Events
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Study of Religion Welcome Reception
Royce Hall 306Lift a glass to the new academic year and meet friends old and new! Welcome remarks by Dean Stern and Professor Bakhos at 4:30p. RSVP required by October 11. See...
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The Paradox of Pointless Suffering
Royce Hall 306Why do we suffer? Why do people die young? Is there any point to our excessive pain, physical or emotional? This talk explores the ways that we have tried to...
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D. T. Suzuki: Letters, Lectures and Legacies
Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, United StatesThis Workshop explores the cultural, religious, and intellectual legacy of Daisetsu Teitaro (D. T.) Suzuki (1870–1966), the preeminent figure who introduced Zen and Mahayana Buddhism to the modern Western world....
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Upheavals of Faith: Deconversion, Value Conflict, and Grief
Kaplan 365Why do people grieve a faith they have chosen to leave? If they no longer believe, what exactly have they lost? Ultimately, leaving a religion is rarely the simple loss...
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Idol Talk: False Worship in the Early Christian World
314 Royce HallAre idols real? Do gods or demons dwell in them or around them? Or are they empty, devoid of existence except in the mind of the idolater? Ancient Christians and...
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The Goddess Inana and the Poems of Enheduana
Royce Hall 306Among the Sumerian texts attributed to the priestess Enheduana—who lived and presumably wrote over four thousand years ago and is often called history’s first named author—two are dedicated to the...
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Blood And Divinity: On the Menstruating Goddess Kamakhya
Royce Hall 306This talk draws on a long-term ethnographic study of Ambubachi, the annual divine menstruation of Kamakhya, located in the Northeast Indian state of Assam. Renowned as the key center of saktism, the goddess...
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3rd Annual Pan-UC Religious Studies Conference
314 Royce HallCall for Participation UCLA’s Center for the Study of Religion is pleased to announce plans for convening the 3rd Annual Pan-UC Religious Studies Conference on our campus on Friday,...