Religion, Social Movements, and Social Change
This class explores the role of religion in movements for social change. We will address core questions in study of social movements – how movements emerge, why people join, how ...
Read moreWhy Study Religion at UF?
Religion has always been with us. Throughout history, it has expressed the deepest questions human beings can ask, and it has taken a central place in the lives of virtually ...
Read moreThe Pentateuch
The modern study of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) effectively began in the nineteenth century, when scholars, through painstaking critical analysis of the biblical text, discovered that the Pentateuch (the first five ...
Read moreWhy Study Religion at UF?
Religion is arguably the most powerful and pervasive force in the world. Majoring in religious studies can help you understand the complex and sometimes volatile relationships between religion and politics, ...
Read moreSpirituality and Health Care
In the twenty-first century, spirituality and health care are intersecting in new ways. Traditional and indigenous medical practices are increasingly being sanctioned by and integrated with Western biomedicine. Health providers ...
Read moreAnnouncement
Due to the Covid-19 virus, the Department of Religion is temporarily shut down. If you need any assistance please contact our office manager, Annie Newman (annen1@ufl.edu), or our chair, Terje ...
Read moreWelcoming the Stranger: Immigration and American Values
The question of immigration has always been a point of debate in American politics and public life. As the United States heads into another presidential election, the dispute over immigration ...
Read moreUF Religion at AAR/SBL 2019 in San Diego, California
The American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting brings thousands of professors and students, authors, publishers, religious leaders, journalists, and interested laypersons to its Annual Meeting each year. Co-hosted ...
Read moreBecoming American, Keeping My Religion: Religion and Identity Among Second Generation New Immigrant College Students
Pressures from the left and the right are shaping the next generation of American Islam creating new forms of identity and community. This was the argument Haroon Moghul offered in ...
Read moreReligion and the Paranormal
As many as three-quarters of Americans believe in ghosts. The majority hold other paranormal beliefs as well. What does this tell us about the future of religion? In a “disenchanted” ...
Read moreCall for Papers: Protests, Power, and Prayer: Intersection of Activism, Culture, and Religion
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, ...
Read moreDonald Trump and the Death of Evangelical Christianity
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 ...
Read moreEthics Cafes: Talk About What’s On Your Mind
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 ...
Read moreQ&A with New Faculty in Global Islam
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 ...
Read moreReligion prof explains the backstory to The Overstory and its “dark green religion”
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 ...
Read more2019-2020 Scudder Lecture Series Addresses Relevant Topics in Religion
The UF Department of Religion is excited to announce the first three speakers in its 2019-2020 Scudder Lecture series. The speakers, each leading scholars in their respective fields, will bring relevant ...
Read moreProfessor Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons’ Retirement: A Look Back
Our very own Assistant Professor Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons devoted her life to civil rights, the public understanding of religion, justice, and international human rights. Now, she is entering into a ...
Read moreUF Religion Undergrads Present Research on Catholic Vaporwave Art
What do you get when you mix traditional Catholicism with Vaporwave art? The answer is, “TradWave.” TradWave is a microgenre of “cultural traditionalist themed vaporwave art with Catholic motives.” Vaporwave itself ...
Read moreNew Mellon-funded program led by UF Religion faculty, graduate students
The University of Florida (UF) Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere launched its Intersections Research-Into-Teaching Grants earlier this year, made possible with $400,000 in funding from The Andrew ...
Read moreUF alum elected to Department of Religion’s Advisory Board
Louis Reinstein of the law firm Kelly Kronenberg was elected to serve as a Board Member for the University of Florida’s Department of Religion’s Advisory Board. Established in the 1980s, the Advisory ...
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