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SUMMARY:2020 Winter Calendar
DESCRIPTION:Click here for 2020 Winter Calendar of Events
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SUMMARY:Canceled! Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law Canceled!
DESCRIPTION:Canceled! \nThough typically translated as “Jewish law\,” the term halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually thought of as law. This is because the rabbinic legal system has rarely wielded the political power to enforce its many detailed rules\, nor has it ever been the law of any state. Even more idiosyncratically\, the talmudic rabbis claim that the study of halakhah is a holy endeavor that brings a person closer to God—a claim no country makes of its law. \nIn this talk Professor Chaim Saiman will introduce the thesis of his book which traces how generations of rabbis have used concepts forged in talmudic disputation to do the work that other societies assign not only to philosophy\, political theory\, theology\, and ethics but also to art\, drama\, and literature. He will show how in the world of halakhah where everything is law\, law is also everything\, such that even laws that serve no practical purpose form part of a learned and regulatory canon. \n  \nChaim Saiman is a scholar of Jewish law\, insurance law and private law\, and has just published Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law with Princeton University Press. Professor Saiman has served as the Gruss Visiting Professor of Talmudic Law at both Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School\, a visiting fellow at Princeton University and a visiting professor at the University of Toronto\, Bar-Ilan\, Hebrew University and IDC faculties of law. Saiman has also served as an arbitrator on rabbinical courts and as an expert witness in insurance law and Jewish law in federal court. Professor Saiman received his B.S. from Georgia State University\, and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. He also studied for a number of years at Yeshivat Har-Etzion (Gush) and Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh in Israel. Prior to joining the faculty at Villanova\, he was an Olin Fellow at Harvard Law School a Golieb Fellow at NYU Law School\, a law clerk to Judge Michael McConnell on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals\, and worked as a corporate associate with the firm Cleary Gottlieb in New York. At Villanova\, Professor Saiman teaches Contracts\, Insurance Law\, Insurance Coverage Disputes\, Jewish Law\, and Legislation. \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”90″ title=”false” description=”false”]
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SUMMARY:Thinking About Religion: Langston Hughes and a Literary Approach to the Study of African American Religious History
DESCRIPTION:African American religious history has largely been written from the perspective of believers and belief. But what about the religious perspectives of skeptics\, the doubtful\, and unbelievers? What value can be gained from explorations of their views? Wallace Best answers these questions with a historical-literary analysis of the work of Harlem Renaissance writer\, Langston Hughes. Hughes’s work has served\, often unrecognized\, as an alternative source of spiritual authority and a viable historical account of black religion. He wrote as much about religion as he did any other topic. Hughes was an astute thinker about religion\, and his artistic production cannot be fully known apart from an examination of his thoughts on God\, the church\, and matters of ultimate meaning.\n\n\n\n\n\nWallace Best is Professor of Religion and African American Studies and Faculty Affiliate of History at Princeton University. He earned a PhD in United States History from Northwestern University and an MA in Church History and Theological Studies from Wheaton College (Illinois). The focus of his research and teaching merge at the crucial intersections of American religion\, African American religious history\, urban religion\, cultural studies\, and gender and sexuality studies. With attention given to the lived experiences of religion in urban contexts\, he employs various historical and literary methodologies to elucidate the ways religious discourses\, practices\, movements\, and institutions shape American society in general and African American life in particular. He is the author of Passionately Human\, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture  in Black Chicago\, 1915-1952 and Langston’s Salvation: American Religion and the Bard of Harlem. He has also published in Religion and American Culture\, Religion and Politics\, Fides Et Historia\, U.S. Catholic Historian\, Callaloo\, The Huffington Post\, Reuters\, and The Washington Post. He has held fellowships at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University and the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University. At Princeton he serves on the Executive Councils of the Center for the Study of Religion and Gender and Sexuality Studies.\n\n\nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”97″ title=”false” description=”false”]
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