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Associate Professor of Religious Studies Brent Rodriguez-Plate presented at several universities this spring. At each institution, he met with students who are using his 2014 book A History of Religion in 5½ Objects in their courses.

“Apocalypse Here; Reading the Natural World in Native American Mormon Visions,” by Associate Professor of Religious Studies Quincy Newell, appears as the lead article in the April issue of American Studies.

Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon, by Associate Professor of Religious Studies Quincy Newell, was recently released by Oxford University Press.

Students in “Religion and Modern Art” recently explored the Guggenheim Museum, as well as several other places where modern art meets spirituality in New York City, during a two-day trip to Manhattan.

To set foot in India’s Vishnupada temple, the most important site in the sacred city of Gaya, is to absorb a sense of place and purpose. With its niches, shrines, and statues, the temple is rich with information, and every object tells a story about Gaya’s complex history. This is why Associate Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek Amar wants students in his Dying, Death, and Afterlife course to experience Vishnupada inside and out.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Quincy Newell was recently appointed co-editor of the Mormon Studies Review, a publication of the University of Illinois Press.

Members of the Oneida Indian Nation of New York joined the Hamilton community to bring awareness to the American Indian experience in an event whose sponsors include the Religious Studies Department, through the dean of faculty.

The December 2018 issue of Revue Bénédictine, a leading journal of monastic and theological studies, features an article by Associate Professor of History John Eldevik: "A New Sermon on I Maccabees at Admont: Apocalyptic Thought, Biblical Exegesis, and Crusading in Twelfth-Century Bavaria."

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek Amar was invited to speak at Harvard symposium titled 'TRACE: Artisanal Intelligence, Material Agency, and Ritual Technology in South Asian Art' on Dec. 7 - 8.

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Seth Schermerhorn recently co-organized and presented on a panel in the Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting in Denver.