Past Events

The Graduate Group in Religious Studies will hold a Zoom webinar for students who are interested in applying to the PhD program. Topics to be covered include basic eligibility requirements, English language…

Come enjoy food and conversation with other Penn students and faculty who share an interest in the study of religion as we talk openly about the search for meaning during an era of Covid, climate change and political…

Anthropology is an innately comparative discipline and yet, it has been noted, contemporary anthropologists are generally squeamish about explicitly…

In Wild Experiment, Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the conventional wisdom that feeling and thinking are separate. Drawing on science studies, philosophy, affect theory, secularism studies, psychology, and…

Virtual Book Launch

Justin McDaniel’s Wayward Distractions: Ornament, Emotion, Zombies, and the Study of Buddhism in Thailand (National University of Singapore…

Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, Melissa E. Sanchez’s Queer Faith reassesses the commonplace view that a modern…

What would it mean to talk about science and religion without talking just about people talking about science and religion? This talk will attempt to reach some general conclusions based on a historical…

Why was Foucault so interested in Christianity? And why is Foucault’s recently published Confessions of the Flesh (2018/2021) still surprising in its sole emphasis on early Christian texts? How is Foucault’s…