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Kristin Bloomer Publishes Article in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion Outside link
20 March 2025Professor Bloomer published an article titled, “Phantasms, Dreams, and Other Realities: Gender and Marian Performativity in South India”.
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Sonja Anderson Awarded Tenure
20 February 2025Professor Anderson arrived at Carleton in 2016 as a visiting professor and then began a tenure track position as assistant professor in 2017. She earned her BA in religious studies…
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Roger Jackson Gave A Talk
5 December 2024Roger Jackson, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, emeritus, gave a talk titled, “Rebirth: Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World” at the India International Centre,…
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Roger Jackson Publishes Book
7 November 2024Roger Jackson, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, emeritus, published a book in Shambhala Publications’ Lives of the Masters series titled, Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness.
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Louis Newman published an article
24 October 2024Louis Newman, John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, emeritus, published an article titled, “How to Help Your Students Succeed Academically in College,” which appeared in LINK For…
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Roger Jackson Gave a Lecture
24 October 2024Roger Jackson, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, emeritus, gave a lecture via Zoom on “Buddhist Emptiness and Buddhist Truths” to students in a seminar on “Buddhist…
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Kristin Bloomer has been awarded a Broom Public Scholarship
19 September 2024Kristin Bloomer has been awarded a Broom Public Scholarship of $1,000 to support research in
Sri Lanka conducted in concert with two young Tamil scholars from South India and several
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Asuka Sango Received a Grant
27 August 2024Asuka Sango, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, received a grant from the Japan Foundation – New York to shed light on Carleton’s large, forgotten collection of World War…
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Michael McNally Co-authors $1.5 Million Dollar Grant from the Mellon Foundation Outside link
9 July 2024A $1.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation will fund Carleton’s new Indigenous Engagement in Place initiative, a three-year project that will expand curricular and scholarly collaborations with Indigenous partners to enliven…
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Roger Jackson, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, emeritus, recently gave two Zoom talks related to his 2022 book Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in…
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Louis Newman Honored at Conference
30 January 2025Louis Newman, John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, emeritus, was honored at the recent annual conference of the Society of Jewish Ethics in a panel devoted…
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Roger Jackson Conducts Zoom Lecture on “Saraha and Sahaja”
18 January 2024Roger Jackson, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, emeritus, recently lectured via Zoom on “Saraha and Sahaja” to the Ocean Sangha, a community of students of the late Tibetan master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Religion Professors attend American Academy of Religion Conference in San Antonio, TX
19 December 2023This year’s annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion was held in San Antonio, Texas. In addition to attending sessions and delivering their own papers at the conference, Religion Department faculty also often enjoy re-connecting with Carleton’s religion major alums.
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Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor Laura Levitt Gives Lecture Entitled: The Objects That Remain Outside link
16 November 2023Dr. Laura S. Levitt is a Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies and Gender at Temple University. Dr. Levitt gave a lecture on her recent book, the Objects That Remain while visiting campus in November.
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Louis Newman interviewed on podcast – Shift: College Admissions in a Changing World Outside link
16 November 2023Louis Newman, John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, emeritus, was interviewed on the podcast Shift: College Admissions in a Changing World with Tyler York for an episode titled, “What students don’t know going into college that they need to know to succeed academically.”
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On Tuesday, October 24, the religion department hosted an event to display the illuminated handmade manuscripts of the Book of Revelation made in professor Sonja Anderson’s “Apocalypse How?” seminar. Dubbed the “Apocalypse Party,” students, faculty, and staff gathered in Leighton 426 to view the manuscripts and enjoy a meal of fried chicken, potatoes and coleslaw.
Read full article from the Carletonian.
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Louis Newman’s Gave Workshop on Teaching Students to Think Critically
3 November 2023Louis Newman, John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, emeritus, gave a workshop on teaching students to think critically at the national conference of Breakthrough Collaborative, a college access organization that serves first-gen, low-income students, on October 24 in Minneapolis.
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Roger Jackson Offered Zoom Workshop
26 October 2023John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, Emeritus, recently offered a half-day Zoom workshop titled, “Saraha: Poet of Gnostic Bliss” for students of the Jewel Heart Buddhist Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Professor Sonja Anderson Signs First Book Contract
27 April 2023Sonja Anderson, assistant professor of religion, signed a contract with Edinburgh University Press for her first book, “Idol Talk: False Worship in the Early Christian World.”
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Professor Emeritus Roger Jackson Lectures at Smith College and Publishes Article
20 April 2023Roger Jackson, John W. Nason professor of Asian studies and religion, emeritus recently lectured to students at Smith College on “Dzogchen and Mahamudra Meditation.” He also published an article titled “Rebirth without a Self” in the spring 2024 issue of Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine.