Events
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Caste Marketing: How Hindu Rituals Sell Brahminical Supremacy
Zoom"Caste marketing" can be understood in several ways: a description of how companies market products based on a caste profile of their users or “caste” groups as targeted market. This...
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Hearing the Listeners: Jain Perspectives from India’s Islamic Past. A Conversation with Steven M. Vose and Audrey Truschke, moderated by Alka Patel
ZoomPerhaps uniquely in South Asia, Jains wrote voluminously about their interactions with Muslim rulers from the Delhi Sultanate to the Mughal Empire. Their writings present us with unparalleled views of...
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The Jewish Discovery of Islam Revisited
Haines 39/ZoomFrom the oldest European Christian engagements with the Qur’an in the Middle Ages through the advent of modern academic approaches to the Muslim scripture, scholars have frequently seen qur’anic narratives...
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Study of Religion: Spring Snack Social
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A Conversation with Michael Schur
314 Royce HallMichael Schur is a television producer, writer, actor and author of How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Questions. With Pamela Hieronymi, Professor at UCLA Department of...
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Do Robots Have Souls? Intelligent Machines, Digital Humans, and the Future of Technology
ZoomIn this lecture, Sylvester A. Johnson interprets the work of Ibn Rushd (“Averroës"), the twelfth-century Islamic scholar of Andalusia who achieved renown as the ‘father’ of secularism, in order to...
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Song of Songs, Time after Time
Haines 39/ZoomThe Song of Songs has been subject to numerous and varying interpretive approaches since its emergence. Drawing from her recently published book, Perils of Wisdom: The Scriptural Solomon in Jewish...
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The Ten Commandments: Who What When Where Why
Kaplan 365For over two thousand years the Ten Commandments have been understood as the fundamental set of divine laws in the Hebrew Bible. Even for those who do not believe that...
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Losing Control of the gods: How Religion Slipped Out of the Hands of Men in the Early Roman Empire
Dodd Hall 248The dignified and extravagant public rituals of Romans - ancestral institutions as the last generations of the Republic imagined them - definitively failed in the last century BCE. Future senatorial...
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Wolakota kagapi: The Study of Peace Making on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
314 Royce HallUnfortunately, the Center for the Study of Religion must postpone this event due to extenuating circumstances. We apologize for the inconvenience, and look forward to welcoming you at our next...

