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MTSU brings community together with second annual Nowruz celebration

Emma Burden, Lead features reporter • March 23, 2025

Murfreesboro community members and MTSU students and faculty celebrate the West Asian holiday Nowruz, traditionally known as Persian New Year.

MTSU Philosophy Department hosts annual Lyceum lecture series with Mariana Alessandri

DeAsia Powell, Contributing writer • September 29, 2024

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies hosted Mariana Alessandri Friday at its annual lecture series lyceum, “The Upside of Anxiety: Kierkegaard on Feeling Better About Feeling Bad.”

Vanderbilt University professor lectures on hardships of West African slaves at MTSU

Sidelines • April 11, 2018

Photo and story by Benjamin Shaw / Contributing Writer Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh, an assistant professor of religious studies, American religious history and African-American religious history at Vanderbilt...

MTSU to be first public university in Middle Tennessee to offer religious studies major

Sidelines • April 25, 2017

Story and Photo by Eric Goodwin / Contributing Writer Beginning Fall 2017, MTSU will offer a Bachelor’s degree in religious studies through the College of Liberal Arts. It will be the only program...

MTSU student recounts adventure, sacred ritual in Nepal | Photo gallery

Sidelines • November 18, 2015

Elizabeth Enck // Contributing writer Photos by Elizabeth Enck Smoke from incense and burning trash floats through beams of morning sunlight as shopkeepers say prayers to the gods, splash water on doorsteps...