Philosophy & Religion blog
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Philosophy and Religion Professor Earns Academic Innovation Award
June 1, 2018Chad Mohler, professor of philosophy and religion, was one of the Spring 2018 winners of the Truman Academic Innovation Award. He uses argument maps as a tool to aid critical thinking. To better appreciate the relations among the parts of philosophical arguments, students in his Introduction to Philosophy course construct graphical visualizations of the arguments […]
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Religious studies honorary inducts members
May 29, 2018Three Philosophy and Religion graduating seniors— Devin Gant, Alex Moellering and Sydney Moxley— were inducted into Theta Alpha Kappa (TAK) on May 9, 2018. TAK is the national honor society for students engaged in religious studies. See the Truman Today article for additional info. Pictured, from left to right: Ding-hwa Hsieh, Dereck Daschke, Devin […]
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Truman’s 2018 Educator of the Year: a PHRE professor!
April 20, 2018Dr. Chad Mohler was selected as Truman’s 2018 Educator of the Year. See the related Truman Today article.
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Dr. Mohler wins Academic Innovation Award
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Janet Gooch presents Philosophy and Religion professor Chad Mohler with one of Truman’s 2018 Academic Innovation Awards. In April 2018 Philosophy and Religion’s Dr. Chad Mohler won the Academic Professional Development Center’s Academic Innovation Award for his teaching project, “Argument Maps as a Tool to Aid Critical […]
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2018 PHRE Senior Capstone Presentations
March 27, 20182018 Philosophy and Religion Senior Capstone Presentations * * * All sessions in BH 101 * * * Open to the public. All are welcome! Monday, April 9 5:00 p.m. ALEXANDER C. MOELLERING, “Advocating the Apophatic Approach: Bridging the Gap Between Early Buddhist Philosophy and Modern Christian Theism” 5:30 p.m. KAITLYN A. WILLING, […]
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PHRE alumna to offer talk to current PHRE seniors
March 7, 2018On March 27, Lisa Gilbert, a PHRE alumna, will speak to the PHRE senior seminar students about life after Truman.
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A new PHRE faculty publication
Congratulations to Dr. Mike Ashcraft on the recent publication of his book, A Historical Introduction to the Study of New Religious Movements, in the Routledge New Religions series.
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Dissertation published of PHRE alumna
October 15, 2017The dissertation of PHRE alumna Leah Rediger Schulte has just been published by Fortress Press. It’s called The Absence of God in Biblical Rape Narratives. You can find it here!
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“Truman Today” article features PHRE major in story about Interfaith Connections
September 21, 2017Don’t miss this news story about the role Philosophy & Religion major Devin Gant is playing in fostering connections among different faith traditions at Truman.
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Two Philosophy and Religion Majors Inducted into National Honor Society
July 28, 2017PHRE majors Samantha Barnhart and Tia Sarkar were elected as the 2017 inductees to Truman’s selective Alpha Iota Lambda chapter of Theta Alpha Kappa (TAK), the national honor society for religious studies.