The American Academy of Religion held their Midwest Annual Meeting in Springfield, MO, Feb 20-22. Three IU Religious Studies graduate students presented: Sweta Dutta: “Merciful Tongues and Bountiful Blessings: Language, Authority and Charisma in Fakirrāmi;” Grace Morris, “This is My Thigh, Given for You: Queerness and Christianity in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s ‘Cannibal Romance;’” and Moriah Reichert, “Only Here to Help:” Colonialism and Religion in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s “The Emissary Part I and II.”
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