NEWS AND EVENTS

CONFERENCE

The Religion, Literature and the Arts: Theology and Critique conference will take place March 27-29. Click on the following link for the schedule:

SEARCH NEWS

The University of Iowa Department of Religious Studies is pleased to announce the addition of Jordan Smith from Florida State University who has accepted the position of Lecturer in Biblical Studies. 

Student News

L. Calvin Lane, PhD student working in the Historical Religious Traditions area, has an article published in Vol. 7.2-3 of Reformation & Renaissance Review: Journal of the Society for Reformation Studies titled "The Evolution of Early Stuart Conformist Thought: The Liturgical Theology of John Donne," pp. 223-248.

Congratulations to Eliza Katherine Ahrens, Anne Nicole Raven, and Paul Joseph Sorenson, Religious Studies majors who have been invited to accept memberships in Phi Beta Kappa!

Daniel Morris, PhD student working in the Historical Religious Traditions area, presented a paper titled "William James and the Death of Liberal Protestantism" at a conference sponsored by the William James Society, the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, the Philosophy Department at Yale University and Yale Divinity Schoool October 19-20.

UIowa religion graduate student Pankaj Jain has been mentioned in several Indian Newspapers for his work in Sanskrit. Pankaj is working on his PhD with Professor Fred Smith. Below are links to several articles:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Indians_Overseas/Sanskrit_gaining_popularity_in_US_Europe/rssarticleshow/2190431.cms
http://www.hindustantimes.com/storypage/storypage.aspx?id=f61d5432-3258-4c80-9f11-1ddec805f284&MatchID1=4488&TeamID1=8&TeamID2=10&MatchType1=1&SeriesID1=1120&PrimaryID=4488&Headline=Popularity+of+Sanskrit+on+rise+in+US%2c+Europe
http://www.punjabkesari.com/frmChNewsDetails.aspx?uid=55220&CatName=Delhi

http://content.msn.co.in/News/National/NationalIANS_100707_0914.htm

Departmental Lectures

Faculty News

Death of Emeritus Professor David Belgum Dr. David Belgum, former Director of the Clinical Pastoral Education Program at UIHC and professor in the Department of Religious Studies, then School of Religion passed away on April 12, 2007. He was Director of the CPE program from 1964 until his retirement in 1987. In the School of Religion, he taught such popular courses as Religion and Personality, Psychological Perspectives on Religion, and Religion and Health. Dr. Belgum received his PhD in Psychology of Religion from Boston University in 1952 and completed training in Clinical Pastoral Education at the University of Michigan. Throughout the years he traveled to China, Pakistan, Mexico, Iceland, and Papua, New Guinea to study the cultural approaches to medical treatment. Dr. Belgum authored thirty-two books and booklets, including most recently "Dealing with Death, Dying, and Mourning," published in 2006. His last work, editing "Living with Parkinson's Disease," will be published this year. The faculty and staff of the Department of Religious studies will miss David who always took time to attend departmental events. We send our sincere condolences to his wife Kathie and his children, Karl, Kurt, and Kit.

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