muslim army had not conquered what was then...