Roetzel Family Lecture

Since 2011, the Religious Studies Program has been proud to invite exceptional scholars of religion to give the Roetzel Family Lecture in Religious Studies.

From 2005 to 2010, Calvin Roetzel served as the Sundet Chair for New Testament and Christian Studies in the Department of Classical & Near Eastern Studies. During that period, he co-chaired the curriculum committee that created the Religious Studies Program.

Past Lectures

Name of Lecturer, Year, & Affiliation	Title of Lecture
Ozayr Saloojee 2023 Carleton University, Ottawa	"The Short Drop: The Urban Afterlives of Religion, History, and Language"
Brendan Jamal Thornton 2022 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill	"Mapping the Spiritual Baptist Universe: Black Atlantic Cosmography and the Spatial Dimensions of Religious Imagination in Trinidad and Tobago"
Mohammad Hassan Khalil 2021 Michigan State University	“Islam and the Fate of Others: The Salvation Question”
Winnifed Fallers Sullivan 2019 Indiana University	“Teaching Religion in Public: Re-reading Abington v Schempp for the twenty-first century”
Allison Collis Greene 2018 Mississippi State University	“We Didn't Know We Was Poor': Southern Churches, the New Deal, and the Myth of Redemptive Depression”
Barbara Ambros 2016 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	“A Rite of Their Own: Japanese Buddhist Nuns and the Veneration of Ananda”
Bron Taylor 2015 University of Florida	“Spirituality After Darwin: ‘Dark Green’ Nature Religion and the Future of Religion and Nature”
Paula F. Fredriksen 2013 Hebrew University	“Paul, Pagans, and the Redemption of Israel”
Jon Butler 2012 Yale University	“God in Gotham? Spiritual Terror in the Capital of American Secularism”
James Stewart 2011 Macalester College	“The Challenge of Slavery and the Religious Imagination”