Join us on Thursday, September 21, from 5 to 7 PM, for a boat cruise along Boston’s beautiful Charles River. This fun, annual event is a great way to kick off the new semester and mingle with CURA colleagues and friends. Drinks and light hors d’oeuvres will be served. Boat departs from the Deerfield Dock […]
CURA announces the fall 2023 colloquium schedule. This year-long conversation brings together an interdisciplinary community of scholars of Religion & Empire. Please register below for the session(s) you plan to attend. 20 years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, scholars of religion are again examining the place of empire in history and international relations. We […]
We are pleased to announce the 2023-2024 CURA Colloquium Fellows. This year’s theme is Religion and Empire. Please keep a eye out for the fall schedule, coming soon.
Check out the colloquium page for details.
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Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement is the first World Christianity textbook to put women in the center of the Christian story, especially Christianity’s shift to the global South and the continuation of Christian faith into the future. The book is based on a Louisville Institute funded project, “Women in World […]
Spring Colloquium Schedule
“Ex-Muslims and the Politics of Public Apostasy From Islam in Contemporary France” with Adi Saleem Bharat (CAS ’14) Assistant Professor, Romance Languages & Judaic Studies, University of Michigan Tuesday, December 13 2:00-3:30pm 121 Bay State Rd. This talk examines the “coming-out” narratives of self-described ex-Muslims in France. Generally speaking, two main types of narratives exist: […]
Saleena Saleem, PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool and CURA visiting student One contributing factor to socio-political polarisation in Malaysia is the repeated emotive trope of a secular-versus-religious dichotomy that is reinforced through racial politics, (un)civil society activism, and media frames, especially when contentious issues involving Islamic law, often related to women and gender, capture public […]