Why 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...

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...

What 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...

The Multi-Faith Forum is back! Please join us on Thursday November 9th from 4-5:30 pm to meet our new Religious Diversity Education coordinator Mary Katherine Sheena who will be facilitating...

It’s not surprising that many of the familiar Hebrew Bible tales concerning the four Matriarchs portray them very favorably.  However, the Book of Genesis also relates some episodes about these...

Over the last hundred years or so, a number of theories have been proposed to explain the origins of ancient Israel. All these have been informed to some degree by the...

Sound—whether thunder or psalmody—plays a role in the formation and perception of the sacred. Religions acknowledge the importance of sound, manifested in the voice of God, the call to prayer,...

What does it mean to serve a city? "Faith in Service of the City" is an event designed to create dialogue on--and offer potential models of--how residents of Los Angeles...

CSR Calendar of Events - Winter 2018

Sara Milstein is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Near Eastern Studies in the Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia. She published Tracking the...