Events
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The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution
Bunche Hall 10383Muslim charities and community organizations have assumed a significant role in refugee support since the Syrian catastrophe: in Jordan and Canada, as elsewhere, they deliver food aid, house orphans, and...
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Music and Religion in Popular Culture: The Case of Orthodox Jews and Christian Contemporary Music
Kaplan 365Since the 1960s religious practitioners have created their own music to express their beliefs and values to shield the community from popular culture. The Irony is they use the popular...
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Gods and the Abyss: Encountering Oceanic Agency at the Edge of the Ancient World
Kaplan 365This presentation examines how coastal communities in antiquity conceived of the sea not merely as a physical environment, but as a powerful, living force endowed with agency. Such perceptions became...
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(De)medicalization and the Dying Body: Sallekhanā, Kinship, and the Limits of Liberal Bioethics
Royce Hall 306In this talk, Miki Chase (U of Wisconsin-Madison) explores how trajectories of illness and care, such as terminal cancer or anticipated cognitive decline, are reinterpreted through Jain doctrinal frameworks in...
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Study of Religion Welcome Reception
Royce Hall 306Lift a glass to the new academic year and meet friends old and new! Welcome remarks by Dean Stern and Professor Bakhos at 4:30p. RSVP required by October 11. See...
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The Paradox of Pointless Suffering
Royce Hall 306Why do we suffer? Why do people die young? Is there any point to our excessive pain, physical or emotional? This talk explores the ways that we have tried to...
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D. T. Suzuki: Letters, Lectures and Legacies
Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, United StatesThis Workshop explores the cultural, religious, and intellectual legacy of Daisetsu Teitaro (D. T.) Suzuki (1870–1966), the preeminent figure who introduced Zen and Mahayana Buddhism to the modern Western world....
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Upheavals of Faith: Deconversion, Value Conflict, and Grief
Kaplan 365Why do people grieve a faith they have chosen to leave? If they no longer believe, what exactly have they lost? Ultimately, leaving a religion is rarely the simple loss...
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Idol Talk: False Worship in the Early Christian World
314 Royce HallAre idols real? Do gods or demons dwell in them or around them? Or are they empty, devoid of existence except in the mind of the idolater? Ancient Christians and...
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Third Annual Pan-UC Religious Studies Conference
314 Royce HallCall for Participation UCLA’s Center for the Study of Religion is pleased to announce plans for convening the Third Annual Pan-UC Religious Studies Conference on our campus on Friday,...