Including important historical perspective from the Divinity School's Felicity Harley-McGowan. washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/… flissina

Proud of Prof. Hayes's role in leading the work of #6! - 7 Jewish Feminist Highlights of 2019 shar.es/a3Cmby

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 and grateful to announce that Yale’s departments of English and Religious Studies (RLST @ Yale) are co-sponsors of LAR@Y!

Featuring books and beautiful gowns, phd. | Franke Program, blending science and humanities, hits the right note news.yale.edu/2020/02/04/fra…

"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

The Revealer .books and beautiful gowns, phd. is a Ph.D. student in RLST @ Yale and Af-Am Studies. 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.

A bright spot in a dreary moment: Out today! Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Post Emancipation Virginia uncpress.org/book/978146965… about how black Virginians remade their churches and associations and in the process cultivated a politics of emancipation.

Congratulations, Profs. Dinkler, Tonstad, and Starr!

Statement from Yale Department of Religious Studies shar.es/aHhz6e

Great discussion between Noreen Khawaja, Sheila Heti, and Clare Carlisle - On Kierkegaard, Authenticity, and How to Be a Human disq.us/t/3ofw0rb

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.

NEW | "modernity" is the latest and final term on The Immanent Frame's #AUniverseofTerms series! Read new essays from Nancy Levene (RLST @ Yale), Jonathan Sheehan (UC Berkeley), and SherAli Tareen. Browse the complete collection of terms now. ow.ly/EDEw50A66k1

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.

Brilliant interview w Eboni Marshall Turman - The Black Church Has Always Resisted Anti-Blackness sojo.net/articles/black… via Sojourners

Great work from Cody Musselman - Survival of the CrossFittest: Can the Fitness Empire Shed its Culture of Whiteness? religiondispatches.org/survival-of-th…

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/Publica… Yale University Press

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 Yale Divinity School: youtu.be/jMi8JyTVt3U

Congratulations to Christine Hayes, appointed Sterling Professor of Religious Studies! news.yale.edu/2021/04/12/chr…