On November 19, Assistant Teaching Professor Dr. Diana Murtaugh Coleman presented the first of a three part series of workshops for community members at the Coconino Center for the Arts, “Cultivating an Archive: Spoons, Cups, and Seeds.” This workshop prepared participants to identify key family objects and photos for their digital archive. Dr. Coleman provided examples of how people speak through-and with-objects and photos, as grounding for the oral history and… Read more
Comparative Study of Religions
Regents’ Professor and director of the Martin-Springer Institute Dr. Björn Krondorfer will moderate the panel Home & Identity: The Refugee Experience on refugees at the Coconino Center for the Arts on Thursday Dec. 1 at 7 p.m.
Regents’ Professor and Director of the Martin-Springer Institute Dr. Björn Krondorfer will moderate the panel Home & Identity: The Refugee Experience on refugees at the Coconino Center for the Arts on Thursday Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. To be a refugee is not an identity but the result of losing one’s home. In this vibrant panel discussion moderated by Dr. Krondorfer, panelists will share insights regarding the experiences of people who have… Read more
CCS Professor Dr. Björn Krondorfer featured in the NAU Review for International Religious Freedom Day
The NAU Review recently featured Regents’ Professor Dr. Björn Krondorfer for International Religious Freedom Day, Oct. 27, 2022. You can read Dr. Krondorfer’s essay here.

Faculty News: Congratulations to Dr. Jason BeDuhn, Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions, on his recent presentation at the 10th Quadrennial Manichaean Studies Conference in Aarhus, Denmark
Congratulations to Dr. Jason BeDuhn, Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions, on his recent presentation at the 10th Quadrennial Manichaean Studies Conference in Aarhus, Denmark. He presented the paper “Is there a Manichaean ‘Christology’? The Dangers of Looking at Manichaeism through the Lens of Church History.”
Abstract: Manichaean Studies originated as an adjunct of the study of Church History and Christian Theology, and at first relied entirely on polemical sources from the… Read more
Faculty News: Congratulations to Dr. Jason BeDuhn, Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions , on his recent publication!
Congratulations to Dr. Jason BeDuhn, Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions, on his recent publication “Ambivalent Beauty: Divine Transgendering in the ‘Seduction of the Archons’ and Elsewhere in Manichaean Myth” in Women in Western and Eastern Manichaeism (Leiden: Brill, 2022).
Congratulations to CCS major (emphasis in the Comparative Study of Religions) Dominic Counihan, our spring 2022 Outstanding Senior!
Congratulations to CCS major (emphasis in the Comparative Study of Religions) Dominic Counihan, our spring 2022 Outstanding Senior! Dominic previously received the Lakeview United Methodist Scholarship in 2020. He is from Tehachapi in California and also pursued a major in Military Science. Dominic chose to major in CCS out of his desire for promoting interpersonal relationships and says that he “wants… Read more