In addition to the incredible events that Dr. Batmanghelichi has helped organize this year, such as Surveillance and the Mosque and Intimacies Days I&III, Soraya has also published two new pieces of scholarship. First, as part of a book symposium, “A Letter to Foucault: Selectively Narrating the Stories of Secular Iranian Feminists“, she published a…
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Religion and the Vote: The Role of Faith in Modern American Elections Monday, October 17, 2016 More information about this event is available here. Featuring: Anthea Butler, University of Pennsylvania Robert P. Jones, PRRI, Author of The End of White Christian America Sarah Posner, Journalist, Author of God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican…
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Faith, Secularism, and Humanitarian Engagement Wednesday, September 21, 2016 More information on this event is available here. Featuring: Alastair Ager is Director of the Institute for Global Health and Development at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and Professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. George Rupp is Columbia…
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Wael Hallaq, Columbia University “God’s Word: Between the Intentional and the Political” Friday, February 13 4:10 – 6:00pm 80 Claremont Ave, Room 101 What does it mean for something to be ‘the word of God?’ What are the origins, forms, and functions of this concept? This seminar series will investigate what…
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Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University “The Word of God in Translation” Friday, March 6 Knox Hall, Room 509 See the Word of God series for more information on other talks in the series. Listen to the seminar here: https://ircpl.org/audio/BachirDiagne-TheWordofGodinTranslation.mp3
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Arindam Chakrabarti, University of Hawai’i “Moral Epistemic Authority With or Without God: The Meaning of an Imperative Sentence (Vidhi-vAkya), Nyaya versus Miimamsa” with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak as Chair Friday, February 27, 10:00am – 12:00pm Schermerhorn Extension, Room 754 What does it mean for something to be ‘the word of God?’ What are the…
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What does it mean for something to be ‘the word of God?’ What are the origins, forms, and functions of this concept? This seminar series will investigate what it means within the traditions of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, with a variety of scholars and thinkers. The first talk in this…
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In conjunction with the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL) at Columbia University and RESET: Dialogue of Civilizations (Italy), the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies (RBIIS) recently organized a two-day conference on “Religious Wars in Early Modern Europe and Contemporary Islam.” The organizers, RBIIS director John Torpey…
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“Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner” Listen to “The Jesus Prayer: An Ancient Christian Prayer in the Context of Community” in full here: https://ircpl.org/audio/JESUS_PRAYER_FINAL.mp3 The Jesus Prayer: An Ancient Christian Prayer in the Context of Community New Directions in Prayer is a three-part series of one-hour…
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Listen to “Trauma and Prayer” in full here: http://ircpl.org/audio/trauma_prayer.mp3 Trauma and Prayer New Directions in Prayer is a three-part series of one-hour radio episodes produced by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life for its media project Rethinking Religion. “Trauma and Prayer,” the first episode in the series, explores the role prayer plays…
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