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Professor Greg Johnson was recently quoted in an article in the Washington Post on the Dakota Access Pipeline. Greg Johnson, a Hawaiian religion expert and an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, said the indigenous protests are increasingly led by organizers who are “generating” religion...

Professor Holly Gayley just published her first book, Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet , with Columbia University Press. It came out in time for the American Academy of Relgion conference in San Antonio, November 19-22, 2016. The book chronicles the lives and letters of Khandro...

Alumnus of the Department of Religious Studies, John Lauer, was instrumental in helping to craft and pass a recent bill for healthcare for firefighters. John is pictured below with President Obama after the bill was passed. ,

Professor Johnson Featured in ThinkProgress Article Professor Greg Johnson lent his expertise to recent article on ThinkProgress about the events occuring at Standing Rock in North Dakota. Religion has long been a part of Native American protest movements, as has its connection to the environmentalist struggle. But religious scholars say...

The Department of Religious Studies welcomes a new cohort of eleven graduate students this year from around the United States and the world. Please join us in welcoming: Jeffrey Baron (University of California, Santa Cruz), advisee of Prof. Brian Catlos Bian Bingxia (South Central University for Nationalities), advisee of Prof...

Professor Terry Kleeman, of Religious Studies and Asian Languages and Civilizations, was recently interviewed by the New York Times about his new book " Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities ." Of Professor Kleeman the New York Times states: Terry F. Kleeman is a leading scholar of...

Religious Studies Professor Deborah Whitehead recently lent her expertise on the complexity of religion in the US to the Daily Camera . The article examines the demographics of Buddhism in Boulder in anticipation of the Dalai Lama's visit to CU in June 2016. Religious affiliation is tricky to measure, says...

Professor Holly Gayley and members of the Tibet Himalaya Initiative at their audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the occasion of his visit to CU Boulder. The Dalai Lama held two events at CU Boulder including a talk on "Educating the Heart and Mind" at Coors Events Center...

Alumna Nevada Drollinger (2015) will start a Ph.D. program in Religious Studies at Arizona State University in the fall, studying Burmese Buddhism with Professor Juliane Schober. Nevada (2nd from right in the photo) had a baby in March and came to Boulder for a reunion with Religious Studies faculty and...

Joshua Wright has accepted a fully-funded offer of admission to the Ph.D. program in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. He will continue to research American religious history from the late eighteenth century to the present, focusing on eschatology and the construction of religious authority in...