News / Posts from Religion http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/religion/news_events/ Reason Carleton College, 2008 Sophia Paraschos won an Honorable Mention in the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:35:53 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/religion/news_events/?story_id=339959 Robert Alter, a scholar whose commentary is used in Louis Newman's class Patriarchs, Priests, Prophets and Poets, has written an article for Slate detailing how he translated the Book of Psalms. Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:19:24 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/religion/news_events/?story_id=333425 Periodic profiles from The Christian Science Monitor looking in to the various faiths and values of the 2008 presidential candidates. Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:17:10 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/religion/news_events/?story_id=331900 A gray whale, an animal traditionally hunted by the Makah people of Neah Bay, Washington, was recently killed in an illegal hunt. The Makah whale hunt of 1999 is studied in Michael McNally's class on Native American Religious Freedom. The recent unauthorized hunt was undertaken in part by Wayne Johnson, the leader of the 1999 hunt. Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:00:57 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/religion/news_events/?story_id=327791 A national assembly of Evangelical Lutherans urged its bishops not to discipline gay and lesbian ministers who violate a celibacy rule. But the assembly declined to change its rule banning ordination of non-celibate homosexuals. Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:40:48 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/religion/news_events/?story_id=327764 Department Meet-and-Greet to take place next Monday Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:20:25 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/religion/news_events/?story_id=327745 The Department of Religion is preparing to close its doors for the year, which is, as usual, a process of comings and goings. The class of 07 is off into the world as is Shahzad Bashir, who will be teaching next year at Stanford. Meanwhile, new faculty member William Elison will be joining the department in the fall, along with one of the biggest classes of majors in some time. The website, for its part, will be on hiatus over the summer months, to be taken up again in the fall, along with NumeNews. We hope that the site will grow over time into a meeting place for students past present and future, so please do not hesitate to contact Jill with stories, comments, and questions in the future. Tue, 29 May 2007 11:02:06 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/religion/news_events/?story_id=307373 Our own Peter Berry applies his knowledge of Norse mythology to move into the final round of Carleton's Biggest Nerd. Listen here as Peter describes: "Iogneer- Norse god of irony and inappropriateness, who lived in a remote corner of Azgaard thousands of leagues away from the other gods, who failed to appreciate his ironic sense of humor." When asked if his myth was fit to be studied, Peter replied, "I feel that there are multiple levels of symbolism that could be approached from both a post-modernist and a functionalist standpoint." Listen Wed, 16 May 2007 10:29:42 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/religion/news_events/?story_id=303663 Professors Shahzad Bashir and Lori Pearson will be speaking this week in the Library Athenaeum. Professor Bashir's talk, "Pursuing the Secret History of a Hat: Visions and Discourses of a Sixteenth-Century Iranian Sufi," will be from 7-8 on Tuesday. Professor Pearson will speak as part of the "What matters to you and Why?" series, giving a talk entitled "On Being In Community: In Praise of Doubt, Faith, Suspicion, and Action" at noon on Thursday. Mon, 14 May 2007 11:43:23 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/religion/news_events/?story_id=302862 Last Saturday ( May 12 ) was the holiest day in Buddhism: Vesak Day, which simultaneously celebrates the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha. Carleton held services to celebrate, but in case you missed out, I found an online shrine of sorts, created by the Sinhalese Buddhists of the internet in honor of Vesak Day 2007. This sort of thing is actually not uncommon, and the neon light show is intended to depict the transcendent light emitted by the Buddha upon reaching nibbana. link. For more on Carleton's observance, read here. Mon, 14 May 2007 11:04:28 -0500 http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/religion/news_events/?story_id=302827