Prof. Martin Jacobs, Associate Professor of Rabbinic Studies and Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies
Travel literature has emerged over the last decade as a key theme of academic discourse, with Christian writers from the eighteen to twentieth centuries as the main focus. Prof. Jacobs hopes to change this trend with his new book project Re-Orienting the East: The Islamic World as Depicted in Medieval Jewish Travel Literature. ...Read More
Come and learn about the program in Religious Studies!
The John C Danforth Center on Religion and Politics has launched an online journal: Religion and Politics: Fit for polite company.
Whether you consider yourself a religious person or not, or whether you think religion has played a positive or negative role in history, it is an incontrovertible fact that from the beginning of time, humans have engaged in activities that we now call religion, such as worship, prayer, and rituals marking important life passages. ...Read More