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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...
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Antisemitism in the Pagan World
Royce Hall 306/ZoomWhat counts as antisemitism? Did antisemitism exist among Greeks and Romans? How far and how deep did hostility to Jews extend in the pagan and pre-Christian world? What impact did...
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Study of Religion: Commencement Toast 2022
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Welcome Reception Fall 2022
Haines 39/ZoomYou are cordially invited to attend the Center for the Study of Religion Fall 2022 Welcome Reception. We look forward to seeing you there! Event Flyer RSVP Below:
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Tending the Garden: Ahimsa in the Early Indian Literature
314 Royce Hall/ZoomSource: Shakyamuni Buddha - Jataka (Previous Lives). 1800, Zanabazar Mongolia National Museum, Mongolia, https://www.himalayanart.org/items/50191. Accessed 22 Sept. 2022. The practice of ahiṃsā (non-violence) has a long and illustrious history...
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The God of Possibilities: God, Human Freedom and the Obligation to Heal the World by Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller and Professor Leora F. Batnitzky as Respondent
Kaplan Hall 348This discussion constitutes a personal effort at articulating a meaningful notion of God that is spiritually fulfilling, intellectually uncompromising and morally compelling. The search ranges across the Jewish tradition from...