Tag: religion

Blake Couey was interviewed about his book, Reading the Poetry of First Isaiah, for the podcast OnScript: Conversations on Current Biblical Scholarship.

Marcia Bunge has co-edited an interdisciplinary collection of essays entitled Nordic Childhoods 1700-1960: From Folk Beliefs to Pippi Longstocking and published by Routledge. The book was part of a major research project on the history of childhood funded by a $1.3 million grant from the Norwegian Research Council and hosted by the University of Oslo.…

Blake Couey published a chapter in The Bible and Disability: A Commentary (Baylor University Press, 2017).

Sarah Ruble published an article “Evangelism, Mission, and Crusade in American Religion,” in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion.

Thia Cooper published an opinion piece entitled “What Does Liberty Look Like Now?” in the University of Edinburgh’s Edit magazine, Summer 2017.

Blake Couey presented a paper titled “Poetry, Language, and Statecraft in Isaiah 18” at the Upper Midwest Society of Biblical Literature meeting in Saint Paul on April 1, 2017. The paper is a shortened version of a book chapter that will appear in a forthcoming volume of close readings of biblical poems published by Cambridge…

Thia Cooper gave the keynote address in Leuven, Belgium, at the Omnes Gentes Conference on Religion, Development and Liberation, at the Catholic University of Leuven. Her talk was titled: Rethinking Development and Liberation for the 21st Century.