OU Department of Religious Studies

10/20/2026

Coming spring semester 2027! 📚 Check out RELS 3233 001 Money, Power, and God(s): Religion and Economy East and West on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. It counts as an arts and humanities world culture gen ed credit (IV-WDC).

10/20/2026

Coming for the spring 2027 semester! Check out RELS 2653 001 Approaches to the Study of Religion on Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon with Dr. Goble. It counts as an arts and humanities western culture gen ed credit (IV-WC). 📚

10/16/2026

Coming for the spring 2027 semester: Check out RELS 3733 001 Altered States of Consciousness on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 a.m. with Dr. Goble. It counts as an arts and humanities world culture gen ed credit (IV-WDC). 📚

10/16/2026

Coming for the spring 2027 semester - Check out RELS/HIST 3283 001 Religion, Colonialism, and Nationalism in India with Dr. Moodie on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12 p.m. It counts as an arts and humanities world culture gen ed credit (IV-WDC). 📚

10/14/2026

Religious Studies students and friends,
You are invited to our first Religious Studies Student Lunch of the semester. Please join us! Hideaway Pizza will be provided.
Friday., October 23
11:30 a.m.
Robertson Hall 118

10/08/2026

Join us in congratulating Dr. Moodie on the publication of her article, "Civilising Business: The Imperial Episteme of Early US Business School Education" in the journal, Business History. Applying her training in the study of religion in India to the study of US history, she explores how knowledge produced by and for the British East India Company formed the intellectual foundation of American business schools in the 1880s and 1890s. This knowledge justified the economic dominion of Protestant capitalists over the lands and resources of non-Christian (or, not-the-right-Christian) others in north America, just as it did in the British colonies.

Use the link below for a free eprint of the article:

America’s first university business schools were established in an imperial episteme. The Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, the University of Chicago’s College of Commerce and Administration,...

09/23/2026

John McGreevy, Ph.D., an award-winning historian and author, will deliver a public lecture on the University of Oklahoma Campus titled: Catholicism and Democracy: A Winding History.

09/23/2026

Join us on October 1 for a Special Guest Lecture in Dale Hall Tower: "The Ten Commandments: The Movie, the Monuments, and the Court Cases" with Mark Chancey. Reception at 1 P.M., talk at 1:30. Parking & info: ou.edu/cas/judaicstudies/events

09/18/2026

Religious Studies students and friends,

You are invited to our first Religious Studies Student Lunch of the semester. Please join us! Hideaway Pizza will be provided.

Friday., September 25
11:30 a.m.
Robertson Hall 118

07/10/2026

Please join the OU Religious Studies community in congratulating core faculty member, Dr. Roberta Magnusson, on her new book, *Urban Infrastructure in Medieval England: Sustainability and Resilience.*

The book includes a full chapter ("Pragmatic Piety") on the range of Catholic concepts of charity and the associated funding methods for infrastructures such as bridges and roads (e.g. alms, bequests, indulgence drives, hermits, chantry chapels, fraternities). It also has a detailed examination on the rather mixed impact that the Reformation had on infrastructure support.

It was just published by the prestigious Johns Hopkins University Press and is available here:

How medieval English towns built, sustained, and reimagined the lifelines of urban life.In the bustling market towns and growing cities of medieval England between 1200 and 1600, public works were the lifelines of urban society. In Urban Infrastructure in Medieval England, Roberta J. Magnusson offer...