Department News

New Faculty

We are delighted to be joined this year by Assistant Professor Jason Carbine and Visiting Assistant Professor Rosemary Carbine.

New Courses

  • In January 2008, Visiting Professor Kent Gilbert offers "Christianity and the Arts."
  • Coming in the 2008 spring semester are: "Buddhism and Society," with Dr. Jason Carbine;"Christianity and U.S. Social Movements" with Dr. Rosemary Carbine; and "Women and Islam," with Whittier's Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Alanoud Alsharekh, and Dr. Marilyn Gottschall.
  • Coming in fall semseter 2008/ January Interim 2009: "Looking for Islam" with a Jan Term in Morocco. Dr. Gottschall and Dr. Gary Libman, Quaker Campus advisor, will be offering a team-taught course that examines representation, culture and religion in Morocco.The 3.5 week Jan Term course will be held in Fez, Morocco.

Other News

PROJECT: Mapping Local Religious Institutions

The Department of Religious Studies has begun to gather data on local religious institutions. The goals of our mapping project are several. We want: 1) to have a good, student-friendly data base for fieldwork sites as we continue to focus on the immediate community as our learning laboratory; 2) to make our data available to civic and community groups; and 3) to help inform students and interested others of the immense religious diversity in the area.

To visit our mapping project online, please click here.