The Sept. 24-25 conference was held at Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center in honor of Michel Foucault, and drew in researchers from across the country. 

The winning article successfully brings the richness of late antique scholarship on religious communities into early medieval middle eastern conversations.

Since 2014, substantial ink has been spilled on chronicling, explaining, and contesting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s predominance in national politics in India. Scholars have studied the ever-in...

The U Penn academic built a devoted following by rejecting traditional classroom norms—and insisting on no phones or sex.

Presented in collaboration with Penn's Middle East CenterAfter Rumi: The Mevlevis and Their World by Jamal J. Elias is the first major book since the mid-20th century to focus on Rumi’s religious, soc...

Kirby Sokolow, a seventh-year PhD candidate in the Religious Studies Department, wants to challenge stereotypes around incarceration and religion.