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Morgan Buck edited the blog post March Events at the Committee for the Study of Religion in the group Committee for the Study of Religion: 8 years, 2 months ago

March 3: Bryan Turner (Sociology, The Graduate Center)
“Islamophobia versus Islamofascism: The Role of Advocacy Concepts in Sociology”

March 9: Shehzad Nadeem (Sociology, Lehman College and the Graduate Center)
“Bourgeois Bodies: How Yoga was Made Middle Class and Modern”

March 16: Jon Keller (Government, Manhattan Co…[Read more]

Lisa Tagliaferri joined the group Committee for the Study of Religion 8 years, 6 months ago

Mark Porter Webb edited the blog post 2/11 and 2/18–Graduate Student Workshops in the group Committee for the Study of Religion: 8 years, 7 months ago

February 11th Graduate Student Workshop, featuring Kyle Francis and Jeffrey Culang with Anna Akasoy as respondent. 12:30-2 pm, room 5307

Abstracts

“Civilizing Settlers: Catholic Missionaries and France’s ‘Other Civilizing Mission’ in Colonial Algeria,” Kyle Francis

This paper examines the work of Catholic missionaries in the French…[Read more]

Mark Porter Webb edited the blog post 2015-2016 Fellowship Competition Now Open! in the group Committee for the Study of Religion: 8 years, 7 months ago

2015-2016 Committee for the Study of Religion Fellowship

Call for Mid-Career and Dissertation Fellowship Applications on the theme of “Successful Societies”

DEADLINE for Doctoral Student and Mid-Career Faculty Applications: Monday, March 9th at noon.

The Committee for the Study of Religion invites applications from recently t…[Read more]

Mark Porter Webb edited the blog post 3/13/15–Conference, “Political Legacies of the Protestant Reformation” in the group Committee for the Study of Religion: 8 years, 7 months ago

Mark Porter Webb edited the blog post 4/24/15–Conference on Protestantism and Aesthetics in the group Committee for the Study of Religion: 8 years, 7 months ago

Mark Porter Webb edited the blog post 3/25/15–KAREN MILLER, THE FRONTIER AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN THE 1930S PHILIPPINES: MINDANAO MUSLIMS, CHRISTIAN SETTLEMENT, AND STRUGGLES OVER LAND TENURE in the group Committee for the Study of Religion: 8 years, 7 months ago

Wednesday March 25th, 12:30-2pm

Graduate Center, Room 5307

During the 1930s, Filipinos struggled over how and whether to integrate territory and people from “Non-Christian” areas into the newly emerging nation-state. Under US colonial rule, these regions had been managed separately from the rest of the archipelago. Begin…[Read more]

Mark Porter Webb edited the blog post 4/27/15–ANA STUVEN, MODERNITY AND RELIGION IN 19TH CENTURY CHILE. THE CREATION OF A REPUBLICAN PUBLIC SPHERE in the group Committee for the Study of Religion: 8 years, 7 months ago

12:30-2pm, Graduate Center Room 5307

One of the big challenges posed by the arrival of Western modernity has been the role assigned in it to the religious. In this presentation I wish to discuss the relationship between religion and politics in dialogue with modernity during the l9th century in Chile, focusing on two problems: one, the poli…[Read more]

Mark Porter Webb edited the blog post 5/1/15–Conference: The Politics of Eschatology and Global Movements in the group Committee for the Study of Religion: 8 years, 7 months ago

Friday, May 1st 2-5:30
CUNY Graduate Center
Room 5307

Ruth Marshall (University of Toronto), “Spiritual Warfare in the End Times: Evangelical Politics of Truth and Time”

Nerina Rustomji (St. John’s University), “The Houri Code: Online Jihadi and Feminist Interpretations on the Heavenly Virgins of Islamic Paradise”

Lynn R. Hub…[Read more]

Saman Naquvi joined the group Committee for the Study of Religion 8 years, 7 months ago

Widad Hassan joined the group Committee for the Study of Religion 8 years, 7 months ago

Kevin Cedeño-Pacheco joined the group Committee for the Study of Religion 8 years, 8 months ago

Mark Porter Webb wrote a new blog post November 12–Helen Lindberg: “Nikah Mut’ah as Feminist Social Contract- Justifying Burdens and Benefits in an Islamic Sexual Contract” in the group Committee for the Study of Religion: 9 years, 5 months ago

Islam, in its many diverse forms, can conventionally be understood as holding a positive view on human sexuality. And in the same time, in many Muslim communities there are strong regulations of sexuality in […]

Mark Porter Webb wrote a new blog post November 7–‘WERE REFORMED PROTESTANTS UNHAPPY PEOPLE?’ in the group Committee for the Study of Religion: 9 years, 5 months ago

12.00-2.00 Workshop with history, sociology and Religion Committee.

Lunch provided. Potential Participants: Yuri Contreras-Vejar, Sarah Covington, Helena Rosenblatt, Bryan Turner

Dana Ernst joined the group Committee for the Study of Religion 10 years, 3 months ago

Angela Dunne joined the group Committee for the Study of Religion 10 years, 3 months ago

Malav Kanuga wrote a new blog post Announcement of International Workshop: The Future of Religious Pluralism in Europe in the group Committee for the Study of Religion: 11 years ago

International Workshop: The Future of Religious Pluralism in Europe

Friday, May 17th – Saturday, May 18th 2013

Academic Direction: Volker Heins (KWI), Riem Spielhaus, (EZIRE)

Location: Institute for […]

Flannery Amdahl joined the group Committee for the Study of Religion 11 years, 1 month ago

Keith Miyake wrote a new blog post Call for papers: Special Issue of Gender & Society in the group Committee for the Study of Religion: 11 years, 1 month ago

Gender is one of the most salient features of religious movements and religious institutions. Women are the majority of participants in religious life and they are increasingly significant actors in […]

Keith Miyake wrote a new blog post Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Göttingen in the group Committee for the Study of Religion: 11 years, 1 month ago

University of Göttingen – Transregional Research Network
Two Postdoctoral Fellows-Secularity and New Religiosities
The University of Göttingen is launching a transregional research network (CETREN) under the […]

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