In June of 2015, a fire soon ruled as arson burned part of the College Hill Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Knoxville, one of several Black churches in the South that experienced arson that summer. Dr. Todne Thomas, a socio-cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of African American Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School, is studying what has happened in the church community and the city since the College Hill arson and she spoke about that work with WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper.

The University of Tennessee Department of Religious Studies annual Siddiqi Lecture this year is on Islam, Race, and Social Justice. Dr. Butch Ware is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California - Santa Barbara and an historian of both Africa and Islam. He spoke with WUOT's Chrissy Keuper about his research, about how African Islam differs from Islam in other areas of the world, and about his personal relationship with Islam.

The Urban Word NYC organization started the National Youth Poet Laureate program in 2016. Earlier this year, the City of Knoxville announced its first Youth Poet Laureate in that program: Melody Dalili is a rising senior at Farragut High School and has been writing poetry since the third grade. Dalili and the City’s current Poet Laureate, Rhea Carmon spoke with WUOT's Chrissy Keuper.

Tracy Pintchman is giving the University of Tennessee’s 2022 Anjali Lecture in Hindu Studies. She is a professor of religious studies and director of the International Studies Program at Loyola University of Chicago and she spoke with WUOT's Chrissy Keuper.

Finding ways to process grief while navigating the COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult. WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper spoke with Laura Wheat, Assistant Professor of Counselor Education at the University of Tennessee and Director of the Grief Outreach Initiative.

What does religion have to do with International development? Katherine Marshall has studied this question for decades. She worked at the World Bank from…

The newest faculty member of the University of Tennessee’s Religious Studies department is teaching remotely from Baltimore. WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper caught…

As the world struggles with the pandemic coronavirus and COVID-19 disease, Tennesseans are sharing their anxieties and their methods for finding calm…

For International Holocaust Remembrance Day, WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper sat down with two scholars from the University of Tennessee to talk about their…

The Siddiqi Lecture in Islamic Studies was launched in 2014 to bring top scholars in the field of Islamic Studies to the University of Tennessee and to…