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November 3, 2017

Tomb of early classic Maya ruler found in Guatemala

from: The Source

The tomb of a Maya ruler excavated this summer at the Classic Maya city of Waka’ in northern Guatemala is the oldest royal tomb yet to be discovered at the site, the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala has announced.

“The Classic Maya revered their divine rulers and treated them as living souls after death,” said research co-director David Freidel, professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.

“This king’s tomb helped to make the royal palace acropolis holy ground, a place of majesty, early in the history of the Wak — centipede — dynasty. It’s like the ancient Saxon kings England buried in Old Minster, the original church underneath Winchester Cathedral.”

August 22, 2017

Law, Religion and Health in the United States

from: The Source

Should physicians be required to disclose their religious beliefs to patients? How should we think about institutional conscience in the health care setting? How should health care providers handle situations in which a family refuses treatment based on religious objections?  These questions and more are tackled in a new book, “Law, Religion and Health in the United States,” published by Cambridge University Press. The book is co-edited by Elizabeth Sepper, associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, along with I. Glenn Cohen of Harvard Law School and Holly Fernandez Lynch of the University of Pennsylvania.

July 10, 2017

Religious Studies Welcomes Elena Kravchenko

Elena Kravchenko will join the Washington University in St. Louis Program in Religious Studies as a lecturer this fall. Dr. Kravchenko received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017. Her dissertation is titled Orthodox Women in America: The Making of a Liberal-Conservative Subject. It is a multi-lingual, multi-site, three-year ethnographic study that explores the religious lives of contemporary Russian immigrant women in the United States and American women who convert to Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Her other research interests include Religion and Material Culture; Diasporic Religion/Trans-Atlantic Christianity/Orthodox Christianity in the United States; Embodiment, Agency and Subjectivity in the Study of Religion; and Religion, Gender, Race and Ethnicity.

This fall Dr. Kravchenko will be teaching “Thinking About Religion,” an introductory course that explores questions such as “what is religion and how can we study it?” She will also teach a seminar on “Religion in the Kitchen.” This course analyzes practices of food preparation and everyday talk, thereby highlighting the kitchen as an active, material space: not merely subject to human meaning-making, but an agent, in its own right, assisting humans in creating meaning and identity.

We are very excited to welcome Dr. Kravchenko to our program and to WashU!

June 27, 2017

Classics and Religious Studies Welcome Lance Jenott

Lance Jenott will join the Washington University in St. Louis Department of Classics and Program in Religious Studies as a lecturer this fall. Dr. Jenott received his PhD from Princeton University in 2011 and has taught courses on The New Testament, studies in Christian origins, and Coptic language and literature. His other teaching interests include Second Temple Judaism, Greco-Roman philosophy, classical civilizations, and theories and methods in the study of religion. Dr. Jenott is the author of The Gospel of Judas: Coptic Text, Translation, and Historical Interpretation of the ‘Betrayer’s Gospel, and the co-author of The Monastic Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices. He is currently working on a commentary on the Gospel of Judas for the Hermeneia Series by Fortress Press. We are very excited to welcome Dr. Jenott to our program and WashU!

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