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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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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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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
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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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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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