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Robert N McCauley (Emory), October 21, 2010 video
The Role of Maturationally Natural Cognition in Science and Religion
2013 Lectures
Laura Olson (Clemson), September 19, 2013 video
R & P in a New Key: The Politics of Religiously Progressive and Unaffiliated Americans
Shahzad Bashir (Stanford), January 17, 2013 audio
Ink and Blood: Producing the Past in Persianate Islamic Societies
Nicola Denzey Lewis (Brown), October 24, 2013 video
Lived Religion in the City of the Dead: Fourth-Century Christianity in the Roman Catacombs
David Brakke (History), January 22, 2014 video
The First Early Christian Heretics?: Why the Church Did Not Reject Gnosticism
Susan Huntington (History of Art), February 26, 2014 video
Seeing the Divine: Understanding Hinduism Through Art
Tom Kasulis (Comparative Studies), March 19, 2014 video
Japanese Shinto: Nature, Nation, and Creativity
Dan Reff (Comparative Studies), September 17, 2014 video
Why Mexico and Not Japan: Jesuit Missionaries and Conversion to Christianity During the Sixteenth Century
Joshua Dubler (U. of Rochester), October 2, 2014 video
Prisoners, Religion, and the Cultural Logic of Mass Incarceration
Wendy Doniger (University of Chicago), December 3, 2014 audio
Skepticism and Materialism in Ancient India
Tom Kasulis (Comparative Studies), December 3, 2014 audio
Zen Buddhism as Creativity
2015 Lectures
Isaac Weiner (Comparative Studies), January 21, 2015 audio
Evolution v. Creationism: A Short History
Peter van der Veer (Max Planck Institute, Göttingen), February 3, 2015 audio
Urban Religion in Asia: A Comparative Perspective
Sarah Iles Johnston (Classics), February 18, 2015 audio
There and Back Again: Constructing the Story World of Ancient Greek Myth
Navtej Purewal (University of London), February 26, 2015 audio
Religion Beyond the Iconic: Exploring the Shared Ownership of Nanak
John Bowen (Washington University in St. Louis), March 5, 2015 audio
How and Why Islamic Institutions Differ Across Western Europe
Hugh Urban (Comparative Studies), March 11, 2015 audio
New Religious Movements: Testing the Limits of 'Religion' in Contemporary America
Hannibal Hamlin (English), September 16, 2015 video
Exploding the Sacred-Secular Divide in English Renaissance Literature
Cynthia Hahn (Hunter College - CUNY), September 22, 2015 video
Seeking Fragments of the Divine: The Lure of Passion Relics, the Power of the Cross
Cynthia Burack (Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies), October 7, 2015 video
"The Persecuted Church" and LGBTQ Human Rights Abroad
Barbara Haeger (History of Art), December 9, 2015 video
In the Wake of Iconoclasm: Justifying the Use of the Images in Christian Worship
Katherine Borland (Comparative Studies), February 17, 2016 video
"Miracle Stories and Material Signs: Everyday Discourses on Belief"
Peter Gottschalk (Wesleyan University), March 3, 2016 video
"Sidestepping Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism: Resetting the Terms of Secular Description"
David Brakke (History), April 13, 2016 video
"The Gospel of Judas: Gnostic Truth and Apostolic Heresy in Early Christianity"
Timothy Renick (Georgia State University), Keynote Lecture, "The Critical Study of Religion and the Future of the Humanities" Conference, April 28, 2016 video
"Why Study Religion? Rethinking the Value of the Religious Studies Major"