University Library News

Each year the Department of Religious Studies selects three or four students from among its undergraduate majors and master’s students for special recognition.

This year the Department is pleased to announce the following award recipients:

• Sabina Mally (Robert Arrington Outstanding Undergraduate Award)
• Bishal Karna (Timothy Renick Outstanding Graduate Student Award)
• Sherri Hill (Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award)

Recipients were honored at the the Religious Studies Student Symposium, held on Tuesday, April 9 in the Troy Moore Library. The Student Symposium is an event at which undergraduate and graduate Religious Studies students present papers on their latest research. Congratulations to this year’s Department award recipients!

To learn more about Religious Studies, contact the Department or check out a few of the following books:

• Corrywright, Dominic. Get Set for Religious Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

• Cox, Harvey Gallagher. The Persistence of Religion: Comparative Perspectives on Modern Spirituality.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

• Dempsey, Corinne G. Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth: Adventures in Comparative Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

• Flood, Gavin D. The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in Our Strange World. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

• Olson, Carl. Religious Studies: The Key Concepts. New York: Routledge, 2011.

• Orsi, Robert A. The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.