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SUMMARY:How Much Did Paul of Tarsus Know About the Historical Jesus\, and How and When Did He Know It?
DESCRIPTION:Why did early Christians conclude that four distinct narratives about Jesus and Nazareth and the letters of Paul of Tarsus belonged together in their authoritative Scripture?What do these diverse writings have in common apart from the name “Jesus”? Many prominent 20th century New Testament scholars ignored this question while they fo­cused on contending that Paul had no personal knowledge about the historical Jesus’ teaching and actions\, was totally reliant on hearsay\, then distorted what he heard\, be­trayed Jesus’ intentions\, and became the “first founder of Christianity.” In this lecture I draw on what I have learned from cross-cultural anthropologists and neuroscientists to challenge this view. In sharp contrast\, I seek to show convincingly the many\, strong lines of continuity between Jesus and the transformed Paul\, especially in the radically transformed changes in attitude and behavior each of them sought to generate in their followers. \nS. Scott Bartchy PhD is Emeritus Professor of Christian Origins and History of Religion in UCLA’s Dept. of History. He earned his Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School and his Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from Harvard University. He co-founded UCLA’s Center for the Study of Religion in 1995 and served as its director for fourteen years. He came to UCLA after teaching New Testament Studies at the University of Tuebingen\, Germany\, for nine years. He is internationally known for his schol­arship on ancient slavery and gender issues in early Christianity. \nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”15″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/much-paul-tarsus-know-bout-historical-jesus-know/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T160000
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SUMMARY:Pastries with Professors
DESCRIPTION:Students come and learn more about the majors/minor for The Study of Religion! Come mingle with other current students and faculty members within the department. \nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”18″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/pastries-with-professors/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T120000
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SUMMARY:Healing with Joy: Recovering Medicine as a Moral Art in Uganda
DESCRIPTION:What might it mean to recover medicine as a moral art – medicine and health as something beyond a physical\, empirical practice? Drawing heavily on my fieldwork of CURE Children’s Hospital of Uganda\, a pediatric neurosurgical site that pioneered a revolutionary treatment of hydrocephalus\, we’ll explore an integrative healing approach based on their specific practical theology of health and human flourishing and its implementation in their infrastructure\, practices\, and habits\, with particular emphasis on the dialectic of physical and spiritual healing – most notably\, intimate prayer and cutting-edge brain surgery. We will also consider the centrality of joy and suffering as a dyad forming theological underpinnings to human flourishing\, and human flourishing so conceived as a candidate for the ultimate goal of medicine\, as well as discuss challenges of articulating any substantive moral end in empirically driven practices like medicine in secular democratic societies. \n  \n\nRyan Gillespie\, PhD\, is a Lecturer in the Study of Religion Program at UCLA. Broadly\, he is interested in how we talk about what we value\, more specifically intersections of morality & religion\, bioethics\, and the public sphere\, with subinterests in political economy and rhetorics of science. His work has appeared in Philosophy & Rhetoric\, Journal of Medical Humanities\, Quarterly Journal of Speech\, the Journal of Cultural Economy\, International Journal of Communication\, and Communication\, Culture & Critique\, as well as numerous edited book volumes. His current research project\, funded in part by the Templeton Foundation and the Yale Center for Faith and Culture\, asks what a recovery of medicine as a moral art might mean in contemporary practice\, and this talk includes a case study from that project. \nLight lunch will be provided \nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”16″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/healing-joy-recovering-medicine-moral-art-uganda/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171109T160000
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SUMMARY:Multi-Faith Forum
DESCRIPTION:The Multi-Faith Forum is back! Please join us on Thursday November 9th from 4-5:30 pm to meet our new Religious Diversity Education coordinator Mary Katherine Sheena who will be facilitating the group this year. If you are interested in being part of the forum please come and share your ideas and interests with Mary Katherine.  \nCome for the cookies and stay for the conversation! \nAbout the forum: The Multi-Faith Forum was established in 2014 in order to address the needs of students who want to engage topics related to faith\, religion\, religious identity and spirituality\, and who are interested in learning about religious traditions outside the classroom setting. \nStudents of all backgrounds are welcome to attend!   \n[gravityform id=”24″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/multi-faith-forum/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg\, Rm 365
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171114T120000
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SUMMARY:Women in the Hands of Men: Rabbinic Interpretations of the Four Matriarchs
DESCRIPTION:It’s not surprising that many of the familiar Hebrew Bible tales concerning the four Matriarchs portray them very favorably.  However\, the Book of Genesis also relates some episodes about these women that seem to imply mixed or even negative judgments about particular aspects of their moral characters.  We’ll examine how the contributions of classical rabbinic commentary create balance and nuance for our understanding of the Matriarchs’ characters—in particular\, through some imaginative and often surprising stories in the midrashic literature that read against the grain of Torah in order to counter the positive or negative implications of the biblical text. \n\nJerry Rabow\, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School\, retired from the practice of law in 1996 to focus on studying\, teaching\, and writing.  He has taught many adult education programs for synagogues\, universities\, book groups\, and other Jewish\, legal\, and general community organizations\, including lecturing extensively about topics related to his books.  He continues to be active as a member and lay leader of Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue in Encino\, and he currently serves as a public member of the Institutional Review Board for Human Subject Research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.  His writings include: Many professional articles on probate\, estate planning\, and taxation; various inspirational poetry\, prayers\, and essays privately published by religious\, literary\, and charitable organizations; A Guide to Jewish Mourning and Condolence\, a nationally distributed booklet now available to the public at www.vbs.org; 50 Jewish Messiahs (Gefen Publishing House)\, telling the life stories of the major Jewish messiah figures since Jesus\, and their impact upon the Christian\, Muslim\, and secular worlds of their time; and The Lost Matriarch: Finding Leah in the Bible and Midrash (Jewish Publication Society)\, which uses classical Midrash and personal commentary to uncover the hidden story of Leah\, perhaps our most important but most neglected biblical Matriarch. \n\nEvent Flyer\n\nLight lunch will be provided\n\nCo-sponsored by: UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\n\n\n\nPlease RSVP for Event\n\n [gravityform id=”19″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/women-hands-men-rabbinic-interpretations-four-matriarchs/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, Rm 306
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SUMMARY:How Ancient Israel Began: A New Archaeological Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Over the last hundred years or so\, a number of theories have been proposed to explain the origins of ancient Israel. All these have been informed to some degree by the biblical text and all have considered the role of New Kingdom Egypt and the collapse of empires throughout the Near East circa 1200-1100 BCE. The lecture will present a radical new proposal: that Egypt itself instigated “Israelite” settlement. \n\n\nAbout the Speaker: David llan is the director of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. He has excavated at Tel Arad\, Tel Megiddo\, and Tel Dan. He teaches at Hebrew Union College and has taught at Tel Aviv University\, Hebrew University\, and at Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in mortuary archaeology\, religion\, and ritual in the Chalcolithic period\, the Middle Bronze Age and the early Iron Age of the southern Levant. Since 2005\, he has directed the excavations at Tel Dan in northern Israel. He is also the editor of the journal NGSBA Archaeology.\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSponsored by the\nUCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\nFunding provided by the\nViterbi Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies\nCosponsored by the\nUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures\nUCLA Center for the Study of Religion\nUCLA Costen Institute of Archaeology\n  \n\n\nEvent Flyer\n\n\nPre-registration is required\nEmail: cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu or call (310)-267-5327 \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/ancient-israel-began-new-archaeological-perspective/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171117T093000
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SUMMARY:Conference: Sound and the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Sound—whether thunder or psalmody—plays a role in the formation and perception of the sacred. Religions acknowledge the importance of sound\, manifested in the voice of God\, the call to prayer\, collective chant\, and other profound ways. Sound unifies communities in sacred worship and arms sacred hierarchies. It is captured in images and contained in built environments. Sound—human\, angelic\, primordial\, heavenly— is critical to spiritual transformation. The connection of sound and the sacred is born in the first cry of a child emerging from the womb\, and at death\, sound is the last sense to leave the body. Sound is never extinguished; reverberations are theorized to be omnipresent and eternal. Sound fades beyond human cognition but lingers in the atmosphere. \nThis symposium addresses questions that are at the forefront of current academic research in the humanities and sciences. It showcases projects on the acoustical measurement of ancient\, Early Christian\, Byzantine\,Western Medieval\, Islamic and Renaissance temples\, churches\, and mosques. These projects engage scholars in innovative explorations of sound and its reception\, particularly within sacred landscapes. This symposium also considers orality/aurality and performance/reception\, through diachronic\, multidisciplinary\, and transdisciplinary approaches. \nLimited seating. \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/conference-sound-sacred/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T173000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Faith in Service of the City
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to serve a city? “Faith in Service of the City” is an event designed to create dialogue on–and offer potential models of–how residents of Los Angeles use their faith commitments\, tools\, resources\, beliefs\, practices\, and so forth to mobilize service acts to our city. Panelists representing significant faith-motivated organizations in the city will share about the work they do\, the challenges they face\, and the successes they’ve had in a hybrid presentational and moderated dialogue format. Audience Q+A and discussion will also feature. An excellent opportunity to think through relations between theory\, theology\, and practice\, as well as to meet–and potentially join!– those on the front line of service work in the City of Angels. \nSpeakers\n\nFosterall\nClergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) Los Angeles\nCafe 580 Wesley Foundation UCLA\nNewground\n\nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”23″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]\n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/panel-discussion-faith-service-city/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall\, Rm 1200
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