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SUMMARY:Religion(s) in State(s) of Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Scholars of religion are not in the fortune telling business\, but the comparative study of religion does provide multiple examples of how social\, economic\, and political crises have contributed to the transformation of cultural and religious systems in the past and can help us understand and anticipate how contemporary crises might be navigated in the future. Whether a crisis is envisioned as testing-by-trial\, a punishment for disobedient violations of a covenant\, the cause-and-effect results of karmic suffering\, a convenient opportunity to transfer blame onto a scapegoat\, a call invoking the need for “sacrifice\,” or the apocalyptic solution of a battle between the forces of good and evil\, it is to the language of religious discourse that we can turn to make sense and meaning of religion(s) in a state of crisis. This talk will briefly survey the study of religious crisis and provide an exploratory\, illustrative example of how different social groups respond differently by focusing on the catastrophic destruction of the Jerusalem Temple\, and how different responses to this particular crisis ultimately facilitated the construction of rabbinical Judaism and Christianity. \n  \n\nDr. Simon J. Joseph is Lecturer in Early Christianity at the University of California\, Los Angeles. He holds a Master’s degree in Religious Studies from New York University and a Ph.D. in Religion (New Testament) from Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of four books and over two dozen scholarly articles. His work has been published in the Harvard Theological Review\, the Journal of Biblical Literature\, New Testament Studies\, Dead Sea Discoveries\, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion\, and History of Religions. In addition to his scholarly work in religion and biblical studies\, Dr. Joseph is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker. \n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”98″ title=”false” description=”false”]
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SUMMARY:Take Shelter: Teaching and Learning about the End Times\, from Late Antiquity to Our Times
DESCRIPTION:In Jeff Nichols’s 2011 film Take Shelter\, Michael Shannon portrays Curtis\, a blue-collar family man who is haunted by terrifying prophetic visions of the end of the world. As he becomes obsessed with building a shelter in his backyard\, convinced a storm is coming\, Curtis’s relationships suffer and his life falls apart. \nHow are we to understand the film’s portrayal of Curtis’s prophetic experience? In his commentary on the film\, Dr. Pregill will discuss different possible interpretations of it\, especially pertaining to the shifts in perspective on its apocalyptic message generated by our recent collective confrontation of various proximate doomsday scenarios. How do changes in our perception of immediate crisis alter our reading of narratives? More importantly\, how does crisis fatigue impair our ability to see danger clearly\, to take warnings about the end seriously? \nNOTE: please register for this Zoom webinar by registering below. Registrees will be sent an email with a link for the Zoom session as well as a link to stream the film online. \n  \nDr. Michael Pregill is a scholar of comparative religion\, focusing on the scriptural cultures of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Much of his research focuses on the reception of biblical\, Jewish\, and Christian traditions in the Qur’an and Islam. He lives and teaches in Los Angeles\, California. \n  \nRSVP Below – RSVP REQUIRED FOR ACCESS:\n[gravityform id=”99″ title=”false” description=”false”]
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