Chris Benda

Registration is open for our spring Divinity Writing Workshops. Politics & Practice of Citation February 18, 2022 11am-12pm Central – sign up! This workshop discusses the hows and whys of citation, helping you decide what guests to invite to your dinner party of an… Read More

Can I enter the library? Do you still have a pick-up service? Is faculty delivery available again? How about any new services? For answers to these questions and more, check out our Library Services: Where Things Stand page. If have any other questions,… Read More

Wanting to return your books? Wondering about the items in your Divinity Library locker? Need a book or other physical resource and not sure what to do? Check out our COVID-19 FAQ — and if your question isn’t there, let us know!… Read More

Alumni of the Vanderbilt Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion have access to several ATLA products (including ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials Plus).  At present, this access requires the use of a username and password that we provide to you.  This will be changing on December 20, 2019: … Read More

The violent fall of the Socialist Republic of Romania captured the world’s attention in December, 1989. As anti-Communist demonstrators ransacked party headquarters, propaganda and paraphernalia of the Ceaușescu regime were literally tossed out into trash heaps in protest. In the spirit of “contemporary archeology”, historian Paul Michelson—with family and friends—scavenged… Read More

Listen to an interview with Divinity School Professor Joerg Rieger about his book Jesus vs. Caesar: For People Tired of Serving the Wrong God. This conversation is the latest in the Authorial Intentions series — interviews that Chris Benda, Librarian for Religious Studies and Theology, has been conducting… Read More

You’ve just spent the last several hours arranging your disparate ideas into a coherent research paper — and now you have to spend several more hours typing up your citations and bibliography. Does this sound depressingly familiar? Bibliographic management software can make things easier, and staff at the Vanderbilt libraries… Read More

The Religious Magazine Archive is a collection of 22 periodicals that represent a variety of religious traditions.  The coverage of the entire collection ranges from 1845 to 2015. Contents include The American Theosophist, The Catholic World, Islamic Horizons, and The Sikh Messenger, among other titles.  More popular than… Read More

A new episode of Chris Benda’s Authorial Intentions podcast is available, featuring an interview with Professor Jaco Hamman about his book, The Millennial Narrative: Sharing a Good Life with the Next Generation. More interviews are available on the Authorial Intentions site on SoundCloud. Read More

Want some background on a religious topic from people you can trust?  Browse to Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Religion, where you’ll find articles about subjects like African Religions, Hinduism, Religion and Art, and Religion in America, among other categories. All of the articles are written by scholars who work… Read More