Events

In France, the consumption of pork and access to citizenship have a long tradition dating back to the 18th century, which has led to various discussions about Jews' belonging to…

Please join faculty and graduate students from the Department of Religious Studies on Saturday, November 23 in San Diego. The Fall Boardman Reception previews two major upcoming events on our Spring calendar: The…

This talk critiques how, in order to understand the beliefs of historical people, scholars do not DO…

This talk centers on the social, political, and affective consequences of living with growing Islamophobia for Indian Muslims. In the years after 2014, memories of riots and…

The University of Pennsylvania Department of Religious Studies is thrilled to host the first of three Philadelphia-area lectures as part of the American Academy of Religion's prestigious…

For much of the early 2000s, seduction forum users struggled with magic. They had gathered online to perfect methods for persuading women to have sex with them. Having perfected…

The Scopes Trial of 1925 was an inflection point in US conversations around religion, science, education, and mass media. A century later, core issues surfaced by the Scopes Trial are still with us—…

This event provides a schematic introduction to the thought of Sylvia Wynter, a Jamaican theorist whose work has become enormously influential in contemporary theories of race,…

Emily Ng is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research centers on themes of madness, religiosity, and cosmopolitics, with…