July 2021

Van A. HarveyReligious studies professor George Edwin Burnell, emeritus, and a devoted leader and builder of the department, died in his Palo Alto home on July 11. He was 95 years old. Harvey joined the Stanford School of Humanities and…

(July 11, 2021, JNS wire) The University of Haifa today announced that its religious studies laboratory has received a donation of $ 50,000 from the Illinois-based Wayfarer Foundation and board member Steve Sarowitz, a businessman.…

Harry "Skip" Stout's enthusiasm for the study of religion in American life is contagious. Just ask one of its former graduate students. Catherine Brekus '93 Ph.D. was a first year doctoral student at Yale in the fall of 1987 when she…

Over the past few months, with very little national attention, a controversy has developed over religious education in Birmingham, prompting local comparisons to Tennessee's famous "monkey trial" in 1925.It is at least from this perspective…

ISRAELL got it last month a new government - a "bad guy" meant to boost secular education and withhold money from schools that refuse to study subjects such as English, science and math. Image via YouTube This, along with the fact that…