Call for Papers: Protests, Power, and Prayer: Intersection of Activism, Culture, and Religion
October 16, 2019
4TH Annual RSGA Graduate Conference February 21-22, 2020 This conference will explore the intersections of religion and/or spirituality and activism as we seek to highlight instances of religious resistance, dynamics of power, and instances of socio-cultural change. Historically, religious individuals
Donald Trump and the Death of Evangelical Christianity
September 16, 2019
The Religious Right’s embrace of Donald Trump has fatally transformed American evangelicalism. This was the message Dartmouth Professor Randall Balmer delivered to a packed house of students, faculty and community members at the Pugh Hall Ocora on Tuesday, September
Ethics Cafes: Talk About What’s On Your Mind
August 30, 2019
The Intersections group on Ethics and the Public Sphere is convening a series of ethics cafes this fall. The cafes are opportunities for students to talk about the moral dimensions of public issues they care about and learn from their
Q&A with New Faculty in Global Islam
August 27, 2019
The UF Religion Department is excited to welcome the Izzat Hasan Sheikh Fellow in Islamic Studies and Assistant Professor of Religion Dr. Ali Altaf Mian to Gator Nation! Dr. Mian received his B.A. in Philosophy and M.A. in English from the University of
Religion prof explains the backstory to The Overstory and its “dark green religion”
June 11, 2019
During an interview in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Richard Powers indicated that in The Overstory, his Pulitzer Prize-winning arboreal novel, there is a lot of what University of Florida religion professor Bron Taylor called “Dark Green Religion” in his