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UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH
The Department of Religion and Philosophy has a strong tradition of
research.
The Religion Department has received two
affiliate grants with the Harvard Pluralism
Project. Under the first grant, students are researching "gender, food, and meaning" in western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina.
In the summer of 2003, the department received a second grant to study the development of the first women's Zen community in the United States (in nearby western North Carolina).
Several students have been
recipients of South Carolina Independent Colleges and
Universities (SCICU) grants. Recent research topics have included:
- the Holocaust;
- Russian Orthodox icons;
- snake handling;
- the relationship between secularization and the
cinema;
- rate of death in childbirth for women in the time of
Jesus;
- the architecture of cities from the New Testament;
- the
life of saint Francesca Romana through an intensive
study of artwork depicting her life.
Researchers have the opportunity to present their
findings at the annual conference of the South Carolina
Academy of Religion and at the symposium conducted by the
SCICU.
Recently, papers have also been presented at the Southeastern American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting.
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