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Guiding Presences and the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths
Kaplan Hall 348Novelists sometimes experience their characters as coming to life and guiding their writing process, but the characters remain imaginary. Founders of new religious and spiritual movements paths often go beyond...
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Jesus in Retrospect: From Sin to Perfection
How is it that Jesus came to be viewed by the earliest Christians as "sinless," and what did this mean for them? In this presentation I will explore the process...
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The Public’s Views of the Relationship Between Religion and Science – and the Resulting Disconnect With Social Sciences and the Humanities
In this talk I examine recent sociological research on the relationship between religion and science for the public. This research suggests that while religion may have at one time been...
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Korea Before Nationalism: Judging and Misjudging, the 1801 Silk Letter of Hwang Sayŏng
Royce 243Sponsored by: Center for Korean Studies Co-Sponsored by: Center for Study of Religion, Center for Buddhist Studies In 1801, in the midst of a bloody anti-Catholic persecution, one of...
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Johannes Vermeer and the Doctrine of the Logos
Humanities Bldg, Rm 365During the previous half-century, Johannes Vermeer has emerged as one of the greatest painters of the Baroque era. Nevertheless, the uncommon depth and subtlety of his religious allegories have not...
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Finding Faithfulness in all the Wrong Places
Royce Hall, Rm 314Finding Faithfulness in all the Wrong Places: Making Sacred Sense of Drunkenness, Deceit, and Debauchery in the Hebrew Bible This talk will be “birthed” out of Dr. Peter Lanfer's current...
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DWELLING ON THE PAST AND LONGING FOR HOME: ISRAEL IN EXILE
Royce Hall, Rm 314This 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...
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Bible Women: The Concert
Schoenberg HallIn this inaugural musical collaboration with the Academy for Jewish Religion, CA, esteemed alumni of both UCLA and AJRCA will share songs which give voice to the women of the...
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Letters from Corinth: The Correspondence of Dionysios of Corinth and the Shape of Early Christianity
Royce Hall, Rm 314In 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...
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Strangers, Neighbors, Friends
Royce 306Muslim-Christian-Jewish Reflections on Compassion and Peace Kelly James Clark, Aziz Abu Sarah, Nancy Kreimer Strangers, Neighbors, Friends is an informed and robust Abrahamic defense of compassion toward neighbors, strangers and...