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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T133000
DTSTAMP:20170321T163405Z
CREATED:20170321T163058Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Muslims and the Making of America: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:There has never been an America without Muslims. Yet in our current political climate\, there is ignorance and fear about Muslims. Join us for a conversation with Amir Hussain\, a professor at LMU and expert on America’s Muslims. He will talk about his new book\, Muslims and the Making of America\, which discusses the contributions that American Muslims have made to what it means to be American. \n\nDr. Amir Hussain is Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University\, where he teaches courses on Islam and world religions. He is an advisor for the television series The Story of God with Morgan Freeman\, and since 2008 has been a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. \n  \n  \nEvent free and open to the public \n  \n[gravityform id=”5″ title=”true” description=”true”]\n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-muslims-making-america-conversation/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
ORGANIZER;CN="Sunny Kim":MAILTO:sunnyhjkim@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170425T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170425T140000
DTSTAMP:20170419T161919Z
CREATED:20170412T232644Z
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SUMMARY:The Spirituality of Jesus in the New Millennium: A Fourth Quest for Jesus
DESCRIPTION:Over the last century and a half\, the one conclusion of critical biblical scholarship is actually twofold: the dehistoricization of John and the de-Johannification of Jesus. The problem with these two platforms\, however\, is that despite being different and theological\, the Fourth Gospel is also mundane and topographically grounded\, conveying more archaeologically attested details than all the other gospels combined. If all sources for understanding the Jesus of history are to be considered\, John deserves to be in the mix; the question is how to do so and how to consider John’s content among the Gospels. \n  \nPaul N. Anderson serves as Professor of Biblical and Quaker Studies at George Fox University\, as Extraordinary Professor of Religion at the North West University of Potchefstroom\, South Africa\, and as Visiting Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Tradition at Chapman University (spring 2017). Author of over two hundred published essays and author or editor of a dozen books\, Anderson is a co-founder of the John\, Jesus\, and History Project. His contextual introduction to the New Testament\, From Crisis to Christ\, offers new paradigms for biblical interpretation\, and his books on John include The Christology of the Fourth Gospel\, The Fourth Gospel and the Quest for Jesus\, and The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel. His Ph.D. is from Glasgow University\, and he has served as a visiting professor or scholar at the Radboud University of Nijmegen (Fulbright Specialist)\, the Guttenberg University of Mainz (DAAD)\, Princeton Theological Seminary\, and Yale Divinity School. He edited Quaker Religious Thought and Evangelical Friend\, and he is the New Testament editor of the Biblical Interpretation Series (E.J. Brill)\, the co-editor of the Johannine Monograph Series (with Alan Culpepper\, Wipf & Stock)\, and founding editor of the Quakers and the Disciplines Series (Friends Association for Higher Education). \n[gravityform id=”9″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/spirituality-jesus-new-milennium-fourth-quest-jesus/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg\, Rm 348\, 348 Humanities Bldg\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Sunny Kim":MAILTO:sunnyhjkim@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170420T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170420T133000
DTSTAMP:20170418T165603Z
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SUMMARY:Lucas Cranach and Martin Luther: Sacred Art at the Dawn of the Reformation
DESCRIPTION:The allegorical paintings and altarpieces that Lucas Cranach made in Wittenberg during his association with Martin Luther reveal a Reformation that is different from the one we know in books.  This lecture examines the iconography of some of the earliest protestant artworks\, made by some of the greatest artists of the German Renaissance\, with an emphasis on the paintings that Cranach made at the epicenter of the Reformation. \n  \n\nGregory Harwell lives in Los Angeles has taught Northern Renaissance and Baroque Art History at UCLA since 2011.  He writes about Renaissance and Baroque art\, numismatics\, religion and history\, and is currently working on a book about the French painter Chardin. \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”6″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/lucas-cranach-martin-luther-sacred-art-dawn-reformation/
LOCATION:Charles E. Young Research Library\, 280 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles \, 90095\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Sunny Kim":MAILTO:sunnyhjkim@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170404T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170404T173000
DTSTAMP:20170321T155803Z
CREATED:20170321T155611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T155803Z
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SUMMARY:Divine Law and Community Boundaries in Jewish Antiquity
DESCRIPTION:Royce Hall\, 314 \nIn late antiquity\, two radically distinct conceptions of divine law—Greek natural law grounded in reason and biblical law grounded in revelation—confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. This talk explores these responses and highlights their role in creating and maintaining distinct communities in the world of late antique Judaism. \n\nChristine Hayes is the Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica at Yale. A specialist in talmudic-midrashic studies\, Hayes is the author of three scholarly books: Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds\, recipient of the 1997 Salo Baron prize for a first book in Jewish thought and literature; Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities\, a 2003 National Jewish Book Award finalist; and What’s Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives (Princeton University Press\, 2015). She has authored two introductory volumes (The Emergence of Judaism and Introduction to the Bible) as well as numerous journal articles. Hayes is active in professional and academic organizations\, and currently serves as Vice-President for program of the Association for Jewish Studies. \nSponsored by: UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies \nCosponsored by the\nUCLA Center for the Study of Religion\nUCLA Department of History \nRSVP: cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/divine-law-community-boundaries-jewish-antiquity/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
ORGANIZER;CN="Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T133000
DTSTAMP:20170303T191924Z
CREATED:20161220T002436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170303T191924Z
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SUMMARY:From the Arc of Ascent to the Arc of Descent: Writings of Baha'u'lla\, the Founder of Baha'i Faith
DESCRIPTION:Baha’u’llah the founder of the Baha’i Faith has written a multitude of letters and books. Written during 40 years of his ministry (1852-1892)\, these writings can be divided into three distinct stages\, each emphasizing a certain mystical and social principle. In this talk the chronological and logical order of these stages will be explored. \n\nSeminar by: Nader Saiedi\, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Cultures and Languages \nNader Saiedi received an MS in economics from Pahlavi University in Iran and a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin\, Madison (1983). He taught sociology at UCLA\, Vanderbilt\, University of Virginia\, and Carleton College. Four years ago he joined UCLA department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures to teach on Baha’i history and religion in Iran. He is an adjunct professor of Baha’i studies. His areas of interest include Iranian Studies\, Baha’i studies\, social theory\, and peace studies. His books include The Birth of Social Theory (1992)\, Logos and Civilization (2000)\, and Gate of the Heart (2008). \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”4″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/arc-ascent-arc-descent-writings-bahaulla-founder-bahai-faith/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg\, Rm 365
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170228T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170228T133000
DTSTAMP:20170224T000540Z
CREATED:20161220T002241Z
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SUMMARY:The Joshua Generation: How David Ben-Gurion and his Political Successors Read the Biblical Book of Conquest
DESCRIPTION:In the name of enshrining the Bible as the central text in Israeli life\, Israeli Prime Minister Ben-Gurion convened a study group at his residence dedicated to interpreting the book of Joshua. The study group participants asserted that the true meaning of the Bible could only be unlocked by Jews living in their ancient homeland. However\, a web of conflicted interpretations emerged from the group and Ben-Gurion’s concluding address set off a fierce debate regarding the basis of citizen rights that has yet to be resolved. \nRACHEL HAVRELOCK\n(University of Illinois at Chicago) \nCosponsored by the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; UCLA Center for the Study of Religion
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/joshua-generation-david-ben-gurion-political-successors-read-biblical-book-conquest/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T133000
DTSTAMP:20170214T233357Z
CREATED:20161220T001947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170214T233357Z
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SUMMARY:Is Freemasonry a Religion or a Pioneering Interfaith Society?
DESCRIPTION:The relationship between Freemasonry and religion is quite a complex one. Some might think Freemasonry is a religion or at least a sect.\nFor others it is an association that has nothing to do with religion\, qualifying it as a charity club when it is not a political think-tank. \nIf Freemasonry is not already a religion\, it is on the verge of becoming one by inviting all religions to find in it their own common roots. We will develop the arguments of each side\, pointing out the place of faith in the Masonic rites and the sacred dimension that is assigned to the work done in the Lodges. We will stop at the figure of the Great Architect of the Universe. Finally\, we will see that Freemasonry offers a reflection on the meaning of life and on the harmony that must prevail. Are religions today\, in a very concrete way\, models for this harmony? \nDr. Said Chaaya\, is a Historian of the Modern Middle East. He is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the History department at UCLA working on Freemasonry and Civil Society in the Middle East. His research focuses on the Intellectual and Political History of the Ottoman Empire and the Modern Arab world especially in the 19th century. He is also a Fellow at the CNRS-GSRL\, the French National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. Dr. Chaaya has published several academic papers in scholarly journals. \nRSVP here
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/freemasonry-religion-pioneering-interfaith-society/
LOCATION:Bunche Hall 6275\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Sunny Kim":MAILTO:sunnyhjkim@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T183000
DTSTAMP:20161220T002048Z
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SUMMARY:Jewish Childhood in Ottoman and Hashemite Iraq
DESCRIPTION:The talk follows the lives of children and young adults in the modern cities of Iraq\, as well as in towns and in villages. I will explore the schools\, libraries\, cafes\, and streets in which children interacted with other children\, and present the different kinds of childhood Jewish children experienced based on their class\, gender and geographical location. The talk also sheds light on children’s relationship with their parents at this period. I will show how children experienced various aspects of Iraqi modernity\, and how children were affected by the state’s sociopolitical and religious divisions.  \nOrit Bashkin is Professor of Modern Middle East History in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Professor Bashkin earned her PhD from Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies in 2005. Her research interests include Arab intellectual history\, modern Iraqi history and the history of Arab-Jews in Iraq and Israel. Professor Bashkin’s first book\, The Other Iraq—Pluralism\, Intellectuals and Culture in Hashemite Iraq\, 1921-1958(Stanford University Press\, 2008) challenges conventional accounts of Iraq as an artificial state perpetually torn by sectarian strife by demonstrating an Iraqi intellectual history of nationalism and pluralism among Sunni\, Shi’i and Kurdish intellectuals. Her second book\, New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq (Stanford University Press\, 2012) chronicles the lives of Iraqi Jews and their ideas about Judaism\, Islam\, secularism\, modernity\, democracy and reform during their last years as a community living in Iraq. Professor Bashkin’s publications include 25 book chapters and articles on the history of Arab-Jews in Iraq\, on Iraqi history and on Arabic literature. \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/jewish-childhood-ottoman-hashemite-iraq/
LOCATION:James West Alumni Center Conference Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170207T133000
DTSTAMP:20170109T190311Z
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SUMMARY:Drumming Away Demons
DESCRIPTION:The inhabitants of the ancient biblical world—including many ancient Israelites—viewed their cosmos as the home of many unseen forces: for example\, powerful gods and their entourages\, but also malevolent demons. This talk explores the possibility that beating upon drums may have been one means by which the ancients warded off these demonic agents. We will particularly consider whether the one hundred or so figurines from ancient Israel and Transjordan that depict females holding round disks (arguably drums) are representations of guardian figures who protected their owners from demonic acts through their drumming activities. \nSusan Ackerman joined the Religion Department in 1990 after teaching at the University of Arizona and at Winthrop College in South Carolina. She is a specialist in the religion of ancient Israel and the religions of Israel’s neighbors (Mesopotamia\, Egypt\, and Canaan)\, an interest she first developed as an undergraduate religion major at Dartmouth (A.B.\, 1980) and continued to explore in graduate school at Harvard (M.T.S.\, 1982; Ph.D.\, 1987). \nPlease register at least 2 days prior to the event by calling (310)267-5327 or by emailing  cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/drumming-away-demons/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T133000
DTSTAMP:20170109T185446Z
CREATED:20161220T001627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T185446Z
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SUMMARY:Quaker Mobility and the Threat to English America
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Carla Pestana of UCLA Department of History. \nThe early Quaker movement took the world by storm beginning in the 1650s\, with “witnesses to the truth” traveling widely to spread their message.  In response\, nervous authorities used various mechanism to contain the threat they were seen to pose. Major themes in early American and English Atlantic history—mobility\, religious diversity\, freedom and suppression—can be explored through an analysis of the early Quakers and the response they invoked. \nRSVP here
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/quaker-mobility-threat-english-america/
LOCATION:Bunche Hall\, Rm 6272
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