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SUMMARY:Signs of Faith Against Fascism
DESCRIPTION:In this book talk\, Eric Martin will explore how people of faith can connect their religious traditions with the rise of overtly fascist violence in the United States. With first-hand accounts from the largest white supremacist gathering in modern American history at Unite the Right in Charlottesville\, Virginia\, Martin will share how the clergy resisting Nazis and the KKK point a way forward for Christians in particular. His book expands outward to ask what churches can learn from antifascists\, Black Lives Matter\, and those working on the ground to combat the continuing coalition of far-right militias and gangs that promise to endure. It also invites the faithful to imagine a counter-witness that does more than merely preach against hate. Using biblical exegesis\, storytelling\, interviews\, thought experiments\, art\, and theology\, Martin explores how we can rethink notions of civil disobedience\, nonviolence\, love\, prayer\, and liturgy to enflesh a worthy faith in the face of a fascist creep. \nRSVP to this in-person event here. \nRegister for a Zoom link here. \nEric Martin is a lecturer at UCLA for Study of Religion where he teaches about the Bible\, justice and liberation movements\, and spirituality. He also teaches at Loyola Marymount.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/signs-of-faith-against-fascism/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T160000
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SUMMARY:EVENT CANCELLED - Confusion of the Babels: Multilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism
DESCRIPTION:EVENT CANCELLED.\nWhile the usual rendering and  understanding of the Tower of Babel narrative (Gen 11:1–9) presumes the existence of one unified divine and human language (usually Hebrew\, but with other candidates) between Eden and Babel\, an alternative narrative imagines there having already existed a totality of ‘seventy” languages from the beginning\, and only at Babel having been “dispersed\,” “confused\,” or should we say\, “babbled”?  We will explore the basis for this confusion in Scripture and its translations\, Second Temple texts\, early rabbinic teachings\, and\, by extension\, into early Christianity and Islam.  What are the implications of this alternative understanding for the status of Hebrew as a distinctly “Jewish” yet universal language\, and for the conception of language(s) and translation(s) more broadly\, culminating in the seminal article by Walter Benjamin\, “The Task of the Translator”? \nRSVP to this in-person event here.\n  \nSteven D. Fraade\, Mark Taper Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and the History of Judaism at Yale University. Until his retirement in 2022\, Steven Fraade taught for forty-three years courses on rabbinic literature\, the history of Second Temple and early rabbinic Judaism\, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. He regularly offered seminars on midrashic\, mishnaic\, and talmudic texts\, and topics in ancient Jewish history. His research interests include the history of Judaism (in its varieties) in Second Temple and early rabbinic times; biblical translation and exegesis in ancient Judaism and Christianity; the history and rhetoric of ancient Jewish law; the Dead Sea Scrolls; literary-rhetorical analysis of tannaitic and amoraic rabbinic texts; attitudes towards ascetic piety in early Judaism; and multilingualism in ancient Jewish culture.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/confusion-of-the-babels-multilingualism-and-translation-in-ancient-judaism/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 306
CATEGORIES:CSR
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SUMMARY:My Grandfather's Altar
DESCRIPTION:Registration closed. The room is at capacity. \nVENUE CHANGE: This event will now be held at the UCLA Faculty Center. \nRichard Moves Camp\, in conversation with the editor and producer of his book My Grandfather’s Altar: Five Generations of Lakota Holy Men\, shares stories from this oral-literary narrative account of five generations of Lakota religious tradition. Moves Camp is the great-great-grandson of Wóptuȟ’a (“Chips”)\, the holy man remembered for providing Crazy Horse with war medicines of power and protection. The Lakota remember the descendants of Wóptuȟ’a for their roles in preserving Lakota ceremonial traditions during the official prohibition period (1883–1934)\, when the U.S. Indian Religious Crimes Code outlawed Indian religious ceremonies with the threat of imprisonment. \nWóptuȟ’a\, his two sons\, James Moves Camp and Charles Horn Chips\, his grandson Sam Moves Camp\, and his great-great-grandson Richard Moves Camp all became well-respected Lakota spiritual leaders. My Grandfather’s Altar offers the rare opportunity to learn firsthand how one family’s descendants played a pivotal role in revitalizing Lakota religion in the twentieth century. \n  \n  \nRichard Moves Camp (Oglala Lakota) is a fifth-generation Lakota healer\, tribal historian\, and spiritual leader. He teaches at Sinte Gleska University and lectures on Lakota history\, culture and traditions. In 2021\, he was named a Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellow. \nModerated by Jennifer Jessum\, book producer and founder of the Mitakuye Foundation and Simon Joseph\, book editor and Lecturer for UCLA’s Study of Religion IDP. \nCo-sponsored by the Mitakuye Foundation and Steve Aron/Autry Museum of the American West.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/five-generations-of-lakota-holy-men/
LOCATION:UCLA Faculty Center
CATEGORIES:CSR
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SUMMARY:The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion and the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures. \nThe story of the Twelve Tribes of Israel begins in the Hebrew Bible. But all around the world\, there are stories about what happened next – which tribes went where\, what might have happened to them\, what they might have become. This paper\, based on the book by the same name\, explores what happens when we think of all of these as part of the same phenomenon: a history of efforts to create new visions of ancient Israel from the twelve tribes tradition that now spans more than 2\,500 years and circles the globe. \nRSVP to this in-person event here. \nAndrew Tobolowsky is an Associate Professor in the Religious Studies Department at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of two books\, The Sons of Jacob and the Sons of Herakles\, and the book this talk will be based on\, The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. A third\, Between Israel and Greece\, is forthcoming. Dr. Tobolowsky has also written about the twelve tribes tradition for various online outlets – Ancient Jew Review\, TheTorah.com\, Bible Odyssey\, Ancient Near East Today\, and Biblical Archaeology Review – and has been a frequent guest on podcasts and YouTube series. \nModerated by Catherine Bonesho (UCLA)
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/the-myth-of-the-twelve-tribes-of-israel/
LOCATION:UCLA Faculty Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240212T153000
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SUMMARY:Making a Refuge of Resistance: A History of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement
DESCRIPTION:In person (Royce 314)\n \nIs sacred space protective space? This question lies at the heart of the Sanctuary Movement\, the most confrontational progressive religious social movement in the United States since the heyday of the Civil Rights Movement. Modern Sanctuary Movement activists adopted the ancient practice of protecting in designated sanctuaries individuals who stood in legally precarious conditions. From the 1980s to the present day\, this practice has protected undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation by offering them refuge in churches\, where federal agents to this day still fear to tread. The movement has distinguished itself over the past 40 years\, according to one historian\, as the “largest mass mobilization of civil disobedience against detention and deportation in US history.” \n“Making a Refuge of Resistance” asks how these houses of worship protected migrants from immigration enforcement authorities. What histories and testimonies rendered such spaces sacred and lent houses of worship qualities of safe refuge? This lecture is based on Professor Barba’s ongoing research on the Sanctuary Movement. \n\nLloyd Barba is an Assistant Professor of Religion and Core Faculty in Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California (Oxford University Press\, 2022). He is also the editor of Latin American and U.S. Latinx Religion in North America (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2023). Most recently\, he co-edited Oneness Pentecostalism: Race\, Gender\, and Culture (Penn State University Press\, 2023). He is now writing a religious biography of Cesar Chavez and several projects on the U.S. Sanctuary Movement from the 1980s to the present day. His work has been featured in the Washington Post\, The Conversation US\, and other media outlets. He is teaching a course on Latinx Religion for UCLA’s Center for the Study of Religion this winter quarter. \n[gravityform id=”146″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/making-a-refuge-of-resistance/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
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SUMMARY:Colonial Encounters:  Sor Juana\, Guaman Poma\, and the Birth of the Brown Church
DESCRIPTION:In person (Kaplan 365)\n \nThis guest lecture examines the little known multicultural religious protests to the Spanish Conquest of colonial Latin America.  Such protests began in 1511 under the guidance of Dominican friar Antonio de Montesinos and led to “The Great Debate” in which\, for the first time in recorded human history\, an entire nation paused to reflect on the moral injustice of war and colonization.  In the decades and centuries to come\, mestizo\, black\, indigenous\, female\, Spanish\, and Asian voices would arise to challenge the perverted racial and sexist logic of the Spanish colonial project. This talk further examines the lives and voices of three of these diverse leaders—Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca\, Guaman Poma de Ayala\, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.  Together\, these multicultural protests gave birth to the “Brown Church” and a 500 year tradition of Christian social justice in Latin America. \nRobert Chao Romero is an associate professor in the Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies and Central America Studies.  Romero is the author of “Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice\, Theology\, and Identity\,” and co-author of “Christianity and Critical Race Theory” and “God’s Resistance: Mobilizing Faith to Defend Immigrants.”  Romero is also an ordained minister and faith rooted community organizer. \n[gravityform id=”147″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/colonial-encounters-sor-juana-guaman-poma-and-the-birth-of-the-brown-church/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240116T123000
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SUMMARY:How Archaeologists Study the People of the Gospels
DESCRIPTION:In Person (Royce 306) or on Zoom\nRegister here \nHow do archaeologists unearth the daily life of people from Jesus’s time? \nContrary to popular belief\, archaeology of first-century Roman Galilee is not about illustrating or proving the gospels\, drawing timelines\, or hunting treasure. Rather\, it is about understanding the lives of people\, just like us\, who lived in the time of Jesus. How do we conceive of Jesus and his mission as part of a larger world? How did different groups in Roman Galilee understand their identities and values? How do we interpret material culture in conjunction with textual evidence from the gospels? On a more basic level\, how do we know where and how to dig? \nCo-sponsored by the Kershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies  \nJames Riley Strange teaches how to address these problems in his book Excavating the Land of Jesus. Drawing on professional experience as a scientific archaeologist in Israel\, Strange explains current methodology for ground surveying\, excavating evidence\, and interpreting data. James Strange received the Charles Jackson Granade and Elizabeth Donald Granade Chair in New Testament in the fall of 2017. He is a 2015 recipient of the Dean’s Award for Research\, Howard College of Arts and Sciences\, and a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society. Strange is Director of the Shikhin Excavation Project in Israel and researches archaeology of Palestine in the Hellenistic through Byzantine periods\, early Christianity and post-biblical Judaisms. He teaches courses in New Testament\, ancient Greco-Roman Religions\, and the archaeology of Palestine.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/excavating-the-land-of-jesus/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:CSR
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231128T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231128T151500
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SUMMARY:The Formation of Classical Islam from Muhammad to the Abbasids
DESCRIPTION:In person (Haines 39) or on Zoom \nRegister here for both in-person or Zoom attendance \nReturning to UCLA by popular demand\, this lecture by Walid Saleh (University of Toronto) provides an overview of the major features of Classical Islam that solidified during the early Abbasid period. Such features include the  rise of major religious sciences and the textual tradition that became part of the scholarly and religious tradition. \nProfessor Walid A. Saleh is a specialist on the Qur’an\, the history of its interpretation (Tafsir)\, the Arabic manuscript tradition\, Islamic apocalyptic literature\, and the Muslim reception of the Bible. His first book The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition (Brill\, 2004) was the first monograph length study of al-Thalabi (d. 1035) and his influence in the history of Qur’an commentary tradition.  His second monograph\, In Defense of the Bible (Brill\, 2008)\, is a detailed study and an edition of al-Biqa`i’s (d. 1480) Bible treatise\, “The Just Verdict on the Permissibility of Quoting from Old Scriptures\,” which is the most extensive discussion of the place of the Bible in the Islamic religious tradition. \nProfessor Saleh is the editor of the Routledge Qur’an Series. He is also on the editorial board of Journal of the American Academy of Religion\, and the Journal of Qur’anic Studies. \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/the-formation-of-classical-islam-from-muhammad-to-the-abbasids/
LOCATION:Haines 39/Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231127T163000
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SUMMARY:Teach-in for Peace
DESCRIPTION:ROOM FULL for in- person attendance. Accepting Zoom registration only.\nRSVP required. Register here \nExplore sources of peace and non-violence with leading teachers\, including: \n\nSalam Al-Marayati – Muslim Public Affairs Council\nProfessor Carol Bakhos – UCLA Center for the Study of Religion\nRabbi Sharon Brous – Ikar\nProf./Rabbi Aryeh Cohen – American Jewish University\nAziza Hasan – Executive Director\, NewGround\nAndrea Hodos – Associate Director\, NewGround\nRabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller – Director Emeritus\, UCLA Hillel\nRev. Dr. Najuma Smith – Word of Encouragement Community Church\nImam Dr. Jihad Turk – Bayan Islamic Graduate School\n\nModerated by Professor David Myers\, UCLA Distinguished Professor & Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History \nSessions taught by text experts\, spiritual leaders\, historians\, peace activists & students. \nSchedule: \n\n4:30-4:45: Introduction (Prof. David Myers and poetry reading by Rachel Burnett)\n4:45-5:05: Rabbi Sharon Brous\n5:05-5:25: Imam Dr. Jihad Turk\n5:25-5:45: Prof. Carol Bakhos\n5:45-5:55: Break\n5:55-6:15: Salam Al-Marayati\n6:15-6:20: breathing exercise (Sharon Zelnick)\n6:20-6:40: Prof. Rabbi Aryeh Cohen\n6:40-6:50: Break\n6:50-7:10: Rev. Dr. Najuma Smith\n7:10-7:30: Aziza Hasan and Andrea Hodos\n7:30-7:50: Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller\n\n(Light refreshments provided) \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion and the New Coalition for Peace in the Middle East.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/teach-in-for-peace-in-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:CSR
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SUMMARY:Shirdi Sai Baba's Presence: Mediums\, Mediations\, and Mobilities
DESCRIPTION:In-person and Zoom \nRegister here for both in-person or Zoom \nThe South Asian saint Shirdi Sai Baba has an ever-growing global diaspora. His inspiration and healing energies are boons reinforced for many by his defiance of religious communitarianism. In welcoming all castes\, creeds\, and nationalities\, Baba offers an alternative to the divisiveness of his time and ours. Although Baba left his body in 1918\, he is eternally present through two- and three-dimensional iconic images and figural sculptures that\, as his embodiments\, are found in innumerable temples\, home altars\, roadside and wayside shrines\, films\, websites\, and social media. Through a recently published volume\, Professors Srinivas and Roberts have explored the emergence of specific spaces\, practices\, selves\, presences\, and mobilities associated with Baba. Such presentations are often exegetical and are interesting unto themselves\, but they also offer opportunities to consider the dynamics of religious expression anywhere in the world. Haptic visualities\, spatial refabulations\, corporeal mobilities\, transmigrations\, universes of translation\, and positionalities in trans-Asian and Indian Ocean worlds are among theoretical perspectives addressed. An anthropology of credibility is espoused as Drs. Srinivas and Roberts seek to understand and\, to a degree\, participate in the truths lived by Baba and his devotees. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia \nAL Roberts in Tunis\, March 2023; photo by Amira Hassnaoui\nAllen F. Roberts is Distinguished Research Professor / Distinguished Professor Emeritus of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA and was trained in socio-cultural Anthropology (PhD 1980\, University of Chicago). He and his late spouse Mary “Polly” Nooter Roberts (d.2018)\, who was Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA and Consulting Curator for African Arts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, have undertaken research\, writing\, teaching\, and museum work together concerning arts and humanities of Africa and the Indian Ocean World. AL and Polly’s award-winning books and traveling exhibitions include Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History (1996) and A Saint in the City: Sufi Art of Urban Senegal (2003). Most recently and with Professor Smriti Srinivas of UC Davis\, AL has co-edited and contributed to Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint: Shirdi Sai Baba’s Presence (2023) as a volume dedicated to Polly Roberts’ memory. \nSmriti Srinivas is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Davis\, USA. She explores regimes of spatial\, somatic\, and symbolic production\, particularly in cities and Indian Ocean worlds. Her most recent books include Devotional Spaces of a Global Saint: Shirdi Sai Baba’s Presence (2022)\, coedited with Allen F. Roberts and Neelima Jeychandran; Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds (2020\, coedited); and A Place for Utopia: Urban Designs from South Asia (2015).
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/shirdi-sai-babas-presence-mediums-mediations-and-mobilities/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 306/Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T130000
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SUMMARY:Righting the American Dream
DESCRIPTION:Zoom or In-Person event \nClick here to register \nIn this book talk\, author Diane Winston explores how after two years in the White House\, an aging and increasingly unpopular Ronald Reagan looked like a one-term president\, but something changed in 1983. Reagan spoke of his embattled agenda as a spiritual rather than a political project and cast his vision for limited government and market economics as the natural outworking of religious conviction. \nIn a provocative new history of how the news media facilitated the Reagan Revolution and the rise of the religious Right\, Winston reveals how support for Reagan emerged from a new religious vision of American identity circulating in the popular press. The news media broadcast this message with enthusiasm\, and white evangelicals rallied to the president’s cause. With their support\, Reagan won reelection and continued to dismantle the welfare state\, unraveling a political consensus that stood for half a century. \nDiane Winston spent over a decade as a journalist and is now associate professor of journalism and Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the University of Southern California. She is the author or editor of several books\, including Religion in Los Angeles: Religious Activism\, Innovation\, and Diversity in the Global City. Her newest book\, Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision\, is available through University of Chicago Press. \nSmall bites and beverages will be provided. RSVP is required. Click here to register \nObtain a 30% discount on the book with promocode UCPNEW at the University of Chicago Press website.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/righting-the-american-dream/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:CSR
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SUMMARY:Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: David Reubeni's How-To Manual of Messianic Redemption
DESCRIPTION:In the 16th century\, a Hebrew-speaking\, battle-scarred\, Black-skinned Jew named David Reubeni appeared suddenly in Venice with a desperate plan to restore Jewish pride and political independence. Why did kings\, bishops\, rabbis\, bankers\, and even a pope\, open their homes and wallets for him? Some answers come from one of the weirdest documents in Jewish history\, Reubeni’s personal diary. Professor Alan Verskin will share insights from his book in this online event which is co-sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \n  \nRegister here for your Zoom link. \n  \nBio: Alan Verskin is Samuel J. Zacks Chair of Jewish History at the University of Toronto. Prior to that\, he taught for a decade at the University of Rhode Island. His areas of research include religious\, legal\, and social history in both Jewish and Islamic contexts\, from the middle ages through the nineteenth century. He is particularly interested in travel\, translation\, and the migration of ideas between religious communities. His most recent book is Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa\, the Middle East\, and Europe (Stanford University Press\, 2023).
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/diary-of-a-black-jewish-messiah-david-reubenis-how-to-manual-of-messianic-redemption/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Welcome Reception - Fall 2023
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to welcome in the new academic year\, see old friends and meet new people. \nClick here to let us know that you will be coming by October 5th. Thank you!
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/welcome-reception-fall-2023/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:CSR
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SUMMARY:From Enchanted to Re-enchanted:  Trajectories of Vietnamese Buddhism in a Post-modern World
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies. It is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion and the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. \nBuddhist modernity has often taken on the form of a secularized\, rationalist and democratic Buddhism that accentuates meditative techniques and a focus on psychology and salvation attained through individual endeavor. Non-rational\, devotional\, forms of Buddhism have\, at least rhetorically\, been painted as pre-modern\, backwards or superstition. Echoing the now debunked secularization theory of religion – that religion will diminish and be replaced by science – it has been assumed that the modernization of Buddhism would displace devotional forms of Buddhism with this rational and humanistic form of Buddhist modernism. This theory is now demonstrably proven false in many places\, but especially in Vietnam where there has been a resurgence of interest in devotional forms of Buddhism\, which focus on supernatural assistance in daily life and the potency of some monks to tell the future and alter fates (in essence\, the denying the secular division between the mundane and supernatural.) Professor Alexander Soucy (Saint Mary’s University)\, will posit that this is not a persistence nor resurgence of the pre-modern\, but instead needs to be understood as something new – as much owing to the structures and assumptions of modernity as to the power of the enchanted past. \nRegistration required. Click here. \nAlexander Soucy is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Saint Mary’s University (Halifax\, Canada). His first monograph\, The Buddha Side: Gender\, Power and Buddhist Practice in Vietnam (2012) is the only English-language ethnography of Vietnamese Buddhism. He has co-edited two volumes on Buddhism in Canada\, Wild Geese: Buddhism in Canada (2010) and Flowers on the Rock: Global and Local Buddhisms in Canada (2014)\, and a volume on Buddhism and globalization\, called Buddhism in the Global Eye: Beyond East and West. He has published a number of essays on Vietnamese Buddhism in Vietnam and in the West.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/from-enchanted-to-re-enchanted-trajectories-of-vietnamese-buddhism-in-a-post-modern-world/
LOCATION:Royce 243
CATEGORIES:CSR
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230603T140000
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SUMMARY:Different Roads\, One Goal: Gandhi and Jainism
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi\, one of the last century’s most revered figures\, has exerted enormous influence across the world. Gandhi was himself greatly influenced by Jainism\, an ancient religion whose practitioners\, many of whom live in Gandhi’s native state of Gujarat in north-western India\, are committed to minimizing harm to living beings. \nIn this symposium\, speakers will discuss connections between Gandhi and Jainism and parallels between Gandhian and Jain thought. \nSCHEDULE:\n2:00 – 2:45: Tara Sethia: “Gandhi\, Ahiṃsā and Jainism”\n2:45 – 3:30: Chris Chapple: “Jain and Gandhian Vows: Nonviolence\, Truth\, and Simplicity”\n3:30 – 3:45: Break\n3:45 – 4:30: Veena Howard: “Gandhi and his Practical Anekāntavāda for Sarvodaya”\n4:30 – 4:50: Response from Vinay Lal\n4:50 – 5:30: Concluding Discussion \nRSVP required for Zoom access. Click here \nSpeakers: \nChristopher Key Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.  He has published more than twenty books including Karma and Creativity (1986)\, Nonviolence to Animals\, Earth\, and Self in Asian Traditions (1993)\, Reconciling Yogas (2003)\, Yoga and the Luminous (2008)\, Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Elements in Hindu\, Buddhist\, and Jain Yogas (2020)\, and several edited volumes on religion and ecology.  He has received numerous grants for his research\, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Nehru Fellowship program. He serves on the advisory boards for the Forum on Religion and Ecology (Yale)\, the Ahimsa Center (Pomona)\, the Jaina Studies Centre (London)\, the Dharma Academy of North America (Berkeley)\, the Uberoi Foundation (Denver)\, the South Asia Studies Association (Los Angeles)\, the Center for Religions and Spirituality (LMU)\, and the International School for Jain Studies (Delhi). \n  \n  \nVeena R. Howard\, Ph.D.\, is Professor of Asian Religious Traditions in the Department of Philosophy at California State University\, Fresno She also holds the Endowed Chair in Jain and Hindu Dharma. She was recently appointed as the director of the M.K. Gandhi Center: Inner Peace and Sarvodaya. Her publications include the books\, Gandhi’s Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Moral Challenges (Lexington\, 2023); The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender (ed.)\, (Bloomsbury\, 2019); Dharma\, Hindu\, Jain\, Buddhist\, and Sikh Traditions of India (ed.) (IB Tauris\, 2017); and Gandhi’s Ascetic Activism: Renunciation and Social Action (SUNY Press\, 2013). She has also authored numerous peer-reviewed articles including\, “The Nonviolence Conundrum: Political Peace and Personal Karma in Jain and Hindu Traditions” (Religions\, 2023); “Oxford Bibliography Article: Mohandas K. Gandhi” (Oxford University Press\, 2019); “Divine Light and Melodies Lead the Way: The Santmat Tradition of Bihar”(Religions\, 2019); “The modern monastic Santmat movement of Bihar: building bridges between Sanātana Dharma and Sant-Mat (International Journal of Dharma Studies\, 2017);  “Lessons from ‘The Hawk and the Dove’: Reflections on the Mahabharata’s Animal Parables and Ethical Predicaments” (Sophia International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions\, 2016)\,  “Rethinking Gandhi’s Celibacy:  Ascetic Power and the Empowerment of Women” (The Journal of the American Academy of Religion\, 2013)\, She has also translated three books from the modern Sant tradition from Hindi into English. She has served on the Board of Trustees of the Parliament of the World’s Religions. \n  \nTara Sethia is the founder of Ahimsa Center for the Study of Nonviolence in Thought and Action at California State Polytechnic University\, Pomona where she held the inaugural the Shri Shantinath Endowed Chair in Ahimsa Studies. As Center-Director for nearly two decades she created an interdisciplinary Minor in Nonviolence Studies; directed summer institutes for K-12 educators; and hosted conferences\, lectures\, dialogues\, and workshops on nonviolence. Her publications include the following books: Gandhi: Pioneer of Nonviolent Social Change\, Living Gandhi\, and Ahimsa\, Anekanta and Jainism.  She teaches courses on India\, South Asia\, and Nonviolence and Social Change. Dr. Sethia is a recipient of many honors\, awards\, and grants\, and has been featured in the media\, including the Los Angeles Times. She received her Ph.D. in History from UCLA. Currently\, she is emerita professor of History. \n\nDiscussant: \nVinay Lal is a writer\, blogger\, cultural critic\, and Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA). He earned his BA and MA\, both in 1982\, from The Johns Hopkins University with concentration in literature\, history\, and philosophy\, and a PhD with Distinction from the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago in 1992.  He writes widely on Indian history\, historiography\, the Indian diaspora\, colonialism\, the architecture of nonviolence\, Gandhi\, American politics\, contemporary culture\, and the global politics of knowledge systems.  His 20 books include the two-volume Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City (2013); The Future of Knowledge and Culture:  A Dictionary for the Twenty-first Century\, co-edited with Ashis Nandy (Viking Penguin\, 2005); Of Cricket\, Guinness and Gandhi:  Essays on Indian History and Culture (Penguin\, 2005); The History of History:  Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (Oxford\, 2003); Empire of Knowledge:  Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (Pluto Press\, 2002); India and Civilizational Futures:  Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics II (Oxford\, 2019); The Fury of Covid-19:  The Passions\, Histories\, and Unrequited Love of the Coronavirus (Pan Macmillan\, 2020); and\, most recently\, Insurgency and the Artist:  The Art of the Freedom Struggle in India (Roli Books\, 2022).  Two volumes of his collected papers on Gandhi are scheduled for publication in early 2024.  He blogs at abplive.in and maintains an extensive academic YouTube channel with over 300 lectures at youtube.com/user/dillichalo with nearly 33\,000 subscribers and 2.5 million views.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/different-roads-one-goal-gandhi-and-jainism/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:CSR
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T170000
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SUMMARY:Ethics in Paul and Paul in Ethics
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis talk looks at a few examples of Paul’s ethical reasoning and then discusses how his ethical discourse compares with those of several types current today. \nRSVP required for Zoom access. Click here \n  \nAdela Yarbro Collins is the current president of the Society for Biblical Literature and an American author and academic who has served as the Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. Her research focuses on the New Testament\, especially the Gospel of Mark and the Book of Revelation\, and she has also written on early Christian apocalypticism and eschatology. Collins has also served as the President of the Society of New Testament Studies (2010–2011) and as the President of the New England Region of the Society of Biblical Literature (2004–2005). \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/ethics-in-paul-and-paul-in-ethics/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CSR
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230509T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230509T130000
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SUMMARY:Mark of Contradictions: The Creation of Judah's History and the Case of Samson
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn biblical texts\, we find preserved the “mark of contradictions\, fragmentations\, and adjunctions\,” as intellectual historian Michel de Certeau once wrote (The Writing of History 1988: 313). This talk will explore the mark of contradictions in what may seem a peripheral set of texts within the broader biblical narrative\, the Samson stories of Judges 13-16. Buried in the book of Judges\, these quirky stories have consistently baffled scholars: where do they come from\, why were they preserved\, and what role do they serve? In the talk\, Mahri Leonard-Fleckman will trace shifting portrayals of Samson through different biblical witnesses and rewritings through the first century C.E. to demonstrate how Samson preserves an important mark of contradictions as he is drawn into the fabric of Judah’s history. In doing so\, her broader aim is to probe the relationship between fluidity and fixity in scribal production\, history writing\, and tradition itself. Moderated by William Schniedewind (UCLA). \nRSVP here \n  \nMahri Leonard-Fleckman is an assistant professor of Hebrew Bible in the Religious Studies Department at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester\, MA. She specializes in Iron Age history and the composition history of the Hebrew Bible\, and is the author of The House of David: Between Political Formation and Literary Revision (Fortress Press\, 2016) and co-author of The Book of Ruth in the Wisdom Commentary Series (Liturgical Press\, 2017). Her current book project\, provisionally titled Scribal Representations and Social Landscapes of the Iron Age Shephelah\, focuses on scribal representations of the “Other” in ancient Israel in relation to broader questions of identity in the Iron Age Levant\, and is under contract with Oxford University Press. Leonard-Fleckman has published numerous scholarly and public-facing books and articles\, is currently the Catholic Biblical Quarterly Book Review Editor for the Old Testament and Qumran\, and is active on numerous other editorial boards and professional committees. \n  \n  \nCo-sponsored with the lead sponsor UCLA Alan D Leve Center for Jewish Studies as part of their Bible and the Ancient Near East series\, in addition to and the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/mark-of-contradictions-the-creation-of-judahs-history-and-the-case-of-samson/
LOCATION:290 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:CSR
ORGANIZER;CN="Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230508T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230508T170000
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SUMMARY:The Mothers\, the Mamzers\, and the Rabbis: Reconstructing Family and Community in Post-Holocaust Jewish Law
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis talk centers on the little-known story of the children of illicit unions that resulted from a highly unusual situation in post-Holocaust Munkacz\, a SubCarpathian town that had been a major Jewish center before World War II. A number of women who returned to Munkacz in 1945 believed their husbands had perished in the camps\, remarried\, had children\, and then saw their first husbands return. In 1965\, two major Eastern European Orthodox rabbis tried to find solutions to keep the children of these children from also being considered Mamzerim\, children of misbegotten unions who are considered outcasts in the Jewish community. In texts that at first glance appear highly formalistic and technical\, these Jewish legal decisors tackled many of the central dilemmas of postwar European Jewry\, and are thus illuminated by contemporary writings of policymakers\, international relief agencies\, novelists\, and historians. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. \n  \nEthan B. Katz is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California-Berkeley\, where he has taught since the fall of 2018. He is an affiliate faculty of the Center for Middle East Studies\, the Institute of European Studies\, and the Center for the Study of Religion. Dr. Katz also serves as the Chair of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Jewish Life and Campus Climate. Since the spring of 2019\, he has been the co-founder and co-director of the Antisemitism Education Initiative at Berkeley\, an effort that has received national attention and funding. \nRSVP required for Zoom access. Click here
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/the-mothers-the-mamzers-and-the-rabbis-reconstructing-family-and-community-in-post-holocaust-jewish-law/
LOCATION:Haines 39/Zoom
CATEGORIES:CSR
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T170000
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SUMMARY:Lost Books: The Forgetfulness of Writing and the Forgetting of Jewish Pasts
DESCRIPTION:  \nIt is often noted how the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls transformed our understanding of ancient Judaism\, radically expanding our evidence for Jews and Judaism prior to the rise of Christianity. Yet this material also stands as a striking reminder of how much of the literary heritage of Jewish antiquity has been lost to us. How and why was this material lost to the Jewish tradition\, and what might its forgetting tell us about Jewish memory-making\, past and present? This lecture explores these questions with a focus on lost books\, real and imagined\, and the shifting meanings of writing within Jewish cultural history. \nRSVP here \n  \nAnnette Yoshiko Reed is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. She studies ancient Jews and Christians\, with a focus on questions of knowledge\, identity\, and difference. Her recent books include Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism and Christianity​ (2018 and Demons\, Angels\, and Writing in Ancient Judaism (2020). She is currently working on a book on the cultural power of forgetting\, focusing on the Jewish reception of the Second Temple past. \nThursday\, May 4\, 2023 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM \nAnnette Yoshiko Reed (Harvard University)\nModerator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA)\nLost Books: The Forgetfulness of Writing and the Forgetting of Jewish Pasts\nEtta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored with lead sponsor UCLA Alan D Leve Center for Jewish Studies’ Etta and Milton Leve Scholar in Residence.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/lost-books-the-forgetfulness-of-writing-and-the-forgetting-of-jewish-pasts/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:CSR
ORGANIZER;CN="Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230502T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230502T150000
DTSTAMP:20230406T182247Z
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SUMMARY:Ancient Judaism between Christian Memory and Jewish Forgetting
DESCRIPTION:  \nDrawing on her in-progress book project on Forgetting\, this seminar will explore the place of memory and forgetting in the reception of Second Temple Judaism\, revisiting the supposed Rabbinic retreat from “history” after the Roman destruction of the Temple in 70 CE and exploring Christian and Jewish contestation over pre-70 Jewish pasts\, from antiquity to the present. \nRSVP here \n  \nAnnette Yoshiko Reed is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. She studies ancient Jews and Christians\, with a focus on questions of knowledge\, identity\, and difference. Her recent books include Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism and Christianity​ (2018 and Demons\, Angels\, and Writing in Ancient Judaism (2020). She is currently working on a book on the cultural power of forgetting\, focusing on the Jewish reception of the Second Temple past. \nTuesday\, May 2\, 2023 • 314 Royce • 2 PM \nAnnette Yoshiko Reed (Harvard University)\nModerator: Catherine Bonesho (UCLA)\nAncient Judaism between Christian Memory and Jewish Forgetting\nEtta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored with lead sponsor UCLA Alan D Leve Center for Jewish Studies’ Etta and Milton Leve Scholar in Residence.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/ancient-judaism-between-christian-memory-and-jewish-forgetting/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 314
CATEGORIES:CSR
ORGANIZER;CN="Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T170000
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SUMMARY:How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple
DESCRIPTION:With the exception of the cross\, the apple—as the forbidden fruit—may be the most widely-recognized biblical image. Yet the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew original does not name the species of fruit that caused the Fall of Man\, nor do any of its many translations. While early Christian and rabbinic commentators identify various species as the forbidden fruit—the fig\, the grape\, the citron—they never include the apple. How\, then\, did the forbidden fruit come to be identified as the apple? Examining the history of biblical translation and of the artistic representation of the Fall of Man\, the presentation offers a new explanation for the emergence of the apple as a symbol of temptation and forbidden knowledge. \nRSVP required for Zoom access. Click here \n  \nAzzan Yadin-Israel is professor of Jewish studies and classics at Rutgers University. He is the author of several books\, including Scripture and Tradition: Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash and The Grace of God and the Grace of Man: The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art History and CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/how-the-forbidden-fruit-became-an-apple/
LOCATION:Haines 39/Zoom
CATEGORIES:CSR
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230427T133000
DTSTAMP:20230417T164416Z
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SUMMARY:History and Ideology: Is There A Second Temple Judaism?
DESCRIPTION:Periodization is a critical tool for historians\, but it is also practice fraught with difficulty. As scholars have come to recognize\, the division of historical narratives into broad analytic rubrics is anchored in the ideological commitments—often implicit and unrecognized—of their authors. A great deal of work has been devoted to examining these questions as they pertain to the assumptions informing modern history\, particularly in the fields such as colonial history and women’s history. And while the issue has received less attention among scholars of the ancient world\, it is no less pressing. This talk will address the broader theoretical question of periodization itself\, and provide a detailed discussion of one example—the assumption that there is a Second Temple period.  \n  \nAzzan Yadin-Israel is professor of Jewish studies and classics at Rutgers University. He is the author of several books\, including Scripture and Tradition: Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash and The Grace of God and the Grace of Man: The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen. \nJoining us in-person? Registration is required in order to have lunch. Click here \nRegister here for Zoom link \nThis talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/history-and-ideology-is-there-a-second-temple-judaism/
LOCATION:Haines 39/Zoom
CATEGORIES:CSR
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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:20230314T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230314T140000
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SUMMARY:Mark of Contradictions: The Creation of Judah's History and the Case of Samson (Bible and the Ancient World series)
DESCRIPTION:[gravityform id=”140″ title=”false” description=”true”]\nPresented by: Professor Mahri Leonard-Fleckman of College of the Holy Cross \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/mark-of-contradictions-the-creation-of-judahs-history-and-the-case-of-samson-bible-and-the-ancient-world-series/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T160000
DTSTAMP:20230303T172242Z
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SUMMARY:Where Was Adam Buried? Textual Communities and the Changing Location of a Sacred Site
DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/95410494359 \n\n  \nBecause neither the Hebrew Bible\, New Testament\, nor Qur’ān specify the place of Adam’s burial\, its location became an object of contention over the ages among Jews\, Christians\, and Muslims. The oldest Jewish traditions locate Adam’s tomb in the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron\, thereby associating Adam with the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs buried there (Abraham and Sarah\, Isaac and Rebecca\, and Jacob and Leah). Early Christians debated whether Adam was buried in Hebron or in Jerusalem\, where his burial was associated with the passion and redemption of Jesus Christ. Later\, Muslims entered into the debate\, sometimes arguing for Hebron or Jerusalem\, and other times for specifically Muslim traditions that locate Adam’s burial in Mecca\, Najaf (in Iraq)\, or Sri Lanka. What was at stake in these contests was the religious symbolism and meaning of the final resting place of the ancestor of all of humanity\, but more often than not the debate was shaped by pragmatic concerns having to do with political power\, ecclesiastical rivalries\, and economic gain\, whose forms often reveal the early history of pilgrimage and religious tourism. \n\n  \n\n\nFred Astren is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. His current work encompasses Jewish history—in both the East and West—in the years 500–950. Forthcoming is a journal article on the failure of Visigothic anti-Jewish legislation in Spain\, and a book chapter on the impact of ninth century Muslim Arabic book culture on Jewish sectarianism. He is currently working on a book chapter on Iranian contexts of the eighth-century Jewish messianic figure\, Abū ʿĪsā al- Isfahānī. Recent publications include a journal article that examines ways that minority and majority groups “co- produce” historical narratives in medieval Islam and a chapter in the Cambridge History of Judaism on medieval non-rabbinic Judaisms other than Karaism. Astren is the author of Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding (University of South Carolina Press\, 2004)\, and co-editor of Judaism and Islam: Boundaries\, Interaction\, and Communication (Brill\, 2000). Astren serves on the Advisory Board of the Mediterranean Seminar. \n\n[gravityform id=”139″ title=”false” description=”true”]Presented by: Professor Fred Astren of San Francisco State University
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/where-was-adam-buried-textual-communities-and-the-changing-location-of-a-sacred-site/
LOCATION:Online on Zoom
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230228T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230228T140000
DTSTAMP:20221129T182859Z
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SUMMARY:“Abba has begun to make money from the beer business”:  Beer\, Business\, and Halakhah in Rabbinic Literature (Bible and the Ancient World series)
DESCRIPTION:[gravityform id=”138″ title=”false” description=”true”]\nPresented by: Professor Jordan D. Rosenblum of the University of Wisconsin-Madison \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/abba-has-begun-to-make-money-from-the-beer-business-beer-business-and-halakhah-in-rabbinic-literature/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T160000
DTSTAMP:20230203T174309Z
CREATED:20221117T193522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T174309Z
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SUMMARY:A Royal Osirian Funerary Rite? The Awakening of Osiris Ritual in Tutankhamun’s Tomb
DESCRIPTION:  \nOver 100 years after its discovery\, the tomb of Tutankhamun continues to be the focus of numerous Egyptological studies and scholarly research. Due to Howard Carter’s meticulous documentation of the tomb\, it’s possible to continue to “excavate” the tomb and make new discoveries about ancient Egyptian religious beliefs\, kingship ideology\, and funerary practices\, including a new interpretation of the layout of the Burial Chamber as related to the Awakening of Osiris Ritual. \nThe earliest depiction of the Awakening of Osiris Ritual comes from the 19th Dynasty\, which represents the reanimation of Osiris by his son Horus in the presence of various deities connected to the Osirian myth. In the scene\, the mummiform figure of Osiris lays prone and enshrined upon a lion bed\, surrounded by various crowns\, weapons\, clothing\, and other emblems. It is here argued that Tutankhamun’s Burial Chamber is a physical manifestation of this ritual\, which is not only represented in image and text\, but also by objects and even the body of Tutankhamun himself. The author proposes a number of hypotheses for why this ritual physically manifested itself within Tutankhamun’s burial\, and how this analysis provides us with more information on royal funerary practice during the New Kingdom. \n  \nNick Brown is an American Egyptologist who has worked as an archaeologist in Egypt since 2011. He received his MA degree in Egyptology from the American University in Cairo in 2016\, and currently is an Egyptology PhD candidate at the UCLA. Currently he lives between Los Angeles\, CA and Cairo\, Egypt. His excavation experience includes working with archaeological sites in Aswan (at Elephantine Island and Wadi el-Hudi)\, as well as funerary sites in Luxor\, Amarna and the Sudan. In 2016\, Nicholas spent the summer working at the MFA\, Boston as the Terrace Curatorial Research Associate in Egyptology. He returned to the MFA over the summer of 2019 to conduct archival research for the Egyptian Art Department’s exhibit “Ancient Nubia Now.” Nicholas’s research interests include funerary material culture from the New Kingdom\, as well as the use and perception of ancient Egypt within modern contexts. \n[gravityform id=”136″ title=”false” description=”true”] Presented by: Nick Brown (NELC UCLA)
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/a-royal-osirian-funerary-rite-the-awakening-of-osiris-ritual-in-tutankhamuns-tomb/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:Grupo Madera: 20th Century Afro-Venezuelan Religiosity\, Rhythms\, and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:  \nGrupo Madera (Wood Group) was founded in 1977 in San Agustín del Sur – an Afro-Venezuelan working-class barrio – by Afro-Venezuelan youth committed to Third World liberation struggles\, global Pan-Africanism\, and Black consciousness. As a traditional Afro-Venezuelan musical ensemble and community organization\, Grupo Madera responded to the people’s calls for economic justice and political participation during an era of U.S. backed government repression in Venezuela. On August 15\, 1980\, while en route to an event with Indigenous communities in the Amazonas region\, 11 of the founding members drowned in the Orinoco River. Survivors and social movements consider the tragedy one of the most egregious and vile acts of state violence against Afro-Venezuelan popular masses in contemporary history. In the aftermath of their death\, several remaining members of Grupo Madera (1977 – 1980)\, along with other artists\, activists\, relatives\, and communities\, swore an oath to continue the founders’ legacy and have done so for 42 years. Join us to learn more about Grupo Madera and the role of culture\, religion\, and arts in people’s struggles in 20th century Venezuela. \n  \n\n\n\nJeanette Charles is a proud daughter of the Haitian Diaspora raised by working-class Black and Brown Los Angeles. She is pursuing her PhD in History at the University of California\, Los Angeles (MA ‘19). Her research focuses on Black Radicalism\, popular religiosity\, and political economy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to this\, she studied at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela\, with the Cátedra Libre África\, a research institute focused on Afro-Venezuelan\, African diasporic\, and African continental histories. She is also a long-time international solidarity organizer\, language interpreter\, and independent journalist. \n\n[gravityform id=”141″ title=”false” description=”true”]\nPresented by: Jeanette Charles\, UCLA
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/grupo-madera-20th-century-afro-venezuelan-religiosity-rhythms-and-resistance/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
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SUMMARY:At the Origins of Monotheism: A Socio-economic Confrontation in Ancient Syro Mesoptamia
DESCRIPTION:  \nWhat is known as monotheism may be seen\, in it earliest manifestation\, in the light of an epistemic confrontation of the biblical tradition with the system of knowledge that had developed in the great cities of Mesopotamia. The paper presents a view that is at variance with the communis opinio\, both in terms of the nature of the confrontation and of its historical setting.  \nAs for the nature of the confrontation\, I consider the notion of fate as being more central to Syro-Mesopotamian religion than normally acknowledged. Polytheism was a major intellectual feat in its attempt at breaking down the absolute into component parts\, i.e.\, the deities that represent diverse elements of the world of nature. Fate had remained untouched by this process\, and in this regard it may be seen as a form of monotheism ante litteram. \nAs for the historical setting\, I consider the patriarchal tradition as encasing the epic memory of a Syro-Mesopotamian splinter group that detached itself from the land of the four banks at a time of de-urbanization in the middle Euphrates\, and in the process lost its contacts with the organized systems of cult and divination and brought new life to the notion of fate now seen as a living absolute. \nThis presentation comes at a point in the course when one looks at the founding figures\, and in particular Abraham. My approach puts the biblical patriarchal tradition in a different and very unconventional light\, drawing not only on the biblical text and on historical records\, but also on archaeology and ethnography. \n  \n\nGiorgio Buccellati is a Research Professor in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA\, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and in the Department of History at UCLA. He founded the Institute of Archaeology at UCLA\, of which he served as first director from 1973 until 1983 and where he is now Director of the Mesopotamian Lab. He is currently Director of IIMAS – The International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies and of AVASA – Associazione per la Valorizzazione dell’Archeologia e della Storia Antica.  \nHis research interests include the ancient languages\, the literature\, the religion\, the archaeology and the history of Mesopotamia\, as well as the theory of archaeology. His publications include site reports\, text editions\, linguistic and literary studies as well as on archaeological theory\, historical monographs and essays on philosophy and spirituality. In his field work\, he has developed new approaches to the preservation and presentation of archaeological sites and to community archaeology. With his wife Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati\, he has worked for many years in the Near East\, especially in Syria\, Iraq and Turkey. They are at present co-directors of the archaeological expedition to Tell Mozan/Urkesh in North-Eastern Syria. \n  \n[gravityform id=”142″ title=”false” description=”true”]\nPresented by: Giorgio Buccellati\, UCLA
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/at-the-origins-of-monotheism-a-socio-economic-confrontation-in-ancient-syro-mesoptamia-2/
LOCATION:Bunche Hall 2209A\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:Mothers and Rituals of Child-Naming in Ancient Israel (Bible and the Ancient World series)
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Professor Susan Ackerman of Dartmouth University. \nThis event will be recorded with no live audience and shared with community after. \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/mothers-and-rituals-of-child-naming-in-ancient-israel-bible-and-the-ancient-world-series/
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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SUMMARY:At the Origins of Monotheism: A Socio-economic Confrontation in Ancient Syro Mesoptamia
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Professor Giorgio Buccellati of UCLA’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. \nDate/Time/Loc TBD
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/at-the-origins-of-monotheism-a-socio-economic-confrontation-in-ancient-syro-mesoptamia/
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the Study of Religion":MAILTO:csr@humnet.ucla.edu
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