Events
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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...
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Feeling the Love of a Divinity in Bhakti Vaishnavism, Christianity, Sufism, Shia Islam, and Buddhism
Royce Hall, Rm 306The sudden intensification of ‘love,’ ‘union,’ or ‘belonging’ generates a distinct emotion to which we give the scientific name, kama muta. In vernacular language, depending on the context, moments of...
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How Much Did Paul of Tarsus Know About the Historical Jesus, and How and When Did He Know It?
Royce Hall, Rm 306Why did early Christians conclude that four distinct narratives about Jesus and Nazareth and the letters of Paul of Tarsus belonged together in their authoritative Scripture?What do these diverse writings...
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Pastries with Professors
Students come and learn more about the majors/minor for The Study of Religion! Come mingle with other current students and faculty members within the department. Event Flyer Please RSVP for...
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Healing with Joy: Recovering Medicine as a Moral Art in Uganda
Royce Hall, Rm 306What might it mean to recover medicine as a moral art – medicine and health as something beyond a physical, empirical practice? Drawing heavily on my fieldwork of CURE Children’s...