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All Religions Are Not Alike Stephen Prothero calls “pretend pluralism” a danger By Rich Barlow How does a religion teacher get an invitation to appear, in June, on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report? By writing a book saying that Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, and others have preached about the shared, benign beliefs unifying all great […]

Bringing History of Religion to Life

Religion professors Fredriksen, Jacobs speak at Hillel House tonight Tonight Fredriksen, author of several books on religion, among them Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism, will deliver a lecture titled How Odd Was God to Choose the Jews: The History of Early Christian ‘Flesh’ at BU’s Hillel House. She’ll be […]

Boston University Department of Religion 14th Annual Lecture

How Odd was God/To Choose the Jews: The History of Early Christian “Flesh” Tuesday, February 9th, 5:00pm A lecture by Boston University’s Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture, Paula Fredriksen and Scripps College Professor Andrew Jacobs, as they discuss ancient Christianity’s ambivalence toward the flesh and toward the Jews and how Augustine challenged those […]

Teena Purohit

Teena Purohit will be joining the Religion Department in Fall 2009. She received her Ph.D in Religion at Columbia University in 2007. She has taught classes on major texts of the Middle East and South Asia at Columbia University and South Asian Religions at UC Irvine. Professor Purohit’s research and teaching interests focus on the […]

Department of Religion in Research Magazine 2009

In the current issue of Research Magazine 2009, Katherine French, a BA/MA double major in religion and archaeology, is researching the Gospel of John. Ms. French is being mentored by Professor Jennifer Knust through BU’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). “My research was a strange combination of paleography, traditional historiography, art history, and even archaeology,” […]

Emily Hudson

Boston University Department of Religion is pleased to announce a new faculty member coming January 1st. Emily T. Hudson, who will be joining the Religion Department in the spring 2010, received her M.A. from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University with a specialization in South […]

The Program in Scripture and the Arts Presents Dunya: Popular Scriptures in Islam

Many devotional and liturgical poems composed in the Turkish language by Suleyman Celebi (early 15th c.), Yunus Emre (13th c.) and others still reserve a very popular place in Islam in Turkey. Join us for a lecture on Anatolian Islamic musical and ritualistic traditions that use the Turkish language in their poetry, followed by Q&A […]