Monthly Archives: October 2010

Nominations slate

Posted on 27 October 2010 by Mary

These are the candidates being proposed by the Nominations Committee. If you would like to nominate another person for any of the positions, please ascertain his/her willingness to serve and then contact Maureen O’Brien at obrien at duq dot edu … Continue reading →

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Papers are ready to read

Posted on 26 October 2010 by Eric

Don’t forget that you can read many of the papers for REA 2010 before you arrive in Denver. In fact, if you plan to attend a Research Interest Group (RIG) we ask you to please read those papers before the … Continue reading →

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Calling all task force chairs

Posted on 24 October 2010 by Mary

This is a general “shout out” to anyone who’s been involved with chairing a task force. We’re trying to make sure we have rooms for each task force that’s continuing to meet, but we’re not sure we’ve heard from all … Continue reading →

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2009 Business Meeting Minutes

Posted on 21 October 2010 by Mary

The PDF version of the 2009 Business Meeting minutes is now available. Remember that these are last year’s minutes, and we’ll post the minutes from the business meeting this year once we have them.

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Preparing for Denver

Posted on 20 October 2010 by Mary

As we get ready to journey out to Denver, here’s a wonderful set of short digital stories that people involved with the Center for Digital Storytelling have created. They’re a great way to help us to contextualize where we’ll be.

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Trying to build an online bookstore

Posted on 14 October 2010 by Mary

Given how difficult it is to get publishers to our meeting, we have tried to do onsite bookstores in the past. Even that is challenging, so this year we’re trying something different. We’ve asked publishers to send us one copy … Continue reading →

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Reserve your room for REA!

Posted on 12 October 2010 by Eric

The deadline for reserving your room at the Renaissance Denver at the REA conference rate of $119 per night is October 14th. Just two more days to get the conference rate. Please check our accommodations page for details.

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Surveys of religious knowledge

Posted on 11 October 2010 by Mary

Like just about any multiple choice “standards” test, the Pew Survey of religious knowledge was much less newsworthy to me than many of our news media seemed to think it should be. But here is a collection of scholarly opinions/explorations … Continue reading →

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