Events
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The Indian Roots of Global Buddhism
Haines A 39 375 Portola Plz, Los Angeles, United StatesRSVP HERE
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Beyond Honor and Shame: Rabbinic Control of Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt
Royce Hall, Rm 314Restrictions imposed on women in Mediterranean societies both past and present are often understood to reflect a gendered model of “honor and shame” that conditions men’s status on their female...
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Graduate Conference on Religion- Performing Devotion: Religious Rituals and Religious Practices
Royce Hall, Rm 306Study of Religion Graduate Student Conference
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Paradisiacal Realms in Ancient Egypt and Early China
Royce Hall, Rm 306Keynote Lecture for the UCLA Graduate Conference on Religion: Performing Devotion: Religious Rituals and Religious Practices This talk explores the concept and representation of post-mortem paradises in Ancient Egypt...
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The Death of Jesus: Comparing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Accounts
Royce Hall, Rm 314All three religions’ representations of how Jesus/Yeshu/`Isa died, developed over centuries, promoted very different understandings and valuations of the event itself, its aftermath, and its significance. At stake in these...
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Learning the Other’s Past: History, Education, and Curricula in Israel/Palestine
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United StatesA conference convened by David N. Myers (UCLA) & Sami Adwan (Hebron University) RSVP RSVP required, space is limited. This international conference will bring together historians, education scholars, and...
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How Prayer Solves Problems and Creates Them: Spontaneity and Certainty in Evangelical Spiritual Life
Royce Hall, Rm 314American Evangelicals believe prayer can do a lot, both for themselves and for the world. Yet just as prayer solves problems for them, it also creates them. Two especially important...
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Trialogue: Spiritual but not Religious: Perspectives on a Perceived Disjunction
Royce Hall, Rm 306Free -
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CSR Fall Welcome Reception 2017
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Islam and Jews in the Holy Land: Land and Nature and the Construction of Jewish Culture
In this lecture, Dr. Mostafa Hussein will explore the ways the Jewish intelligentsia in pre-state Palestine interacted with Arabo-Islamic civilization, as demonstrated in Hebrew works treating the geography and the...