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 music.” There were no professional cantors in synagogues in early America. Choirs were non-existent. Synagogue practice mirrored that in European synagogues. But all that changed...
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. The forum also is the culmination of the upper-division seminar course Religion 120. The course is designed to introduce students from a broad spectrum of...
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,...
Fall 2019 Welcome Reception
Royce Hall, Rm 306You are cordially invited to attend the Center for the Study of Religion Fall 2019 Welcome Reception. We look forward to seeing you there! Event Flyer RSVP Below: ...
Secular Rituals: How Nonreligious People Make Religion Less Religious
Royce 306As more Americans become nonreligious, life-cycle rituals and other ceremonies that religious experts once performed are increasingly the responsibility of everyday people and ritual experts for hire. Very secular people...
The Báb, Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi (1819 – 1850): His Life, Writings, and Religion
UCLA Faculty CenterSchedule: 8am-9am: Light breakfast 9am-12:30pm: Morning Session: The Movement of the Báb Welcome by Dr. Simon Joseph (UCLA) Moderated by Dr. Nahid Pirnazar (UCLA) Performance by Dr. Manouchehr Sadeghi Introduced...
Book Talk: Blackbird Blues
Kaplan 365CHICAGO, Illinois – The height of the Civil Rights era merges with the hauntingly beautiful swinging sounds of Chicago jazz in award-winning reporter and psychologist Jean K. Carney’s debut novel,...
Prayer Books from Medieval Byzantium: New Evidence for Religion and Society
Young Research Library Room 11348Byzantine prayer books (euchologia) contain—in addition to the eucharistic and other sacramental liturgies— a vast number of short prayers pronounced by the clergy on particular occasions in the life of...
Muhammad’s Treaty Guaranteeing Equal Rights for Jews Under Islamic Rule
Royce 306According to classic Islamic law and historical memory, Jews and Christians living under Muslim rule are governed according to a set of rules authorized by the great `Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb,...