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2020 Winter Calendar
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Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion
Haines 279Melissa J. Wilde: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. Sponsored by the Sociology Department. Co-Sponsored by the Study of Religion. More Information
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Christianity, Race, Slavery: New Considerations for the Life Sciences
Haines 39/ZoomThe idea that so-called races reflect inherent biological differences between social groups has been a prominent aspect of Western thought since at least the Enlightenment. While there have been moments...
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Le Monde Invisible: Art, Death and Vodou in Urban Haiti
Royce 243In Haitian Vodou, one lwa (deity) is widely celebrated as the spirit of pèp la (the people). The lwa Gede is a trickster who resides over death and sexual regeneration....
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Canceled! Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law Canceled!
Royce 306Canceled! Though typically translated as “Jewish law,” the term halakhah is not an easy match for what is usually thought of as law. This is because the rabbinic legal system...
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Thinking About Religion: Langston Hughes and a Literary Approach to the Study of African American Religious History
Haines 39/ZoomAfrican American religious history has largely been written from the perspective of believers and belief. But what about the religious perspectives of skeptics, the doubtful, and unbelievers? What value can...
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Religion(s) in State(s) of Crisis
ZoomScholars of religion are not in the fortune telling business, but the comparative study of religion does provide multiple examples of how social, economic, and political crises have contributed to...
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Take Shelter: Teaching and Learning about the End Times, from Late Antiquity to Our Times
ZoomIn Jeff Nichols’s 2011 film Take Shelter, Michael Shannon portrays Curtis, a blue-collar family man who is haunted by terrifying prophetic visions of the end of the world. As he...
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Religion is Physics: A Different Kind of Theory. A Different Kind of Everything.
Zoom(Fear not! No math is required for this talk!) Religion is accused of being many things, but how could Religion be Physics? Physics aims to understand everything with the most...
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The Talmud Talks and We Listen: How the Talmud Became the Authoritative Voice in Jewish Life
ZoomThe Talmud is an obscure, elitist document that emerged from a small community of scholars who held no recognized authority, living as a minority in a land not their own....