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Science, Religion, & Culture: Book Panel - The Medieval Islamic hospital - Medicine, Religion and Charity

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The Center for the Study of World Religions invites you to a Book Panel The Medieval Islamic hospital Medicine, Religion and Charity with Shigehisa Kuriyama Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History Chair, the Department of East Asian Languages...

Religion and the 2020 Election: a Conversation with James Kloppenberg & EJ Dionne

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The Council on the Study of Religion co-sponsored by the Committee on the Study of Religion and Harvard Divinity School Invites you to RELIGION AND THE 2020 ELECTION: A CONVERSATION WITH JAMES KLOPPENBERG & EJ DIONNE Moderated by Catherine Brekus Please...

CMES: Why France Fears Islam: Religion, Democracy And Human Rights In The Time Of Elections

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Jocelyne Cesari Professor of Religion and Politics, Department of Theology and Religion, Director of Research, Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion, University of Birmingham Jocelyne...

Study Group On Religion and Myth in the Ancient World lecture series: Translators' Prefaces

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This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information on this lecture or on the Study Group, please visit http://www.bu.edu/classics/lectures-conferences/religion-and-myth/ For advance readings please email Jeff Henderson ( jhenders@bu.edu)...

MHS: Disestablishing Virtue: Federalism, Religion, and New England Women Writers

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Event is Free. No Registration Required. Gretchen Murphy, University of Texas at Austin This talk examines the religious expressions of 18 th- and 19 th-century female Federalist writers, specifically Catharine Sedgwick, in the context of the Federalist...

Divinity School: Race, Religion, and Rebellion: Recovering the Antebellum Writing and Itinerant Ministry of Zilpha Elaw

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Kimberly Blockett, PhD (Penn State, Brandywine) Colorado Scholar, Visiting Associate Professor of Women's Studies and African American Religions Lunch to accompany.

The Comparative Study of the Abrahamic Religions: Heuristic Gains and Cognitive Pitfalls

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Lecture by Guy Stroumsa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Oxford University Response by Jon Levenson, Harvard Divinity School Opening Remarks by Charles Stang, Harvard Divinity School, and Adam Afterman, Tel-Aviv University Sponsors: Center for the...

Divinity School: Book Event: Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion

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Please join us as Amy Hollywood, HDS Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies, discusses her recent publication, Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion. Laura Nasrallah (HDS), Catherine Brekus (HDS)...

“Religion and American Foreign Relations in the 19th Century”, Emily Conroy-Krutz (Michigan State University)

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Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Religion and Public Life in North America, 16 th Century to the Present” Speaker: Emily Conroy-Krutz (Michigan State University) For the workshop paper, and the password to access the paper, please contact cwc...

CES: Mountains, Continents, Economics and Religion: Four Ways to Think about European History

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This panel, “Mountains, Continents, Economics and Religion: Four Ways to Think about European History,” features works-in-progress from graduate students in the History Department. These four historians will share claims drawn from their dissertation...

Fairbank Center: The Souls of China: The Return of Religion after Mao

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Further details on the Fairbank Center website. Speaker: Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history. He works out of Beijing and Berlin, where he also teaches and advises academic journals and think tanks...

Between Fait-divers and Grand récit: The French Wars of Religion and the Genres of Historiography in the Sixteenth Century.

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You are all warmly invited to the last Mahindra Humanities Center Renaissance Studies seminar of the semester. December 8th at 11am (Eastern), Andrea Frisch (Dept of French & Italian, University of Maryland), will be presenting, "Between Fait-divers and...