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Congratulations to Christine Hayes, appointed Sterling Professor of Religious Studies!
news.yale.edu/2021/04/12/chr…
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We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!
Langston Hughes
read by Willie Jennings @YCAL_JWJ @YaleDivSchool: youtu.be/jMi8JyTVt3U
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Congratulations to Professor Kathryn Tanner! Her book "Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism" has won the AAR Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies.
aarweb.org/AARMBR/Publicatio… @yalepress
Great work from @cody_musselman - Survival of the CrossFittest: Can the Fitness Empire Shed its Culture of Whiteness? religiondispatches.org/survi…
Brilliant interview w @ebonithoughts - The Black Church Has Always Resisted Anti-Blackness sojo.net/articles/black-chur… via @sojourners
Congratulations to Sara Ronis, PhD '15! Sara has been granted tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in the Theology Department at St. Mary's University, San Antonio. Sara is an outstanding scholar and passionate teacher of ancient Judaism, focusing on rabbinic Judaism.
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NEW | "modernity" is the latest and final term on @ImmanentFrame's #AUniverseofTerms series! Read new essays from Nancy Levene (@RLSTYale), Jonathan Sheehan (@UCBerkeley), and @SheraliTareen. Browse the complete collection of terms now. ow.ly/EDEw50A66k1
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While Black people are disproportionately dying & others demand privilege to ignore this fact & while people are protesting the murder of another Black person by police, I think of the centuries-long struggle for recognition of Black humanity which this book tells tells a part.
“There’s a whole politics around mapping that I could not ignore,” says @NicoMyTurn in our interview abt her SOUL LIBERTY. We even share the screen w feature fm #OA @fulcrumpub edition @charleswatkinso #Berks2020 @uncpressblog YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=6zdCuPMo…
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A bright spot in a dreary moment: Out today! Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Post Emancipation Virginia uncpress.org/book/9781469655… about how black Virginians remade their churches and associations and in the process cultivated a politics of emancipation.
Great discussion between Noreen Khawaja, Sheila Heti, and Clare Carlisle - On Kierkegaard, Authenticity, and How to Be a Human disq.us/t/3ofw0rb
Congratulations, Profs. Dinkler, Tonstad, and Starr!
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.@AmbreLynae is a Ph.D. student in @RLSTYale and @YALEAFAMstudies. She works on the convergence of Black religion and popular culture, focusing on the emergence of various musical genres from women in the Black Holiness-Pentecostal tradition.
"American culture has yet to come to terms with its 'native sons' -- and this is just another way of saying that America has yet to come to terms with itself." -- Charles Long
Featuring @AmbreLynae | Franke Program, blending science and humanities, hits the right note news.yale.edu/2020/02/04/fra…
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Proud and grateful to announce that Yale’s departments of English and Religious Studies (@RLSTYale) are co-sponsors of LAR@Y!
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Nancy Levene asks, “If one’s precursors have laid down the centrality of ideology to scholarship itself, how does one change the story?” Read her new article on the concept of ‘religion’ in Jonathan Z. Smith and Edward Said, in the latest issue of HTR. cambridge.org/core/blog/2020…
Proud of Prof. Hayes's role in leading the work of #6! - 7 Jewish Feminist Highlights of 2019 shar.es/a3Cmby
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Including important historical perspective from the Divinity School's Felicity Harley-McGowan. washingtonpost.com/religion/… @flissina
