faculty news

Professor Eli Sacks Hosted the Embodied Judaism Event in NovemberIn April 1969, on the first anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Jewish and African-American activists came together in Washington, D.C. to share a

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

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

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

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

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-BryantPilgrimage to the National Parks: Religion andNature in the United StatesIntroduced by Jordan Sass and Deborah Whitehead______Sam GillDancing Culture ReligionIntroduced by John Thibdeau and Greg Johnson______Rodney TaylorConfucius,