2009-2010 Religion Honors & Awards

Nancy & Henry Schacht Endowed Fund for the Woodyard Summer Scholars

Downs, John
“Emerging/Emergent Church Community/Identity Formation
Advisor: Harold Van Broekhoven

Gaglione, Carolyn
“African Religion, the Gospel of Wealth, and Liberation Theology”
Advisor: David O. Woodyard

Robb, Henry
“The Social Impact on Religion”
Advisor: Harold Van Broekhoven

Schlosser, Lillian
“A Feminist Hermeneutics”
Advisor: David O. Woodyard

Swensson, Ellen
“The Greatest of These is Love: Working towards a Practical Theology of Ministry to the Dying”
Advisor: Harold Van Broekhoven

Lee & Ruth Scott Prize in Christian Theology & Ethics

Elizabeth Hypes
Anna Meeker

Religion Department Fellows

Elizabeth Hypes
Michelle Kailey
Alison Kelly
Anna Meeker
Andrew Pincus
Matthew Timmerman

To learn more, visit: Honors & Awards

Posted date: April 23, 2010

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Nancy & Henry Schacht Endowed Fund for the Woodyard Summer Scholars

Lee & Ruth Scott Prize in Christian Theology & Ethics

Religion Department Fellows

Spotlights

Feminist Ethics Cross the Ocean

Skills learned by a religion major translate into success

John Cort: India Summer

A Study Abroad Brings to Understanding to Complex Issues

Editorship Provides Career Skills

Contemporary Politics of Muslim America

Living What She Learned: Tayma Bislim '13

Linking to American Heritage

Rethinking Christianity

Urban Embrace

Rethinking the role of the church

Irish insight into religion

What's Happening

Tait Ferguson ’23: President’s Medalist

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