April 9: Celebrate the publication of Gina Cogan’s new book.
The Princess Nun: Bunchi, Buddhist Reform, and Gender in Early Edo Japan By Gina Cogan Harvard University Asia Center March 3, 2014 Buy it now from Amazon.com! Wednesday, April 9 4:00 PM WGS Sitting Room 704 Commonwealth Avenue Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program
Heidegger: A Nazi? BU Visiting Professor Thomas Meyer weighs in.
Heidegger’s Notebooks Renew Focus on Anti-Semitism By JENNIFER SCHUESSLERMARCH 30, 2014 The philosopher Martin Heidegger, circa 1933. Credit Corbis It has long been one of the most contentious questions in 20th-century intellectual history: Just how much, and what kind, of a Nazi was the German philosopher Martin Heidegger? Read more
Deeana Klepper lectures at UConn
Boston University professor gives lecture on Christianity and Judaism in medieval Europe By Carles Lopez, Campus Correspondent Monday March 10, the 4th–lecture of the yearlong series about the relationship between Jews and Christians, “Exile in the Eye of the Beholder, Jews, Christians and the Embrace of Exile in Medieval Europe.” The lecturer, Deeana Klepper, an […]
Kecia Ali to lecture at Macalester College
Kecia Ali will deliver the Arnold Lowe Lecture at Macalester College on March 9. The title of her talk is “The Lives of Muhammad.”‘ http://events.macalester.edu/event.cfm?id=22039
Frank Korom elected to be a Research Fellow
Frank Korom has been elected to be a Research Fellow at the Anthropological Institute of Nanzan University in Japan.
Stephen Prothero, ” The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation”
February 27, 2014 7:00 PM 213 Bay State Road, BU Hillel House, 2nd Floor In this Discoveries Series lecture, based on his recent book, The American Bible, Stephen Prothero argues that the United States is more Jewish than Christian, held together not by a common creed but by a common conversation about the speeches and […]
Job market stable for religion majors, study suggests
Daily Free Press article written by Alyssa Ciofani. January 29, 2014 Students majoring in religious studies at institutions of higher education such as Boston University will likely face more job prospects than they would have in the early 2000s upon graduating, according to a recent report. Read More….
February 20, 2014
Department of Religion 18th Annual Lecture Carl W. Ernst “How to Read the Qur’an”
Listen to Teena Purohit’s interview on New Books in Islamic Studies.
The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India. Harvard University Press, 2012 How does colonial power, both discursive and institutional, transform the normative boundaries and horizons of religious identities? Teena Purohit, Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University, examines this question in The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India (Harvard […]
Kecia Ali to participate in The Shari’a Project: A UK-Netherlands Islamic Legal Studies Network
On Friday 15 and Saturday 16 November 2013, the University of Exeter, together with LUCIS organises its third workshop on Islamic Legal Studies of the Sharia Project. Visiting scholar: Professor Kecia Ali. Venue: (15th of November) Gravensteen, room 011. (16th of November) Lipsius, room 147. Time: 09.00-17.30……..more.