Everything Religious Studies
Everyone is welcome to attend these lectures featuring university professors speaking about current topics in religious studies.
Upcoming Lectures
Please come back later as information about new lectures in this series will be posted here as details are confirmed.
Past Lectures
Michelle Folk
Why They Read the Writing on the Wall: The Orientalist Encounter with India's Inscriptions
February 27, 2015
Susan Johnston (Department of English)
The One Thing Needful: Dickens, Religion, and the Meaning of Human Work
November 15, 2013
Marcel Decoste (Department of English)
Properly Suzerain of the Earth': Atavistic Enlightenment and the Frontiers of Un-making in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
April 5, 2013
Richard Hordern
Why the Fundamentalist Interpretation of the Bible is wrong
March 16, 2012
Hybrid Spaces, Bridges, and Wild Winds: Feminist Muslim-Christian Dialogue
March 4, 2011
Kevin Bond
The Grotesque Buddha: Parodies of Buddhist Exhibitions in Early Modern Japan
October 29, 2010
Jacoba Kuikman
Fundamentalism in Israel: a Threat from Within
February 26, 2010
Yuan Ren
The Bodhisattva Manjushri in Buddhist texts and Popular Traditions
October 30, 2009
Volker Greifenhagen
Real Islam: Discourses of Religious Authenticity
February 27, 2009
Ben Fiore
Writing the commentary on the Pastoral Epistles
January 16, 2009
Darlene Juschka
Signifying Demons: Gender in the Ritualized Performance of Possession and Exorcism
October 31, 2008
Leona Anderson
Santería: the Orishas of Cuba (dvd Documentary)
Sept 26, 2008