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SUMMARY:Secular Rituals: How Nonreligious People Make Religion Less Religious
DESCRIPTION:As more Americans become nonreligious\, life-cycle rituals and other ceremonies that religious experts once performed are increasingly the responsibility of everyday people and ritual experts for hire. Very secular people avoid rituals or work hard to minimize their resemblance to religion. Secular people who have left strict religious groups often rebel by inverting the rituals they once felt obligated to perform\, which also allows them to hang onto parts of themselves they continue to value. Most nonreligious people simply want weddings or memorial services that avoid God-talk and feel familiar\, but not too religious. All of these ways of engaging in ritual tell a story about secularism’s awkward relationship with religion and the strangeness of being secular. Drawing on several years of ethnographic research and discussing rituals as varied as a bat mitzvah\, a Día de los Muertos celebration\, and an inversion of Eid called Haramadan\, this lecture describes how nonreligious people make religious rituals and practices feel more secular—and how in so doing they are changing what it means to be religious in America today. \n  \n Joseph Blankholm is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His interdisciplinary research focuses on atheism and secularism\, primarily in the United States. Most recently\, he has published on Karl Marx’s forgotten secularism (forthcoming in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion) and the contradictory ways in which American law understands secular people (Public Culture 2018). He is currently at work on a manuscript about organized nonbelievers and their ambivalent relationship with religion. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”84″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/secular-rituals-how-nonreligious-people-make-religion-less-religious/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T180000
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SUMMARY:Fall 2019 Welcome Reception
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to attend the Center for the Study of Religion Fall 2019 Welcome Reception. We look forward to seeing you there!\n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”83″ title=”false” description=”true”]\n  \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/fall-2019-welcome-reception/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T180000
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SUMMARY:Symposium: “On the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational Perspectives”
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the UCLA Department of African American Studies \nCo-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion \nA Symposium featuring Keynote Speaker Gloria Wekker\, Professor Emerita at Utrecht University\, The Netherlands\, and a renowned scholar of Black feminism\, Dutch anticolonialism\, and diaspora. \nKey Symposium questions will include: How do marginalized experiences of Blackness within Europe\, especially the interventions of Black Muslims\, LGBTQI*\, and/or those rendered non-citizen (e.g.\, refugees or asylum seekers)\, challenge one-dimensional conceptualizations of Blackness? How have contemporary contributions to the transnational continuations of the Black Radical and Black feminist traditions been brought to bear in various European contexts? How do various Black struggles unfold in the face of genocidal border regimes\, urban policing and surveillance\, neoliberal austerity policies and the current rise of right-wing extremism\, gender violence\, and Islamophobia?
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/symposium-on-the-matter-of-blackness-in-europe-transnational-perspectives/
LOCATION:Charles E. Young Research Library and Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190923T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191231T170000
DTSTAMP:20190923T155550Z
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SUMMARY:2019-20 Calendar of Events
DESCRIPTION:Click here for 2019-20 Calendar of Events\n  \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/2019-20-calendar-of-events/
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190606T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190606T180000
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SUMMARY:Trialogue: Beyond the Boundary  Conceptual Models of the (Religious) Stranger in  Judaism\, Christianity\, and Islam
DESCRIPTION:This panel discussion is open to members of the UCLA and Los Angeles communities who are interested in exploring a key issue of concern in contemporary religious and cultural studies. The forum also is the culmination of the upper-division seminar course Religion 120. The course is designed to introduce students from a broad spectrum of academic disciplines\, as well as cultural and religious backgrounds\, to an analysis of the complex interrelatedness of Judaism\, Christianity\, and Islam. \nFree and Open to the Public \nCo-sponsored by the Academy for Judaic\, Christian and Islamic Studies at UCLA | www.afjcis.org \nModerator \nReinhard Krauss\, Ph.D.\nLecturer\, UCLA Center for the Study of\nReligion \nPanelists \nRabbi Elliot Dorff\, Ph.D.\nRector and Professor of Philosophy\nAmerican Jewish University \nJanna Gosselin\, Ph.D.\nProfessor of Christian Spirituality\, New\nTheological Seminary of the West \nMuzammil Siddiqi\, Ph.D.\nChair\, Fiqh Council of North America\nand Religious Director\, Islamic Society\nof Orange County \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \n\nRSVP Below: \n\n[gravityform id=”80″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/trialogue-beyond-the-boundary-conceptual-models-of-the-religious-stranger-in-judaism-christianity-and-islam/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T180000
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SUMMARY:Between Bible and Qur'an
DESCRIPTION:The Qur’an draws on three major earlier traditions\, those of Judaism\, Christianity tradition\, and pre-Islamic paganism\, and while the Qur’an presents itself as a continuation and confirmation of the Torah and the Gospel\, its style deviates significantly from that found in Biblical texts. Western scholarship has focused on Biblical influence in terms of the characters of Biblical narrative\, and specific terms and concepts\, and the versions of individual stories. This study focuses instead on genres\, which have not been entirely ignored but have certainly been understudied. A notable exception is Wansbrough’s Qur’anic Studies\, which assumes an essential continuity of the types of prophetic speech in the monotheistic tradition. This study takes a close look at several genres\, including prayers\, parables\, and punishment stories\, in an attempt to show the close relationship between Biblical and Qur’anic texts while also pointing out distinct features of Qur’anic as opposed to Biblical style. \nThe term Isra’iliyyat is quoted in Islamic literature to mention narratives and traditions originally e supposedly coming from Jewish and Christian literature\, including the Bible. The term has circulated since the 10th century and has been used in different ways gaining a specific polemical sense only with the work of Ibn Taymiyya and his pupil. The many occurrences through the ages display a variety in the meaning given to it and the extent of what Islamic authors conceived about the relation of Islamic tradition in relation to Jewish and other literatures including the Bible. Such a variety of attitudes also emerge in Western scholarly literature where the term is given meanings mostly related to the research approaches rather than its medieval circulation and attestations. \nDevin J. Stewart earned a B.A. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 1984 and a Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He now teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. His areas of scholarly interest include the Qur’an\, Shiite Islam\, Islamic legal scholarship\, biography\, autobiography\, speech genres\, and other topics in Arabic and Islamic studies. He is the author of Islamic Legal Orthodoxy (Utah University Press\, 1998) and Disagreements of the Jurists (NYU Press\, 2015) and a co-author of Interpreting the Self (University of California Press\, 2002). He has written a number of studies on Qur’anic rhyme and rhythm and on form criticism of the Qur’an. \nRoberto Tottoli is Professor of Islamic studies at the University of Naples L’Orientale. He has published studies on the Biblical tradition in the Qur’an and Islam (Biblical prophets in the Qur’an and Muslim literature\, Richmond\, 2002; The stories of the prophets of Ibn  Mutarrif al-Tarafi\, Berlin\, 2003) and the medieval Islamic literature. His most recent publications include Ludovico Marracci at work: The Evolution of his Latin translation of the Qur’ān in the light of his newly discovered manuscripts (co-authored with Reinhold F. Glei)\, Wiesbaden\, Harrassowitz\, 2016; andBooks and Written Culture of Islamic World. Studies Presented to Claude Gilliot on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday(edited with Andrew Rippin)\, Leiden – Boston\, 2015. \nRSVP Below: \n\n[gravityform id=”81″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/between-bible-and-quran/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T130000
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SUMMARY:On the Soul
DESCRIPTION:This discussion of the soul departs from the concept of the soul that for thousands of years has occupied the attention of philosophers and theologians and pervaded religious discourse. Morris is concerned with what William James referred to as ‘the popular soul\,’ the soul as it is invoked by expressions such as ‘an expansive soul\,’ ‘a soulless person\,’ ‘soul-mate\,’ and ‘that melody touched my soul.’ Skepticism with regard to the existence of this soul is without warrant. How this soul comes into being and develops; what its essential features are; how the world\, when the soul is engaged\, is transformed; what its relationship is to one’s conscience; its importance in a human life; its connections to purity and perfection\, to silence; its survival upon death; and the perils posed today to its development and existence are the principal topics considered. \n  \nHerbert Morris is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Emeritus Professor of Law and former Dean of Humanities (1983 – 1993) at the University of California\, Los Angeles. His latest publication is Disclosures: Essays on Art\, Literature and Philosophy (2017). \n  \n  \n\nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below: \n\n[gravityform id=”76″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/on-the-soul/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T173000
DTSTAMP:20190325T214554Z
CREATED:20190305T184058Z
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SUMMARY:The Seventeenth Century Judeo-Persian Adaptation of the Buddha Biographies
DESCRIPTION:Elisha ben Shemuel’s Shahzadeh va-Sufi or The Prince and The Sufi is a seventeenth century Judeo-Persian adaptation of the life of Buddha\, known in the west as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat. The plot\, that of the prince who abandons a life of privilege and opulence for spiritual enlightenment\, has traveled through centuries in various languages including Sanskrit\, Middle Persian\, multiple Arabic versions\, Georgian\, Greek\, Latin\, several European languages and Hebrew. As with previous adaptations\, the author of The Prince and The Sufi uses the language\, literary style and conventions suited to the tastes of his readership. Dr. Yasharpour is preparing to publish the edited Judeo-Persian text of The Prince and the Sufi together with an English annotated translation. In her talk\, she will discuss how Ben Shemuel appealed to his acculturated Persian Jewish audience by modeling his Judeo-Persian adaptation after popular classical Persian advice literature and conveying practical wisdom by way of a Sufi master. \n  \nDr. Dalia Yasharpour (Ph.D. Near Eastern Languages & Cultures\, UCLA\, 2005) is a scholar of Judeo-Persian language and literature. A lecturer and researcher\, Dalia most recently headed the Iranian Studies program at Harvard University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. In addition to authoring academic articles and editing Persian language textbooks\, she is the co-author of The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China (Brill\, 2011). A Los Angeles native\, she lives in West Los Angeles with her family. \n  \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \n  \n  \n\nPlease RSVP Below: \n\n[gravityform id=”79″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n\n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/https-religion-ucla-edu-event-the-seventeenth-century-judeo-persian-adaptation-of-the-buddha-biographies/
LOCATION:Royce 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190404T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190404T120000
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SUMMARY:CHESUCRISTO: The Fusion in Image and Word of Che Guevara and Jesus Christ
DESCRIPTION:After his death\, Che Guevara became an icon and was even compared to Jesus Christ. Many images\, poems\, plays\, and films bear witness to this remarkable process\, which made studious use of Christian iconography. In this way\, Che Guevara became a Christ figure for our times. In order to explain their real affinity\, the author examines Jesus as a historical figure and illuminates the convergence with Che. Kunzle weaves together the gospel texts and events with Che-Christic texts\, accompanied by a continuous display of Che-Christic art \nDavid Kunzle\, educated at Cambridge and London Universities\, has taught art history since 1977 at UCLA. He has published widely (thirteen books in several languages) on public\, popular\, public\, comic and revolutionary (Latin American) art. His most recent works are on The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua\, The Comic Strips of Gustave Doré\, Chesucristo\, The Fusion in Word and Image of Che Guevara and Jesus Christ\, and now CHAM: the best Comic Strips and Graphic Novels 1839-1863. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n\nRSVP Below: \n\n[gravityform id=”75″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n\n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/chesucristo-the-fusion-in-image-and-word-of-che-guevara-and-jesus-christ/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T113000
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SUMMARY:The Dreamer and the Dream:  Afrofuturism and Prophetic Visions of Blackness
DESCRIPTION:A talk by Dr. Roger Sneed: Afrofuturism as a way of Black people expressing\ntheir identity through speculative fictions is fairly new\, and yet it is not new. We\ncan trace the Black use of speculative fiction to articulate visions of Blackness\nand critique white supremacy back to W.E.B. DuBois’s 1920 short story “The\nComet.” However\, Afrofuturism has made a resurgence\, due in part to the\nphenomenal success of Black Panther\, ongoing interest in the work of Octavia\nButler\, and the rise of the “blerd” (a portmanteau of “black” and “nerd”).\nToday’s talk uses an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as a focal point for\ninvestigating the intersections of Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought. \n  \nRoger Sneed is the Dorothy and B.H. Peace\, Jr. Associate Professor and chair of the Religion Department at Furman University. His first book\, Representations of Homosexuality: Black Liberation Theology and Cultural Criticism was a critique of the representations of homosexuality within Black liberation and womanist theologies as well as in some forms of Black cultural criticism. He is now writing a second manuscript titled “The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought” that will be published by the Ohio State University Press. This talk is sponsored by the UCLA Sociology Department and co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies and the Center for the Study of Religion. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n\n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/the-dreamer-and-the-dream-afrofuturism-and-prophetic-visions-of-blackness/
LOCATION:Haines 279
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190305T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190305T120000
DTSTAMP:20190108T185714Z
CREATED:20190108T185714Z
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SUMMARY:HOW MOSES BECAME A LEVITE
DESCRIPTION:The Bible presents Moses as Israel’s prophet par excellence and among the most prominent members of the Israelite tribe of Levi. But how does this picture of Moses square with actual history? How did the memory of an early Transjordanian holy man become part of a priestly tradition in ancient Israel? Answering these (and other) questions requires rethinking not only the biblical sources but how warfare\, economics\, and politics led to different corners of Israelite society “claiming” Moses for themselves…including the Levites. \n  \nMark Leuchter is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism at Temple University in Philadelphia. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2003 and has held positions as Coordinator of Biblical Studies at the University of Sydney and as Visiting Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Pennsylvania. His current research focuses on the relationship between memory\, myth\, and text production in exilic and Persian period Jewish and in early rabbinic literature. His favorite band is Rush. \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP:\nE-mail cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu \n\n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/how-moses-became-a-levite/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T173000
DTSTAMP:20190107T215732Z
CREATED:20181206T215419Z
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SUMMARY:Atheism in Buddhism and Nietzsche as Challenges to the Philosophy of Religion
DESCRIPTION:This lecture seeks to clarify the status of Buddhism as a non-atheistic religion\, that is\, a set of religious concerns that aren’t supported by the various structures of theism: the creator\nGod\, divine beings\, and corresponding practices such as worship\, obedience\, and supplication. Comparing Buddhist non-theism to atheism in the West we summarize Friedrich Nietzsche’s “death of God” proclamation\, his critique of both Christianity and Buddhism\, and the patterns of cultural nihilism associated with them. These reflections are directed toward a challenge to the contemporary philosophy of religion in its incapacity to understand religion on broader\, more historical grounds than theism can provide. \n  \nDale S. Wright is the Gamble Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and Asian Studies Emeritus at Occidental College in Los Angeles.  He is author of books in the field of Buddhist Studies including Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism (Cambridge University Press\, 1998)\, The Six Perfections: Buddhism and the Cultivation of Character (Oxford University Press\, 2009)\, What Is Buddhist Enlightenment? (Oxford University Press\, 2016) \, co-editor of a series of Oxford University Press books on Zen Buddhism as well as author of numerous essays\, articles\, and reviews. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below: \n\n[gravityform id=”73″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/atheism-in-buddhism-and-nietzsche-as-challenges-to-the-philosophy-of-religion/
LOCATION:Royce 243
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190219T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190219T183000
DTSTAMP:20190212T171840Z
CREATED:20181120T214701Z
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SUMMARY:Strangers\, Neighbors\, Friends
DESCRIPTION:Muslim-Christian-Jewish Reflections on Compassion and Peace \nKelly James Clark\, Aziz Abu Sarah\, Nancy Kreimer \n\n\n\nStrangers\, Neighbors\, Friends is an informed and robust Abrahamic defense of compassion toward neighbors\, strangers and even enemies. It aims to show that Judaism\, Christianity\, and Islam have the resources to motivate respect and love for those of very different faith traditions. According to Eboo Patel\, President of Interfaith Youth Corp\, “[t]hese essays are like rays of light. They provide insight into the Abrahamic traditions\, but more importantly\, they illuminate the path to common life together.” \nEvent Flyer\n\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”71″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/strangers-neighbors-friends/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190213T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190213T173000
DTSTAMP:20190108T200623Z
CREATED:20190108T183838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190108T200623Z
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SUMMARY:Letters from Corinth: The Correspondence of Dionysios of Corinth and the Shape of Early Christianity
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Prof. Concannon tells the story of Dionysios of Corinth\, a largely forgotten Christian bishop from the late second century CE.  While Dionysios was forgotten by ancient Christians and modern scholars\, the traces that remain of his writings suggest that he was connected to a series of early Christian networks bigger than the apostle Paul’s\, that he was active in the major debates among Christian communities in the second century\, and that he was involved in complicated negotiations around memory\, money\, and hospitality.  Recovering the story of Dionysios allows us to see early Christianity from a new perspective. \n  \nDr. Cavan W. Concannon is associate professor of religion at USC.  He is the author of Assembling Early Christianity: Trade\, Networks\, and the Letters of Dionysios of Corinth (Cambridge University Press\, 2017) and ‘When you were Gentiles’: Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul’s Corinthian Correspondence (Yale University Press\, 2014).  He is the co-director of the Mediterranean Connectivity Initiative and holds a PhD in New Testament and Early Christianity from Harvard University. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”74″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/letters-from-corinth-the-correspondence-of-dionysios-of-corinth-and-the-shape-of-early-christianity/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190123T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190123T120000
DTSTAMP:20190108T191432Z
CREATED:20190108T190845Z
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SUMMARY:DWELLING ON THE PAST AND LONGING  FOR HOME: ISRAEL IN EXILE
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the effect of the sixth century BCE deportations to Babylonia on Israelite identity. Paying close attention to the prophetic book of Ezekiel\, whose community was deported from Jerusalem to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar\, it explores how the experience of forced migration changed the way the people talked about themselves\, their past\, and their homeland. To help make sense of these changes\, it places Ezekiel’s reactions in conversation with the responses of more recent forced migrants to similar experiences. \n  \n\nDr. Carly L. Crouch is David Allen Hubbard Professor of Old Testament at Fuller\nTheological Seminary and author of several volumes\, including War and Ethics in the Ancient Near East (2009)\, The Making of Israel (2014)\, Israel and the Assyrians (2014) and An Introduction to the Study of Jeremiah (2017). Her research focuses on the intersection of theology\, ethics\, and community identities\, with a historical focus on the social and intellectual world of ancient Israel and a contemporary interest in the relevance of this work for twenty-first century ethics. She is especially interested in integrating insights from other disciplines\, such as anthropology\, refugee studies\, and postcolonial theory\, into biblical studies. Her current work addresses the effects of Nebuchadnezzar’s destruction of Jerusalem on Israelite and Judahite identities and is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\nE-mail cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/dwelling-on-the-past-and-longing-for-home-israel-in-exile/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T173000
DTSTAMP:20181205T214215Z
CREATED:20181205T214215Z
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SUMMARY:Finding Faithfulness in all the Wrong Places
DESCRIPTION:Finding Faithfulness in all the Wrong Places: Making Sacred Sense of Drunkenness\, Deceit\, and Debauchery in the Hebrew Bible \n\n\n\nThis talk will be “birthed” out of Dr. Peter Lanfer’s current book project (Reading Sacredness in the Badly Behaving Bible) exploring the morally questionable stories of the Hebrew Bible that early Jewish and Christian interpreters had difficulty receiving as scripture. In the interpretive tradition\, many of these stories are whitewashed and/or spiritualized in dramatic ways. For example: David’s illicit marriage to Bathsheba and murder of Uriah the Hittite disappear from the rewritten narratives of 1+2 Chronicles; Abraham is told to lie about Sarah being his sister (and God protects her while inside Pharoah’s harem)\, Noah’s drunken stupor becomes an occasion for prophetic revelation; and Jephthah who sacrifices his daughter is celebrated as a hero of faith. Through an examination of the reception and interpretation of narratives of Drunkenness\, Deceit\, and Debauchery in the Hebrew Bible\, Dr. Lanfer will consider the impact of the textualization/scripturalization of oral narratives on the reception of them in early Jewish and Christian literatures. \n\nEvent Flyer\n\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”72″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/finding-faithfulness-in-all-the-wrong-places/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
CATEGORIES:CSR
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