Select Recorded Lectures

University Lectures
 

10/02/14 Joshua Dubler (U. of Rochester), "Prisoners, Religion, and the Cultural Logic of Mass Incarceration"

02/26/15 Navtej K. Purewal (University of London) "Religion Beyond the Iconic: Exploring the Shared Ownership of Nanak"

03/5/15 John Bowen (Washington University in St. Louis), "How and Why Islamic Institutions Differ Across Western Europe"

09/22/15 Cynthia Hahn (Hunter College - CUNY), "Seeking Fragments of the Divine: The Lure of Passion Relics, the Power of the Cross"


Community Lectures

01/22/14 David Brakke (OSU, History), "The First Early Christian Heretics?: Why the Church Did Not Reject Gnosticism"

03/19/14 Tom Kasulis (OSU, Comparative Studies), "Japanese Shinto: Nature, Nation, and Creativity"

09/17/14 Dan Reff (Comparative Studies), "Why Mexico and Not Japan: Jesuit Missionaries and Conversion to Christianity During the Sixteenth Century"

12/03/14 Tom Kasulis (OSU, Comparative Studies), "Zen Buddhism as Creativity"

At-Large Lectures

10/24/13 Nicola Denzey Lewis (Brown University), "Lived Religion in the City of the Dead: Fourth-Century Christianity in the Roman Catacombs"

Religious Studies Roundtable

12/03/14 Wendy Doniger (University of Chicago) "Skepticism and Materialism in Ancient India"