Past Events



Soul Science

Parapsychology in India, ca. 1952–1977
Projit Mukharji (Penn)
Nov 14, 2019 at -



Toward a Pacific Era

Peace and Empire in the Pan-Pacific Buddhists' Associations Conferences of the 1930s
Justin B. Stein (Bukkyō University)
Nov 7, 2019 at -

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…



Forging the Ideal Educated Girl

The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia
Shenila Khoja-Moolji (Bowdoin College)
Oct 24, 2019 at -



Medicalizing Salvation

Pathography and Drug Lore in Early Christian Ritual
John Penniman (Bucknell University)
Oct 17, 2019 at -



Disney Devotees

Religion and the Walt Disney Company
Jodi Eichler-Levine (Lehigh University)
Sep 26, 2019 at -



At Home

Community and Agency in Roman Domestic Religion
Kimberly Bowes (Penn)
Sep 19, 2019 at -



Making Moral Subjects

The 1958 Introduction of "Morality Time" in Japanese Public Schools
Jolyon Thomas (Penn)
Sep 12, 2019 at -



Colloquium Schedule Fall 2019

Sep 12, 2019 - Nov 14, 2019 (All Day)



Religious Studies Fall 2018 Colloquium

Nov 15, 2018 at -

AAR Graduate Student Presentations: 

"Airplanes that Preach and Monuments that Cry Out: Material Pentecostalism and the Form of American Religion" -Hudson

 

"I Urge you to Cast Your Vote for Jesus…



Aksumite Christianity: The Sources and Their Limitations

Nov 8, 2018 at -

Recent scholarship on the Mediterranean world in the first millennium has destabilized the methodological and theoretical assumptions that undergird traditional disciplinary boundaries between Early Christian Studies…