Productions of Prosperity, Gender, and the Supernatural in Nigerian Cinema
Jul 16, 2020
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PhD Candidate Chijioke Azuawusiefe will defend his dissertation, "Nollywood and Popular Religion: Productions of Prosperity, Gender, and the Supernatural in Nigerian Cinema…
The classic secularization narrative of the mid-20th century envisioned a progressive decline of religion as part of the advance of modernity. Charles Taylor has referred to this as the “subtraction story,” in which…
Constructing Authority and (Re)Writing History in the Nation's Capital
Jill Hicks-Keeton (University of Oklahoma)
Feb 20, 2020
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Jill Hicks-Keeton (Phd, Duke University) is the author of Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel's Living God in Jewish Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2018) and numerous academic articles. She…
Peace and Empire in the Pan-Pacific Buddhists' Associations Conferences of the 1930s
Justin B. Stein (Bukkyō University)
Nov 7, 2019
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In recent years, research into the links between Japanese Buddhism and Japanese colonialism has become a distinct subfield. At the same time, Japanese American studies has begun to look at Japanese migration to the U…
