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For our upcoming Spring 2021 courses, see our provisional course schedule here. Spring 2021 Courses (Updated November 11, 2020)Here are the courses we are offering for the Spring 2021 semester! (Click on each slide for a PDF version of the poster.)Note that many of the posters have not yet been updated with the revised class meeting times for Spring 2021, so be sure to check our spring course schedule as well as ConnectCarolina for the most up-to-date scheduling and meeting room information. Fall into your Major Interview with Professor Bayne and Professor Cooper Professor Brandon Bayne and Professor Andrea Cooper were interviewed by Erin Villeneuve, an Academic Advisor in The College of Arts and Sciences at UNC, as part of a virtual “Fall into your Major” event. Posted in News Events on September 28, 2020 A Distinguished Scholar Webinar featuring Bart D. Ehrman Bart D. Ehrman, James A. Gray Professor of Religious Studies, is the author or editor of more than 30 books, including the forthcoming Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife. In this webinar, organized by Carolina Public Humanities, he will examine views of the afterlife from the Ancient Near East, Greek, and Roman cultures, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the early centuries of the church, showing where the ideas of paradise and hell came from and how they became a dominant religious view in the West.This webinar is a virtual event. Tuition is $40, which includes “admission” to the webinar in real time (with live Q A). Registrants will receive instructions for accessing the event online by the morning of November 5.The webinar will take place from 5:00 pm 8:00 pm on both Nov. 5 and 6. For further details and to register, click here! Posted in Faculty News on September 22, 2020 Dr. Youssef Carter Joins the Department as Assistant Professor The Department of Religious Studies is delighted to welcome Dr. Youssef Carter to the faculty as Assistant Professor and Kenan Rifai Fellow in Islamic Studies. Dr. Carter holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California-Berkeley and is an expert in Sufism and Islam in West Africa and the United States. His book in progress, The Vast Oceans: Remembering God and Self on the Mustafawi Sufi Path, examines the discourses and practices of a transatlantic Sufi spiritual network through detailed ethnographic work. Dr. Carter was previously awarded a College Postdoctoral Fellowship from Harvard University, where he also received a Certificate of Teaching Excellence from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. This coming Fall semester, Dr. Carter will be teaching the course RELI 580, African-American Islam. Please join us in welcoming Youssef to the department! Posted in Faculty News on July 1, 2020 Message to 2020 Graduating Seniors Below is a message to this year s graduating seniors in the Department of Religious Studies from our Chair, Prof. Barbara Ambros. Warmest congratulations to all our graduates! Posted in Undergraduate Accomplishments on May 9, 2020 RELI Undergraduate Awards for 2020 Our department is pleased to announce the following undergraduate awards for 2020:Alexandra Barnes has been chosen as the recipient of the Bernard Boyd Memorial Prize in Religious Studies, which is a $500 award given annually for academic achievement by a senior religious studies major or double major. Alexandra is a double major in Religious Studies and History (with a concentration in US history) who intends to complete a gap-year internship after graduation with the chaplains at the hospice house in her hometown. She is also considering pursuing further education in religious studies at a divinity school.Quinn Eury and Olivia Giroux are co-recipients of the Halperin-Schütz Undergraduate Essay Award. This essay competition recognizes outstanding undergraduate scholarship in the study of religion, as evidenced by a paper written in a Religious Studies or Jewish Studies class, or by a part of a senior honors thesis. It also comes with a monetary prize.Quinn Eury (essay title: Transgressive Gendered Behavior and the Stability of Ma at ) is a senior Archaeology and Anthropology double major whose main interests include zooarchaeology, conflict archaeology, and houseplants. Olivia Giroux (essay title: A Broken System: Redefining Mental Healthcare for Muslim Women in America ) is a junior and a double major in Biology and Religious Studies; her areas of interest range from ancient religions to the intersection of science and religion in the modern world.While we are disappointed that we will not be able to hold our usual awards ceremony this year, we are keeping open the possibility of recognizing these students at a future event. We extend them our warmest congratulations! Posted in Undergraduate Accomplishments on April 15, 2020 Bart Ehrman on NPR’s Fresh Air Professor Bart Ehrman was on NPR s Fresh Air with Terry Gross last week, where he discussed his brand new book titled Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (Simon Schuster, 2020). In this book, Prof. Ehrman takes on the questions: where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from, and why do they endure? He recounts the long history of the afterlife and helps us reflect on where our ideas of it come from.Listen to the interview in the player below, or on the NPR website.https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2020/03/20200331_fa_01.mp3 Posted in Faculty Publications on April 6, 2020 (Updated July 21, 2020)Here are the courses we are offering for the Fall 2020 semester! (Click on each slide for a PDF version of the poster.)Note that many of the posters have not yet been updated with the revised class meeting times for Fall 2020, so be sure to check our fall course schedule as well as ConnectCarolina for the most up-to-date scheduling and meeting room information.

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