Events
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The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Prophetic Visions of Blackness
Haines 279A talk by Dr. Roger Sneed: Afrofuturism as a way of Black people expressing their identity through speculative fictions is fairly new, and yet it is not new. We can...
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CHESUCRISTO: The Fusion in Image and Word of Che Guevara and Jesus Christ
Kaplan 365After his death, Che Guevara became an icon and was even compared to Jesus Christ. Many images, poems, plays, and films bear witness to this remarkable process, which made studious...
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The Seventeenth Century Judeo-Persian Adaptation of the Buddha Biographies
Royce 306Elisha ben Shemuel’s Shahzadeh va-Sufi or The Prince and The Sufi is a seventeenth century Judeo-Persian adaptation of the life of Buddha, known in the west as the story of...
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On the Soul
Royce 306This discussion of the soul departs from the concept of the soul that for thousands of years has occupied the attention of philosophers and theologians and pervaded religious discourse. Morris...
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Between Bible and Qur’an
Royce Hall, Rm 314The Qur’an draws on three major earlier traditions, those of Judaism, Christianity tradition, and pre-Islamic paganism, and while the Qur’an presents itself as a continuation and confirmation of the Torah...
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Shout to the Lord: Making Worship Music in the Evangelical America
Royce 306How do people make worship music? What does it take to turn songs into worship and to turn worship into songs? This deep study of more than 75 leaders in...
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Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack
Powell LibraryIn this talk “Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack”, Professor Judah Cohen of Indiana University explores the very creation of what we know today as “Jewish...
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Trialogue: Beyond the Boundary Conceptual Models of the (Religious) Stranger in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Royce 306This panel discussion is open to members of the UCLA and Los Angeles communities who are interested in exploring a key issue of concern in contemporary religious and cultural studies....
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2019-20 Calendar of Events
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Symposium: “On the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational Perspectives”
Charles E. Young Research Library and Royce HallOrganized by the UCLA Department of African American Studies Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion A Symposium featuring Keynote Speaker Gloria Wekker, Professor Emerita at Utrecht University,...