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Dr. Lynn Neal's Fall 2009 course "Religious Sects and
Cults" class created the six displays in the entrance to ZSR Library. You can see the display from here.
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Religion's Simeon Ilesanmi
named newest Wake Forest Professor
----Simeon Ilesanmi has been appointed to a Wake Forest Professorship as the Washington M. Wingate
Professor of Religion.
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Visiting Scholar to Teach on Love and Death
Professor Marc Hirshman, a visiting scholar from Hebrew University, will teach a 3-hour course called "Rel 390/60: Love & Death" this fall. The half-semester course focuses on Rabbinic and Patristic interpretations of Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes. For more information, contact Sheila Lockhart. |
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Q & A with Dr. Neal
Window on Wake Forest recently held a question and answer session with Prof. Lynn Neal regarding her research on Christian romance novels. You can read the story here.
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Dr. Hoglund has been appointed Chair of the Executive Committee of The Southeastern Commission
for the Study of Religion.
http://groups.wfu.edu/secsor
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WOWF Profiles Portraits of Hate, Lessons of Hope
Dr. Lynn Neal's Spring 2008 course on religious intolerance in the United States created a website devoted to studying images of religious intolerance in America. Click here to read an interview about the project with Dr. Neal and student Matt Triplett from Window on Wake Forest. |
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2008 M.A. Candidate Linda Randall Appears in Article
Linda Randall, a 2008 MA Candidate in the Department of Religion was recently featured in the Greensboro News & Record in an article titled "Amen, boss, amen." Randall is interested in religion and culture and she has written a thesis on Bruce Springsteen and spirituality. The article is about the profound meaning which listeners can find in Springsteen's music.
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Religion Students Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
The Department of Religion is happy to announce its newest class of religion students inducted in the Wake Forest University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa! Click Here to View Press Release.
The students so honored are: Benjamin David Cotey, of Kingsport, TN;
Margaret Ann Jarrell, of Columbus, GA;
Eric Ferriday Lange, of Indianapolis, IN; and Peter Ward Youngblood, of Fletcher, NC. We are proud of their accomplishment! |
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Wake Forest Magazine features Assistant Prof. Lynn Neal
"Surprising Spirituality: Connecting popular culture and contemporary religious life," is the title of a recently published special feature by the Wake Forest Magazine which spotlights the first-year seminar work of Dr. Lynn Neal and her students. Click Here to read article, as well as access multimedia resources including audio and video clips relating to the first-year seminar and Dr. Neal's other work. |
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Dr. Neal Accepted to Wabash Center Workshop
Assistant Professor of Religion Dr. Lynn S. Neal has been accepted into a workshop sponsored by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. The week-long workshop, held in Corpus Christi, Texas, gathers 15 religion scholars in their first years of teaching. As a group, the scholars and organizers will explore topics such as: course design, ethics in the classroom, religious, social, ethnic, racial, and learning diversities in the classroom, philosophy of education, among others.
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Dr. Boyd Receives 'Building the Dream' Award
Professor Steve Boyd, chair of the Religion Department, was the 2007 recipient of the 'Building the Dream Award,' given during the sixth annual WSSU & WFU joint Martin Luther King Jr. celebration on January 15, 2007. The 'Building the Dream' Award was established to honor one professor or administrator and one student from either WSSU or WFU who exemplifies the ideals that King embodied and ultimately died for.
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| Dr. Foskett Receives Omicron Delta Kappa Award for Contribution to Student Life |
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Dr. Mary Foskett was awarded the Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award for Contribution to Student Life at the Founder’s Day Convacation, February 21, 2006. The Omicron Delta Kappa Society, Inc., the National Leadership Honor Society for junior and senior college students, introduced the ODK Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Life in 1982 to acknowledge a faculty member deemed extraordinarily dedicated to the continued betterment of student life. In 1997, Lifetime University trustee Pete Kulynych and his family generously endowed the award. Since then, it has remained the only student-chosen faculty award that is both honorary and monetary.
What follows is a brief excerpt from Brett Turner’s (President of ODK) presentation of the award at the Convocation:
[Dr. Foskett] not only stands for the ideals of the Kulynych award, but reflects the very best of what a professor can become as a part of the Wake Forest community. In the words of some of Dr. Foskett’s own students: "She succeeds in combining unflinching academic professionalism with a genuine and sincere concern for the lives of students and the health of our on-campus community ... she stands for the integrity of the University’s mission”
Her students also recognize her exemplary dedication to scholarship and research, her care for the everyday challenges of student life, and the calm and welcoming atmosphere which she is able to create in the classroom. “As a teacher, she is unparalleled in her ability to invite students into new experiences and ideas.” One student observes that, “while she never allows us to settle, she can meet us where we are; and more than any professor I know, her door is always open...And what is more—-she actively extends the invitation to students who she feels may be distressed by the weight of work, or sometimes just life itself.” |
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