Stephen Prothero & Kecia Ali in BU Today
President Trump: What Will He Do? BU experts weigh in on portents of 2016 election By BU Today staff Unity Stephen Prothero, Professor of Religion, College of Arts & Sciences The election revealed on one level what we already knew—that the country is deeply divided over the culture wars question that has bedeviled us since […]
“Muslim Thought and Practice in South Asia: New Practices and Directions”
We are pleased to announce a very exciting upcoming conference here at Boston University to be held on October 27th and 28th: Thursday, October 27th (5:15pm): Keynote Address by Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Princeton University, on “Islam in Modern South Asia: Continuity and Change since the Early 20th Century India” Location: 121 Bay State Rd., Boston, […]
BUCSA Director’s Seminar and EAAF Talk Event: Prof. April D. Hughes
Maitreya’s Terrestrial Paradise: Medieval Mural Paintings at Dunhuang Thursday Oct. 20, 2016 12:15-1:30 pm at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road
The Department of Religion mourns the loss of Elie Wiesel.
Yesterday, on the second day of the month of Sivan in the year 5776 (July 2, 2016), on a Sabbath, Elie Wiesel passed away in his Manhattan home. He was 87 years old. He is survived by his wife Marion, his son Elisha, a step-daughter, and two grandchildren. As colleagues and students of Elie Wiesel […]
Teena Purohit promoted to Associate Professor
Purohit studies the history of Islam, focusing on conceptions of religion in modern Islam and the impact of colonialism on modern Muslim intellectual thought. Her first book, The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India (Harvard University Press, 2012), was critically acclaimed. An expert in Sanskrit and Urdu, she is currently working on […]
The Department of Religion welcomes April Hughes
The Department of Religion welcomes our new Chinese Religions scholar, April Hughes. Hughes received her Ph.D. from Princeton University and has been an assistant professor at Gonzaga University in Spokane since 2014. Her research interests include early Chinese Buddhism and apocalyptic themes in Chinese religion. She will begin offering courses in Asian religions this fall.
The study of religion and others’ religions is increasingly important all over the globe.
Religious studies can keep secularism alive in India Mark Tully Updated: Apr 24, 2016 11:21 IST Recently Oxford University’s Faculty of Theology and Religion caused something of a sensation when it was reported that its undergraduate students would not have to study Christianity. As often happens in this sort of situation, on reading the small […]
4/15/16: Adam Seligman & Rahel Wasserfall at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store presents Adam Seligman & Rahel Wasserfall Join us at Harvard Book Store on Friday, April 15th at 3:00pm, when Professor of Religion at Boston University and CEDAR director Adam B. Seligman and Director of Training and Evaluation for CEDAR Rahel R. Wasserfall discuss their book Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World, co-authored […]
Michael Zank: Two States One Homeland
I just returned from London, where I participated in a seminar convened by Lord Stone of Blackheath on a two-year old grassroots peace initiative for Israel and Palestine called Two States, One Homeland (TSOH). You can find a longer report on this meeting HERE. In addition to the two founders of this initiative, Tel Aviv-based […]
Thursday, March 24th: Department of Religion Annual Lecture
Caroline Walker Bynum Holy Beds and Holy Families: Encounters with Devotional Objects in the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Boston University Department of Religion Annual Lecture and the Program in Scripture and the Arts are proud to present Caroline Walker Bynum, from the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. Professor Bynum is a preeminent scholar in […]