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AddRan College of Liberal Arts

Major in meaning.

Engage with questions about life's ultimate meaning.

No matter what you want to do, understanding religion is essential to understanding the world around you. When you study religion, you're studying meaning – how we interpret, govern and determine our purpose in the world around us.

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Antoinette DeNapoli, Ph.D., Selected for East-West Center Residential Institute Program

John F. Weatherly Professor of Religion Dr. Antoinette DeNapoli has been selected to participate in the Women in Buddhism: Religion, Politics, and the Arts 4-week residential institute program beginning June 5, 2023 at the East-West Center campus in Honolulu, HI. Made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, this multidisciplinary program will explore the evolving relational agencies of women from the origins of Buddhism into the modern era through deep and context-rich engagement with key traditions, practices and primary texts. The program is designed to meet the needs of undergraduate educators addressing issues of diversity at the intersections among religion, gender, power, globalization and cultural pluralism. (continue reading)

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Recent Publications

““I am the one who will change the direction of the world”: A Female Guru’s Response to Gender-Motivated Sexual Abuse and Inequality in Hinduism ”

Antoinette DeNapoli

“Religion and the Digital Arts”

J. Sage Elwell

“Eve, Mattidia, and the Gender Discourse of the Greek Pseudo-Clementine Novel”

Patricia Duncan

“A Tale of Two Purims: Food-Identity Ideology and Purim Reception from the Late Persian to the Byzantine Christian Era ”

Johnny Miles

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