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SUMMARY:Creating Gods Through Narratives: The Ontology of Greek Mythic Characters
DESCRIPTION:This paper will open with an overview of recent work by narratologists and analytical philosophers on the ontology of fictional characters. From there it proceeds to arguments about the ontological status of characters who appear in fictionalizing narratives such as the Odyssey or the Ramayana who are simultaneously the objects of religious belief. I suggest that such characters draw certain unique advantages from the ways in which their stories are narrated. Gods are described in different ways on different occasions. The ‘human’ god is easier to believe in\, but the ‘theologically correct’ god can better be used to explain certain aspects of the way the world works and justify social norms. The Greek gods are portrayed in both ways. Cumulatively\, the narratives created gods who were credible enough to believe in but powerful enough to matter. \n  \nSarah Iles Johnston is the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Religion and Professor of Classics and Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University. She is the author of several books\, including Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece (1999)\, Ancient Greek Divination (2008) and The Story of Myth (2018)\, and the editor of several others\, including Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide (2004). Her current interests focus on how religious beliefs are created and sustained; her next project is a book on the development of the ghost story in Victorian and Edwardian England \n  \nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”35″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/creating-gods-narratives-ontology-greek-mythic-characters/
LOCATION:Royce 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T180000
DTSTAMP:20180202T214015Z
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SUMMARY:Unveiling Judeo-Spanish Texts: A Hebrew Aljamiado Workshop & Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The Hebrew Aljamiado Research Group of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies are offering a workshop in learning to read 14th-16th century Judeo-Spanish texts written using the Hebrew alphabet: Hebrew “aljamiado” writing. Attendees will also learn about the cultural context of Hebrew aljamiado writing in the Iberian Peninsula and in the Sephardic diaspora. \nProfessor Michelle Hamilton of Spanish & Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota\, a leading scholar of these texts\, will close the workshop with a lecture on “The Hebrew Aljamiado Versions of Ms. Parma 2666 and Their Cultural Significance: Danza de la muerte\, Visión delectable.” \nThe four-hour afternoon workshop will offer hands-on practice with representative texts written in Hebrew aljamiado: Shem Tov de Carrión\, Proverbios morales (14th C.)\, Alfonso de la Torre\, Visión delectable (15th C.)\, Danza de la muerte (15th C.)\, León Hebreo\, Diálogos de amor (16th C.). \nThe workshop is free and open to the public\, but advanced registration is requested. Attendees should have a basic knowledge of modern Spanish. Familiarity with the Hebrew alef-bet is also helpful. However\, materials will be distributed prior to the workshop in order to introduce attendees to the Hebrew alef-bet and the basics of its use in writing Judeo-Spanish texts. \nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP here at\nhttp://cmrs.ucla.edu/event/hebrew-aljamiado-workshop/ \nFor inquiries concerning the workshop\, please contact John Dagenais (dagenais@humnet.ucla.edu).
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/unveiling-judeo-spanish-texts-hebrew-aljamiado-workshop-lecture/
LOCATION:Royce 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T190000
DTSTAMP:20180119T005523Z
CREATED:20180116T195757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180119T005523Z
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SUMMARY:Heart & Sole 2nd Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Study of Religion invites students to participate in Heart & Sole\, an innovative workshop designed to educate students about religious diversity\, help them explore their own beliefs and values\, and teach the skills needed to engage in inter-religious dialogue with their peers on campus.\nJoin us in our effort to make Heart & Sole a campus wide initiative that fosters increased understanding around religious diversity and contributes to positive campus climate at UCLA!\nWe are looking for 20 students to participate in the workshop on Wednesday February 21st from 5pm-7pm. Students from all backgrounds are invited and encouraged to participate! \n  \nHeart & Sole Workshop Overview\nIntroductions and Dialogue Skills: The workshop will start with introductions and icebreakers then move on to dialogue activities. Through interactive and reflective exercises participants will:\n• Learn about the concept of religious pluralism.\n• Identify the influences that inform their beliefs and values.\n• Practice reflective listening and speaking. \nWalk and Talk: Participants will partner with a peer who is from a different religious tradition/belief community and go for a short walk on campus. Together they will share their perspectives and discuss a series of reflection questions. \nGroup Dinner: Participants will gather as group and share their experiences over a delicious dinner in the Kaplan Hall\, Room 348. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”36″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]\n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/heart-sole-2nd-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg\, Rm 348\, 348 Humanities Bldg\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180220T133000
DTSTAMP:20180112T225004Z
CREATED:20180103T165600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T225004Z
UID:3783-1519128000-1519133400@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Did Adam Fall\, Stumble\, or Stub his Toe in the Garden of Eden? A New Look at an Ancient Story
DESCRIPTION:Ziony Zevit is Distinguished Professor of Biblical Literature and Northwest Semitic Languages at the American Jewish University since 1974. Prior to joining AJU\, Dr. Zevit taught at the University of Haifa\, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev\, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, and UC Berkeley. He has held visiting professorships at Univ. of Pennsylvania\, UCLA\, USC\, UCSD\, and the Hebrew University. He also participated in archaeological excavations at Tel Lachish and at Tel Dan. In 2013 was appointed Visiting Distinguished Professor at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. \n  \nThis seminar will examine a few salient features of the Garden of Eden story after reconsidering its vocabulary and grammar. The examination yields new insights into the story’s plot that have broad implications for correcting contemporary notions about what it meant and its significance in the context of ancient Israel’s civilization. \nModerator: William Schniedewind \nSponsored by the\nUCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\nCosponsored by the\nUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures\nUCLA Center for the Study of Religion \nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP for Event\nwww.cjs.ucla.edu/rsvp-to-event/  \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/adam-fall-stumble-stub-toe-garden-eden-new-look-ancient-story/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180215T160000
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DTSTAMP:20180209T201236Z
CREATED:20180112T220019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180209T201236Z
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SUMMARY:Jewish Reactions to the Prophet Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:When Muhammad began his mission in Arabia in the early 7th century\, he preached his new revelation not only to the pagan Arabs among whom he was raised but also to the Jewish (and Christian) community among whom he came to live. How did the Jews of Muhammad’s day react? What did they think of his claims to have a new/old revelation of God\, and his claims to be a prophet like their prophet Moses? In attempting to answer these questions\, we will look at early Jewish polemics against Muhammad in the early Islamic era\, polemics preserved only in the Islamic sources themselves. We will then compare these early Jewish responses to later medieval Jewish writings on Muḥammad\, as found in the writings of such luminaries as Maimonides\, Daniel al-Qumisi\, and Ibn Adret. Do these early and later reactions have anything in common? How much do the Jewish reactions to Muhammad change with time and place? And\, what can the medieval Jewish reactions tell us about the historicity of the Muslim sources’ presentation of the contemporaneous Jewish reaction? \n  \nShari Lowin is Professor of Religious Studies and Program Director of Middle Eastern Studies at Stonehill College\, Massachusetts. Her research centers on the interplay between Judaism and Islam in the early and early medieval Islamic periods\, c. 800-1200 CE\, focusing mainly on the development of Jewish and Muslim exegetical narratives. Of her most recent publications is Arabic and Hebrew Love Poems of al-Andalus (Routledge\, 2013)\, which examines these narratives in Arabic and Hebrew eros poetry of Muslim and Jewish religious scholars in 10th-13th century Muslim Spain. Other works include comparative studies of Judaism and Islam focused on the narratives of Abraham and on accounts of enemies of God in the midrash aggadah and in the ḥadīth\, including a monograph entitled The Making of a Forefather: Abraham in Islamic and Jewish Exegetical Narratives (Brill\, 2006). Lowin is also the editor of the Review of Qur’anic Research. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \n[gravityform id=”34″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/jewish-reactions-prophet-muhammad/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg\, Rm 365
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180213T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180213T140000
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CREATED:20180207T174235Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn
DESCRIPTION:Open to students of RELIGN M50: \nJoin Professor Bakhos for a reading and discussion of Biblical passages of your choosing over lunch. \nPLEASE RSVP BELOW: \n[gravityform id=”38″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/lunch-learn/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg\, Rm 365
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T180000
DTSTAMP:20180126T215727Z
CREATED:20180112T214855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180126T215727Z
UID:3840-1517500800-1517508000@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Satan in the Bible\, God's Minister of Justice
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the ages\, Satan has been seen as God’s implacable enemy\, fiercely determined to keep as many human beings as he can from entering the heavenly kingdom. But according to Henry Ansgar Kelly\, this understanding dates only from post-biblical times\, when Satan was reconceived as Lucifer\, a rebel angel\, and as the serpent in the garden of Eden. In the Bible itself\, beginning in the book of Job and continuing through the New Testament\, Satan is considered to be a member of the heavenly government\, charged with monitoring the human race. In effect\, he is God’s Minister of Justice\, bent on exposing sin and vice\, especially in virtuous-seeming persons like Job and Jesus. He fills the roles of investigator\, tempter (that is\, tester)\, accuser\, prosecutor\, and punisher\, but also obstructer\, preventer of vice\, and rehabilitator. He is much feared and despised\, accused of underhanded and immoral tactics. His removal from office is promised and his eventual punishment hoped for. The later misreading of Satan as radically depraved transformed Christianity into a highly dualistic religion\, with an ongoing contest between good and evil. Seeing Satan in his true nature\, as a cynical and sinister celestial bureaucrat\, will help to remedy this distorted view. \n  \nHenry Ansgar Kelly is Distinguished Research Professor in the Division of the Humanities at UCLA\, and has served as director of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He is the author of The Devil\, Demonology\, and Witchcraft (2004)\, The Devil at Baptism (2004)\, and Satan: A Biography (2006). \n\nEvent Flyer\n\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”33″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]\n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/satan-bible-gods-minister-justice/
LOCATION:118 Haines Hall
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T173000
DTSTAMP:20180122T192747Z
CREATED:20180119T235158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T192747Z
UID:3939-1517414400-1517419800@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Multi-Faith Forum: Practicing Pluralism in a Religiously Complex World
DESCRIPTION:The Multi-Faith Forum is back! Please join us for reflection and discussion on Wednesday January 31st 4:00PM-5:30PM. Come for the cookies and stay for the conversation! \nThe Multi-Faith Forum was established in 2014 in order to address the needs of students who want to engage topics related to faith\, religion\, religious identity and spirituality\, and who are interested in learning about religious traditions outside the classroom setting. \nStudents of all backgrounds are welcome to attend! \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \n[gravityform id=”37″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/multi-faith-forum-practicing-pluralism-religiously-complex-world/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg\, Rm 365
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180124T190000
DTSTAMP:20180119T005513Z
CREATED:20180109T181136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180119T005513Z
UID:3810-1516813200-1516820400@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Heart & Sole
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Study of Religion invites students to participate in Heart & Sole\, an innovative workshop designed to educate students about religious diversity\, help them explore their own beliefs and values\, and teach the skills needed to engage in inter-religious dialogue with their peers on campus.\nJoin us in our effort to make Heart & Sole a campus wide initiative that fosters increased understanding around religious diversity and contributes to positive campus climate at UCLA!\nWe are looking for 20 students to help us pilot the first workshop Wednesday January 24th from 5pm-7pm. Students from all backgrounds are invited and encouraged to participate! \n  \nHeart & Sole Workshop Overview\nIntroductions and Dialogue Skills: The workshop will start with introductions and icebreakers then move on to dialogue activities. Through interactive and reflective exercises participants will:\n• Learn about the concept of religious pluralism.\n• Identify the influences that inform their beliefs and values.\n• Practice reflective listening and speaking. \nWalk and Talk: Participants will partner with a peer who is from a different religious tradition/belief community and go for a short walk on campus. Together they will share their perspectives and discuss a series of reflection questions. \nGroup Dinner: Participants will gather as group and share their experiences over a delicious dinner in the Kaplan Hall\, Room 348. \nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”28″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/heart-sole/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg\, Rm 348\, 348 Humanities Bldg\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180123T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180123T133000
DTSTAMP:20180112T224835Z
CREATED:20171121T205442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T224835Z
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SUMMARY:Preservation and Innovation: The Tracks of the Master Scribe
DESCRIPTION:Sara Milstein is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Near Eastern Studies in the Classical\, Near Eastern\, and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia. She published Tracking the Master Scribe: Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature (Oxford UP\, 2016)\, and in 2010\, she co-authored with Daniel Fleming The Buried Foundation of the Gilgamesh Epic: The Akkadian Huwawa Narrative (Brill). Her current project\, “Making a Case: The Emergent Near Eastern Legal Mind\,” is funded by a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant. \n  \nWhen we encounter a text\, whether ancient or modern\, we typically start at the beginning and work our way toward the end. For biblical and Mesopotamian literature\, however\, this habit can lead to misinterpretation. In the ancient Near East\, “master scribes”—those who held the authority to produce and revise texts—regularly introduced changes in the course of transmission. One of the most effective techniques in the scribal toolbox was what Milstein calls “revision through introduction\,” a method that allowed scribes to preserve received material while simultaneously recasting it. Milstein demonstrates what is to be gained by disentangling the competing voices in a given work\, a process that allows for the text to be perceived afresh at all stages in its development. \nEvent Flyer\n\nPlease RSVP for Event\nhttp://www.cjs.ucla.edu/rsvp-to-event \n  \nModerator: William Schniedewind \nSponsored by the\nUCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\nCosponsored by the\nUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures\nUCLA Center for the Study of Religion \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/preservation-innovation-tracks-master-scribe/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180401
DTSTAMP:20180126T174322Z
CREATED:20180112T230920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180126T174322Z
UID:3893-1514851200-1522540799@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Winter 2018 Calendar
DESCRIPTION:CSR Calendar of Events – Winter 2018
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/winter-2018-calendar/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T173000
DTSTAMP:20171116T214232Z
CREATED:20171018T200717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171116T214232Z
UID:3544-1511971200-1511976600@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Faith in Service of the City
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to serve a city? “Faith in Service of the City” is an event designed to create dialogue on–and offer potential models of–how residents of Los Angeles use their faith commitments\, tools\, resources\, beliefs\, practices\, and so forth to mobilize service acts to our city. Panelists representing significant faith-motivated organizations in the city will share about the work they do\, the challenges they face\, and the successes they’ve had in a hybrid presentational and moderated dialogue format. Audience Q+A and discussion will also feature. An excellent opportunity to think through relations between theory\, theology\, and practice\, as well as to meet–and potentially join!– those on the front line of service work in the City of Angels. \nSpeakers\n\nFosterall\nClergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) Los Angeles\nCafe 580 Wesley Foundation UCLA\nNewground\n\nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”23″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]\n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/panel-discussion-faith-service-city/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall\, Rm 1200
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171117T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171118T200000
DTSTAMP:20171024T220100Z
CREATED:20171017T221923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171024T220100Z
UID:3523-1510911000-1511035200@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Conference: Sound and the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Sound—whether thunder or psalmody—plays a role in the formation and perception of the sacred. Religions acknowledge the importance of sound\, manifested in the voice of God\, the call to prayer\, collective chant\, and other profound ways. Sound unifies communities in sacred worship and arms sacred hierarchies. It is captured in images and contained in built environments. Sound—human\, angelic\, primordial\, heavenly— is critical to spiritual transformation. The connection of sound and the sacred is born in the first cry of a child emerging from the womb\, and at death\, sound is the last sense to leave the body. Sound is never extinguished; reverberations are theorized to be omnipresent and eternal. Sound fades beyond human cognition but lingers in the atmosphere. \nThis symposium addresses questions that are at the forefront of current academic research in the humanities and sciences. It showcases projects on the acoustical measurement of ancient\, Early Christian\, Byzantine\,Western Medieval\, Islamic and Renaissance temples\, churches\, and mosques. These projects engage scholars in innovative explorations of sound and its reception\, particularly within sacred landscapes. This symposium also considers orality/aurality and performance/reception\, through diachronic\, multidisciplinary\, and transdisciplinary approaches. \nLimited seating. \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/conference-sound-sacred/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171114T160000
DTSTAMP:20171108T023507Z
CREATED:20171017T220433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T023507Z
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SUMMARY:How Ancient Israel Began: A New Archaeological Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Over the last hundred years or so\, a number of theories have been proposed to explain the origins of ancient Israel. All these have been informed to some degree by the biblical text and all have considered the role of New Kingdom Egypt and the collapse of empires throughout the Near East circa 1200-1100 BCE. The lecture will present a radical new proposal: that Egypt itself instigated “Israelite” settlement. \n\n\nAbout the Speaker: David llan is the director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. He has excavated at Tel Arad\, Tel Megiddo\, and Tel Dan. He teaches at Hebrew Union College and has taught at Tel Aviv University\, Hebrew University\, and at Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in mortuary archaeology\, religion\, and ritual in the Chalcolithic period\, the Middle Bronze Age and the early Iron Age of the southern Levant. Since 2005\, he has directed the excavations at Tel Dan in northern Israel. He is also the editor of the journal NGSBA Archaeology.\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSponsored by the\nUCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\nFunding provided by the\nViterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies\nCosponsored by the\nUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures\nUCLA Center for the Study of Religion\nUCLA Costen Institute of Archaeology\n  \n\n\nEvent Flyer\n\n\nPre-registration is required\nEmail: cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu or call (310)-267-5327 \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/ancient-israel-began-new-archaeological-perspective/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171114T133000
DTSTAMP:20171017T215938Z
CREATED:20170929T215158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171017T215938Z
UID:3388-1510660800-1510666200@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Women in the Hands of Men: Rabbinic Interpretations of the Four Matriarchs
DESCRIPTION:It’s not surprising that many of the familiar Hebrew Bible tales concerning the four Matriarchs portray them very favorably.  However\, the Book of Genesis also relates some episodes about these women that seem to imply mixed or even negative judgments about particular aspects of their moral characters.  We’ll examine how the contributions of classical rabbinic commentary create balance and nuance for our understanding of the Matriarchs’ characters—in particular\, through some imaginative and often surprising stories in the midrashic literature that read against the grain of Torah in order to counter the positive or negative implications of the biblical text. \n\nJerry Rabow\, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School\, retired from the practice of law in 1996 to focus on studying\, teaching\, and writing.  He has taught many adult education programs for synagogues\, universities\, book groups\, and other Jewish\, legal\, and general community organizations\, including lecturing extensively about topics related to his books.  He continues to be active as a member and lay leader of Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue in Encino\, and he currently serves as a public member of the Institutional Review Board for Human Subject Research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.  His writings include: Many professional articles on probate\, estate planning\, and taxation; various inspirational poetry\, prayers\, and essays privately published by religious\, literary\, and charitable organizations; A Guide to Jewish Mourning and Condolence\, a nationally distributed booklet now available to the public at www.vbs.org; 50 Jewish Messiahs (Gefen Publishing House)\, telling the life stories of the major Jewish messiah figures since Jesus\, and their impact upon the Christian\, Muslim\, and secular worlds of their time; and The Lost Matriarch: Finding Leah in the Bible and Midrash (Jewish Publication Society)\, which uses classical Midrash and personal commentary to uncover the hidden story of Leah\, perhaps our most important but most neglected biblical Matriarch. \n\nEvent Flyer\n\nLight lunch will be provided\n\nCo-sponsored by: UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\n\n\n\nPlease RSVP for Event\n\n [gravityform id=”19″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/women-hands-men-rabbinic-interpretations-four-matriarchs/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171109T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171109T173000
DTSTAMP:20171102T203229Z
CREATED:20171101T001919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171102T203229Z
UID:3668-1510243200-1510248600@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Multi-Faith Forum
DESCRIPTION:The Multi-Faith Forum is back! Please join us on Thursday November 9th from 4-5:30 pm to meet our new Religious Diversity Education coordinator Mary Katherine Sheena who will be facilitating the group this year. If you are interested in being part of the forum please come and share your ideas and interests with Mary Katherine.  \nCome for the cookies and stay for the conversation! \nAbout the forum: The Multi-Faith Forum was established in 2014 in order to address the needs of students who want to engage topics related to faith\, religion\, religious identity and spirituality\, and who are interested in learning about religious traditions outside the classroom setting. \nStudents of all backgrounds are welcome to attend!   \n[gravityform id=”24″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/multi-faith-forum/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg\, Rm 365
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T133000
DTSTAMP:20171017T214821Z
CREATED:20170914T180146Z
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UID:3375-1510142400-1510147800@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Healing with Joy: Recovering Medicine as a Moral Art in Uganda
DESCRIPTION:What might it mean to recover medicine as a moral art – medicine and health as something beyond a physical\, empirical practice? Drawing heavily on my fieldwork of CURE Children’s Hospital of Uganda\, a pediatric neurosurgical site that pioneered a revolutionary treatment of hydrocephalus\, we’ll explore an integrative healing approach based on their specific practical theology of health and human flourishing and its implementation in their infrastructure\, practices\, and habits\, with particular emphasis on the dialectic of physical and spiritual healing – most notably\, intimate prayer and cutting-edge brain surgery. We will also consider the centrality of joy and suffering as a dyad forming theological underpinnings to human flourishing\, and human flourishing so conceived as a candidate for the ultimate goal of medicine\, as well as discuss challenges of articulating any substantive moral end in empirically driven practices like medicine in secular democratic societies. \n  \n\nRyan Gillespie\, PhD\, is a Lecturer in the Study of Religion Program at UCLA. Broadly\, he is interested in how we talk about what we value\, more specifically intersections of morality & religion\, bioethics\, and the public sphere\, with subinterests in political economy and rhetorics of science. His work has appeared in Philosophy & Rhetoric\, Journal of Medical Humanities\, Quarterly Journal of Speech\, the Journal of Cultural Economy\, International Journal of Communication\, and Communication\, Culture & Critique\, as well as numerous edited book volumes. His current research project\, funded in part by the Templeton Foundation and the Yale Center for Faith and Culture\, asks what a recovery of medicine as a moral art might mean in contemporary practice\, and this talk includes a case study from that project. \nLight lunch will be provided \nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”16″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/healing-joy-recovering-medicine-moral-art-uganda/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T173000
DTSTAMP:20171106T231531Z
CREATED:20171017T211842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171106T231531Z
UID:3481-1510070400-1510075800@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pastries with Professors
DESCRIPTION:Students come and learn more about the majors/minor for The Study of Religion! Come mingle with other current students and faculty members within the department. \nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”18″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/pastries-with-professors/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T133000
DTSTAMP:20171018T221721Z
CREATED:20170908T231804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171018T221721Z
UID:3346-1509537600-1509543000@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:How Much Did Paul of Tarsus Know About the Historical Jesus\, and How and When Did He Know It?
DESCRIPTION:Why did early Christians conclude that four distinct narratives about Jesus and Nazareth and the letters of Paul of Tarsus belonged together in their authoritative Scripture?What do these diverse writings have in common apart from the name “Jesus”? Many prominent 20th century New Testament scholars ignored this question while they fo­cused on contending that Paul had no personal knowledge about the historical Jesus’ teaching and actions\, was totally reliant on hearsay\, then distorted what he heard\, be­trayed Jesus’ intentions\, and became the “first founder of Christianity.” In this lecture I draw on what I have learned from cross-cultural anthropologists and neuroscientists to challenge this view. In sharp contrast\, I seek to show convincingly the many\, strong lines of continuity between Jesus and the transformed Paul\, especially in the radically transformed changes in attitude and behavior each of them sought to generate in their followers. \nS. Scott Bartchy PhD is Emeritus Professor of Christian Origins and History of Religion in UCLA’s Dept. of History. He earned his Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School and his Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from Harvard University. He co-founded UCLA’s Center for the Study of Religion in 1995 and served as its director for fourteen years. He came to UCLA after teaching New Testament Studies at the University of Tuebingen\, Germany\, for nine years. He is internationally known for his schol­arship on ancient slavery and gender issues in early Christianity. \nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”15″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/much-paul-tarsus-know-bout-historical-jesus-know/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T173000
DTSTAMP:20171017T200822Z
CREATED:20170908T230801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171017T200822Z
UID:3342-1509033600-1509039000@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Feeling the Love of a Divinity in Bhakti Vaishnavism\, Christianity\, Sufism\, Shia Islam\, and Buddhism
DESCRIPTION:The sudden intensification of ‘love\,’ ‘union\,’ or ‘belonging’ generates a distinct emotion to which we give the scientific name\, kama muta. In vernacular language\, depending on the context\, moments of kama muta may be called being moved\, touched\, stirred\, enraptured\, mystical ecstasy\, slain in the Spirit; être ému; bewegt sein or gerührt sein; 感动 (gǎn dòng / gam dong / kando)\, etcetera. This emotion is evoked by suddenly feeling ‘close’ to a person or animal (especially an infant)\, a team\, a nation\, nature\, a deceased or former loved one\, or a deity. Rit-uals involving synchronous rhythmic movement\, chanting or singing together can produce the oneness that triggers kama muta; it is congruent with Durkheim’s “collective effervescence.” When kama muta is intense\, people may have a warm or other pleasant feeling in the center of the chest\, goosebumps or chills\, shed tears\, take a deep breath\, place a hand on the chest\, and then possibly feel buoyant and exhilarated. People avidly seek to experience kama muta\, give it to others\, and have it together with others. The spread and durability of Vaishnavism\, Buddhism\, Christianity\, Sufism\, and Shia Islam could be due in part to the affordances they provide for kama muta. \n\nAlan Fiske\, a psychological anthropologist\, is Professor of Anthropology\, University of California\, Los Angeles. He received his BA in Social Relations from Harvard and his PhD in Human Devel-opment from the University of Chicago. He studies how psychology\, culture\, natural selection\, and neurobiology jointly enable humans to cooperate. Previously\, he worked in tuberculosis control\, smallpox eradication\, and development in Malawi\, Democratic Republic of the Congo\, Bangladesh\, and Burkina Faso. He then devoted two years to fieldwork in a small Moose village in Burkina Faso\, working in the Moore language\, studying patterns of social relations. He is the originator of relational models theory\, which has now been tested\, applied\, and extended in over 300 publications by over 300 researchers. He is the author of Structures of Social Life: The Four Elementary Forms of Human Relations\, and co-author of Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create\, Sustain\, End\, and Hon-or Social Relationships. His current research focuses on the causes\, consequences\, and cultural evocation of the emotion called being ‘moved’\, ‘touched\,’ having a ‘heart-warming’ experience\, or feeling mystical ‘rapture’. \nEvent Flyer\n  \nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”14″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/feeling-love-divinity-bhakti-vaishnavism-christianity-sufism-shia-islam-buddhism/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T131500
DTSTAMP:20171018T192714Z
CREATED:20171017T203203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171018T192714Z
UID:3456-1508932800-1508937300@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Islam and Jews in the Holy Land: Land and Nature and the Construction of Jewish Culture
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Dr. Mostafa Hussein will explore the ways the Jewish intelligentsia in pre-state Palestine interacted with Arabo-Islamic civilization\, as demonstrated in Hebrew works treating the geography and the nature of the Holy Land. The talk will also highlight how the Jewish engagement with Islamic culture contributed to the Jewish connection to the land and its nature. It will demonstrate how Jewish individuals who viewed themselves as culture shapers and scholars incorporated and exploited Arabo-Islamic knowledge within the domain of yediʿat ha-arets [the intimate knowledge of the land]. \nThe Hebrew scholarly treatment of the historical geography of Palestine/Israel generally runs along four axes : (1) an emphasis on the importance of Arabic and Islamic knowledge for the advancement of yediʿat ha-arets; (2) an effort at identifying place-names that appear in biblical and post-biblical sources with their equivalent in modern Palestine and associating them with Arabic place-names; (3) a prioritization of certain places of interest to Jews in view of data preserved in Arabo-Islamic sources; and (4) the construction of a pictorial account of Arab inhabitants’ relationship with the Land of Palestine/Israel. \nMostafa Hussein is a postdoctoral scholar and a teaching fellow in the School of Religion at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. His doctoral dissertation titled “Hebrew Scholarship on Islam” explored the various ways of interaction between Jewish intellectuals and Arabo-Islamic civilization in Late Ottoman through Mandatory Palestine and during the early years of the state of Israel. His research focuses on the encounter between Jews and Islam in modern times in the Middle East as exploring main themes in the mutual perceptions of Jews and Muslims as they were represented in the writings of intellectuals from both sides. \nPlease RSVP for Event\nhttp://www.international.ucla.edu/israel/event/12694
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/islam-jews-holy-land-land-nature-construction-jewish-culture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T180000
DTSTAMP:20170908T230252Z
CREATED:20170824T230104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170908T230252Z
UID:3292-1507737600-1507744800@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:CSR Fall Welcome Reception 2017
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URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/2017-fall-reception/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170608T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170608T180000
DTSTAMP:20170516T200004Z
CREATED:20170516T195830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T200004Z
UID:3021-1496937600-1496944800@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Trialogue: Spiritual but not Religious: Perspectives on a Perceived Disjunction
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URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/trialogue-spiritual-not-religious-perspectives-perceived-disjunction/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T133000
DTSTAMP:20170522T202651Z
CREATED:20170404T230311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170522T202651Z
UID:2706-1495627200-1495632600@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:How Prayer Solves Problems and Creates Them: Spontaneity and Certainty in Evangelical Spiritual Life
DESCRIPTION:American Evangelicals believe prayer can do a lot\, both for themselves and for the world. Yet just as prayer solves problems for them\, it also creates them.  Two especially important problems are spontaneity and certainty: it’s important for Evangelicals to feel as though they “really mean it” when they pray and that they understand God’s will as they seek advice and guidance. In this talk\, I draw on Heidegger and other studies of technology to think about how particular “cultural tools” become useful and habituated\, and how they then create new problems which might or might not be solvable which the original tool in question. The historical basis of Evangelicals’ optimism about prayer also has important political implications for contemporary discussions of Evangelicals’ relationship to social problems\, as it emphasizes the importance of spontaneity\, authenticity\, and individual relationships over more prosaic and traditional organizational structures.\nJeffrey Guhin is an assistant professor of Sociology at UCLA.  His first book\, forthcoming from Oxford\, is titled Make Belief: When Morality Matters in Muslim and Christian Schools.  The book is a comparison of two Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian high schools in the New York City area. He maintains research interests in Islam\, Evangelicalism\, education\, and sociological theory. \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”11″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/prayer-solves-problems-creates-prayer-cultural-tool-american-evangelicals/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T160000
DTSTAMP:20170417T161118Z
CREATED:20170417T161053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170417T161118Z
UID:2948-1495099800-1495209600@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Learning the Other's Past: History\, Education\, and Curricula in Israel/Palestine
DESCRIPTION:A conference convened by David N. Myers (UCLA) & Sami Adwan (Hebron University) \nRSVP\nRSVP required\, space is limited. \n  \nThis international conference will bring together historians\, education scholars\, and elementary and secondary school teachers to discuss the way in which Palestinians and Israelis teach their own and the other’s history. Underlying our discussions is the question of whether history can be a tool of deeper understanding and even reconciliation. \n  \n310-825-1181\nCNES@international.ucla.edu \n  \nSponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Department of History\, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies\, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\, Center for the Study of Religion\, University of Haifa\, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy\, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History\, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Estate\, Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME)\, Office of the UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/learning-others-past-history-education-curricula-israelpalestine/
LOCATION:UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center\, 425 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T133000
DTSTAMP:20170427T211354Z
CREATED:20170330T215141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170427T211354Z
UID:2902-1495022400-1495027800@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Death of Jesus: Comparing Christian\, Jewish\, and Muslim Accounts
DESCRIPTION:All three religions’ representations of how Jesus/Yeshu/`Isa died\, developed over centuries\, promoted very different understandings and valuations of the event itself\, its aftermath\, and its significance. At stake in these competing narratives were claims about messiahship\, prophethood\, divine sonship—and God’s favored people.  A close weighing side-by-side of (a) select Christian interpretations of the meaning of Jesus’s death in Gospels\, creeds\, and art\, (b) two Jewish writings—a parody of the life of Yeshu/Jesus and a 7th century apocalypse announcing the imminent appearance of the messiah\, Menahem\, and (c) alternative treatments of `Isa’s/Jesus’s death in the Qur’an\, among its interpreters\, and in Muslim paintings\, lays bare numerous elaborations of viewpoint and argument. A sharp case of the kind of story or teaching that contributed to the divergence and independent existence of Judaism\, Christianity\, and Islam as religions\, this exploration at the same time underlines a shared\, and core eschatological mentality: a day of judgment approaches. \n  \nRobert Gregg came to Stanford in 1987 from the faculty of Duke University.   Prior to becoming in 1999 the Teresa Moore Professor of Religious Studies\, he served as Dean of Stanford Memorial Church\, while also holding a professorship in Religious Studies and Classics (1987-1999). Gregg’s scholarship includes a book on philosophies about grieving the dead in ancient Greek\, Roman\, and Christian communities; two volumes concerning struggles over orthodoxy and heresy in 4th century Christianity; a translation of Athanasius’ famous Greek life of the desert monk\, Saint Anthony; and a book treating the interactions between Jews\, “pagans\,” and Christians in the Golan Heights and Syria\, 1st-7th centuries CE.   Professor Gregg recently published (Oxford\, 2015) Shared Stories\, Rival Tellings—Early Encounters of Jews\, Christians\, and Muslims\, which treats  project several “scriptural” narratives appearing in the two Bibles and in the Qur’an.  This is a comparative study of the ways five of these stories were differently interpreted by Jewish\, Christian\, and Muslim writers and painters between the 1st and the 13th centuries. \n[gravityform id=”8″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/death-jesus-comparing-christian-jewish-muslim-accounts-2/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
ORGANIZER;CN="Sunny Kim":MAILTO:sunnyhjkim@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T180000
DTSTAMP:20170427T164811Z
CREATED:20170322T211842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170427T164811Z
UID:2861-1494518400-1494525600@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Paradisiacal Realms in Ancient Egypt and Early China
DESCRIPTION:Keynote Lecture for the UCLA Graduate Conference on Religion:\nPerforming Devotion: Religious Rituals and Religious Practices\n  \nThis talk explores the concept and representation of post-mortem paradises in Ancient Egypt and Early China. The notion of a paradise for the worthy\, accessed through personal piety\, ethical conduct or ritual knowledge\, developed at a particular historical moment in the development of each of these great civilizations and expressed a genuine desire on the part of regular people for salvation and immortality. These expressions would have a lasting impact on the development of paradisiacal realms in the later universal religions of Christianity and Buddhism. After a brief introduction to the nature of the soul and the geography of the afterlife in each civilization\, the talk explores the features and iconography of the Marsh of Reeds in Egypt and the paradise of the Queen Mother of the West on Mt. Kunlun in China as revealed in texts\, illustrative vignettes\, painted tomb murals\, and stone carvings. A special focus will be on ritual practices that would assist oneself or one’s deceased relatives in attaining entrance to paradise\, including the playing of ritual board games like senet and liubo. \n  \nGraduate Conference 2017 Keynote Lecture by:\nDr. Anthony Barbieri-Low\, History Department\, UC Santa Barbara \nAnthony Barbieri-Low specializes in the social\, legal\, and material culture history of Early China.  He has published books on Chinese law and the social history of artisans\, as well as an exhibition catalog and computer simulation of a group of offering shrines from a family cemetery in northeast China.  His current research seeks to compare several aspects of the early imperial civilizations of China and Egypt. \n  \nThis conference is made possible by the generous support of\nUCLA Asia Institute \nand the cosponsorship of:\nUCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\, UCLA Department of English\, UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures\, UCLA Department of History\, UCLA Department of Philosophy\, and the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance \n[gravityform id=”7″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/paradisaical-realms-ancient-egypt-early-china/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
ORGANIZER;CN="Michael S. Chen":MAILTO:uclareligionconference@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170512T173000
DTSTAMP:20170427T164303Z
CREATED:20170421T213733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170427T164303Z
UID:2703-1494489600-1494610200@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Graduate Conference on Religion- Performing Devotion: Religious Rituals and Religious Practices
DESCRIPTION:Study of Religion Graduate Student Conference \n\n[gravityform id=”3″ title=”true” description=”true”]\n\n[gravityform id=”7″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/performing-devotion-religious-rituals-religious-practices/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
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ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170508T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170508T190000
DTSTAMP:20170330T210508Z
CREATED:20170330T210508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170330T210508Z
UID:2897-1494262800-1494270000@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Beyond Honor and Shame: Rabbinic Control of Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Restrictions imposed on women in Mediterranean societies both past and present are often understood to reflect a gendered model of “honor and shame” that conditions men’s status on their female relatives’ sexual purity. This talk will use legal documents from the Cairo Geniza\, an enormous corpus of everyday papers preserved in a synagogue in Cairo\, to examine why and how Jews in medieval Egypt limited women’s movements—and to argue that this uniquely well-documented population understood gendered shame more as an economic than a sexual problem.  \n  \nEve Krakowski is an assistant professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at Princeton University. She studies the social history of the medieval Middle East\, mainly through documents preserved in the Cairo Geniza. Her work to date has focused on gender\, kinship\, and rabbinic legal practice among Jews in Fatimid and Ayyubid Egypt. Her first book\, tentatively titled Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Young Women and Society among the Jews of the Cairo Geniza\, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. \nSponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Center for the Study of Religion\, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/beyond-honor-shame-rabbinic-control-jewish-women-medieval-egypt/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures":MAILTO:CNES@international.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170429T170000
DTSTAMP:20170418T184859Z
CREATED:20170407T161132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170418T184859Z
UID:2927-1493460000-1493485200@religion.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Indian Roots of Global Buddhism
DESCRIPTION:RSVP HERE \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/indian-roots-global-buddhism/
LOCATION:Haines A 39\,  375 Portola Plz\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
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