Results for "religion"

Projects

Religious Worldviews Project

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The religious worldviews project examines how people develop and implement religious worldviews. Using survey data, survey experiments, textual analysis, and interviews, this project will illuminate how political,…

Religion, Race, and Place Project

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A multimethod project that examines the role of religious beliefs and institutions in shaping health guidance among marginalized populations. This project seeks to illuminate the multidimensional role of religion in…

Faculty

Kamran Aghaie

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, History, Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies
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Modern Islamic history; Shi'i symbols and rituals in modern Iran; modern Iranian history; Shi'ism; Islamic rituals; social and cultural history; religious and political discourses; historiography;…

Hina Azam

Affiliated Departments:
Religious Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Women's and Gender Studies
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Islamic law and jurisprudence, women and Islam

Pascale R Bos

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Center for European Studies, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, Comparative Literature, Germanic Studies, Humanities Program, Plan II Honors Program, Religious Studies, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
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Holocaust history; Holocaust representations (literature, film, art, monuments); Holocaust and gender; Holocaust and (trans-generational) trauma; Genocide Studies; Memory studies; Sexual Violence in armed conflict;…

Carolyn Brown

Affiliated Departments:
College of Pharmacy, Health Outcomes and Pharmacy Practice, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies
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Dr. Brown's research interests primarily involve understanding cultural and social elements that may impact both quality of care and therapeutic outcomes of patients with chronic illnesses, particularly ethnic…

Thomas Buckley

Affiliated Departments:
Rhetoric and Writing
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Magazine Writing and Editing, Education, Gospels

J Budziszewski

Affiliated Departments:
Government, Philosophy, Religious Studies, School of Law
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Professor Budziszewski specializes in political philosophy, ethical philosophy, legal philosophy, and the interaction of religion with philosophy. Among his research interests are classical natural law, virtue ethics…

Virginia Burnett

Affiliated Departments:
History, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Religious Studies
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religion in Latin America with focus on Protestantism and new religious movements in Latin America; ethnic identity in Latin America; intersection of religious and ethnic identity among the Maya; research about neo-…

Luis Carcamo-Huechante

Affiliated Departments:
Spanish and Portuguese, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
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Indigenous media and cultures in the Americas, with a focus on the movement of contemporary Mapuche poetry, the role of Indigenous voices on radio as well as the revitalization of Indigenous languages and cultures in…