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Stories of Altruism
Would you risk your life to save someone you barely knew? In a Wednesday CLP titled “Altruistic Behavior during the Holocaust,” Dr. Eva Fogelman, Ph.D invited students, faculty, and community members to reflect on the...
Continue ReadingPope is both popular and polarizing, speaker says
Pope Francis has proven to be both a celebrated and controversial figure. The Pontiff was named Time Magazine’s 2013 Person and Year, and his image is even featured on the current issue Rolling Stone. But...
Continue ReadingMormon Tabernacle Choir director to lead concert Jan. 24
Furman University will present a concert to close its annual Church Music Conference Friday, Jan. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Greenville. “A Festival of Sacred Choral Music” is free and open to...
Continue ReadingProfessor Bibb writes about the end of the world
There is an important difference in how religious people often view the nature of the world and the "end times." A part of contemporary American Christianity is shaped by the idea that the world is...
Continue ReadingBridging the gap between faith and reason
Bridging the gap between religion and science proves to be a challenge in a time when technological and scientific advancements leave little room for faith and spirituality, but according to author and renowned Kabbalah scholar...
Continue ReadingBritt authors book about Aladura Church
Furman University Asian studies and religion professor Samuel Irving Britt has authored a book about the Liberian Aladura Church. The Children of Salvation: Ritual Struggle in a Liberian Aladura Church offers an understanding of Liberian spirituality,...
Continue ReadingEnvironmentalism in Islam
NOVEMBER 12, 2012 by Maggie Johnson '14 What does Islam have to do with environmentalism? In a talk given Thursday in Patrick Lecture Hall, Eleanor Finnegan gave a presentation connecting these seemingly separate concepts.
Continue ReadingIslam and democracy
NOVEMBER 5, 2012 by Maggie Johnson '14, Contributing Writer Is Islam compatible with democracy? In a presentation given Thursday in Daniel Chapel, Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im asked the audience to take a cross-cultural look at...
Continue ReadingFurman grad Steven Weeks is “Unsung Hero”
Steven Weeks’ success at helping students stay in school until graduation has earned him recognition by Communities in Schools, a national drop-out prevention organization, as one of its five “Unsung Heroes.” Weeks, who graduated in...
Continue ReadingGlobal villages and the power of YouTube
In an op-ed for The Greenville News, Furman religion professor Alfons Teipen writes that the film on YouTube that led to demonstrations in various parts of the Middle East should remind all of us of the...
Continue ReadingBibb presents Bonner American Scholar lecture
AUGUST 24, 2012 by Vince Moore, Director of News and Media Relations Dr. Bryan Bibb, associate professor of religion at Furman, will present the Bonner American Scholar Lecture Thursday, Aug. 30 to mark the beginning...
Continue ReadingNix’s book reviewed
SPRING, 2012 Echol Nix's book Ernst Troeltsch and Comparative Theology was reviewed in Nouvelle Revue Théologique Tome 134/1.
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