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Cities of Relics: Cult of the Saints, Urban Development, and Religious Life in the Middle Ages Professors Christopher MacEvitt (Religion) and Cecilia Gaposchkin (History) have been granted a Dartmouth Conference Award for their upcoming conference, "Cities of Relics." Lift Every Voice and Swing : New book by Vaughn Booker In his forthcoming book, "Lift Every Voice and Swing," Assistant Professor of Religion and African and African American Studies Vaughn Booker '07 explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, and others as representatives of African American religion in the 20th century. A Wedding in a Cemetery: Judaism, Terror, and Pandemic In her essay in "The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere," Susannah Heschel discusses the "wedding in a cemetery" tradition and its lessons for us today. Congratulations, graduating Religion majors minors! Congratulations to the winners of our Religion Department prizes: Tina Li '20, Sofia Carbonell Realme '20, Emma Morgan '20, Julianna Thomson '20, and Celia Pivo '20! A Meditation About Knees "What if the president had dropped to his knees in prayer for healing and reconciliation?" wonders Randall Balmer. "That silent gesture would have been the most eloquent statement he could have made in this time of suffering." By Their Words We Shall Know Them Susan Ackerman proposes a Bible quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, that suits our troubled times: "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream." Vaughn Booker awarded Class of 1962 Faculty Fellowship! Congratulations to Vaughn Booker, Assistant Professor of Religion and African American Studies, who has just been awarded the Class of 1962 Faculty Fellowship! Covid-19 is exposing market fundamentalism s many moral and practical flaws In an Op-Ed in The Washington Post, Religion Professor Devin Singh argues that "in a time of global pandemic and national crisis, market fundamentalism...represents a grave threat to our nation." Celebrating Passover in a time of plague gives it particular resonance In a profile in the Valley News, Religion Professor Susannah Heschel discusses celebrating Passover in a time of plague, as when the Jews escaped Egypt, and now as we face COVID-19. Welcome, Professor Darryl Wilkinson! Among the 30 new faculty members that Dartmouth welcomed to the College community this year is Assistant Professor of Religion Darryl Wilkinson. Welcome, Professor Wilkinson! Journal of the American Academy of Religion 87, no. 4 (December 2019): 1178-1208 Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West, ed. by Alison Beach & Isabelle Cochelin (Cambridge Univ. Pr., 2020) in Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, Columbia Readings of Buddhist Literature (Columbia Univ. Pr., 2019)

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