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Living with Others: Conscience, Coercion, and Freedom
Coffee Hour
Religious Studies invites you to our monthly coffee hour!
Religion and Democrats in 2020: The Devil’s in the Details
A public Lecture by Amy Sullivan, Journalist and Author of The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats are Closing the God Gap.
Religion and Polarized Politics: Peter Wehner and Melissa Rogers on Revitalizing Democratic Pluralism
Moderated discussion between Peter Wehner and Melissa Rogers, two former White House officials
Coffee Hour - Major/Minor Welcome
Help us welcome our new majors and minors at this special coffee hour!
Welcoming the Stranger to St. Louis: Religious Responses to Recent Immigrants and Refugees
Address by Anna Crosslin, President and CEO of the International Institute of St. Louis, followed by a panel discussion with local religious leaders
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
2018-2019 Weltin Lecture: Jesus the Jewish Storyteller: Of Pearls and Prodigals
Lecture by Amy-Jill Levine, University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies, & Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University.
The Political Captivity of the Faithful
Lecture by Dr. Nathan Hatch, president of Wake Forest University.
Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan
Jolyon Thomas, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Identifying Depression: Jewish and Psychological Perspectives
Dr. David Pelcovitz will deliver the Boniuk-Tanzman Family Memorial Lecture in Medical Ethics.
Torah Edgeplay: Risk, Community, and Ethics from the Beit Midrash to BDSM
The talk, Torah Edgeplay, is being presented by Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi, Friedman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies.
Coffee Hour
Religious Studies invites you to our monthly coffee hour!
Liberal Arts Education: What’s the Point? Robert George and Cornel West in Conversation
Public conversation and reception with Professors George and West.
The First Atlantic Revolution? Islam, Abolition, & Republic in West Africa & the Americas, 1770-1806
Professor Butch Ware, Department of History at UC Santa Barbara
Theta Alpha Kappa Ice Cream Social
Come meet our newest members & celebrate the end of the semester!
Religious Studies Senior Symposium
Religious Studies and Religion & Politics Open House
Welcome incoming students!
Overcoming Political Tribalism and Recovering Our American Democracy
A Public Conversation Between Amy Chua and John Danforth
Religious Studies Fall Coffee Hour
Stop by for refreshments and lively conversation!
Arts & Sciences Major-Minor Fair
Students, come learn about Religious Studies!
Religious Studies Fall Coffee Hour
Stop by for refreshments and lively conversation!
Third Annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions: "Foxes, Gods and Monsters in the Edo Anthropocene"
Michael Bathgate, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Religious Studies and Theology, Saint Xavier University
What You Need to Know about Antisemitism and Islamophobia to Understand the World Today
Dr. Hillel J. Kieval, Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought and Chair of the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies.
When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom
Asma Uddin unpacks the claims of her new book, When Islam Is Not a Religion. Followed by a panel discussion where she will be joined by Prof. Tazeen Ali and Prof. Laurie Maffly-Kipp, moderated by Prof. John Inazu.
The Color of Compromise
A public dialogue between author Jemar Tisby and John Inazu on Tisby’s acclaimed book The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism.
Water Histories of Ancient Yemen and the American West
Michael Harrower, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Director of Undergraduate Studies - Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University
What You Need to Know about Islam and Politics to Understand the World Today
Dr. David Warren, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies.
The Biblical Prophets and their Social World
Victor H. Matthews, PhD - Dean of the College of Humanities and Public Affairs and Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University
We Believe in Dinosaurs
Movie by Clayton Brown & Monica Long Ross. “We Believe in Dinosaurs” tells the story of the troubling relationship between science and religion in the United States.
We Are Not Princesses
“We Are Not Princesses” offers moving profiles of a half-dozen Syrian women refugees in Beirut who come together to tell their stories of love, loss, pain, and hope through the lens of the ancient Greek play “Antigone.” More a therapeutic exercise than a purely artistic enterprise, the theatrical production helps the women find community and process their trauma. Most of the women — resilient, intelligent, articulate — relate their own stories onscreen. Other participants, however, remain unseen, their histories presented through lovely animation because their husbands would not allow them to appear on camera, which speaks to the many challenges they face: not just their traumatic dislocation but also the sociocultural restrictions on their autonomy.
Stellar Evolution and Recent Discoveries by the Vatican Observatory
Fr. David Brown, SJ will speak about his scientific discoveries and his time as a Vatican astronomer.
“The Judge” Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Join us for this special screening of the new documentary “The Judge” that tells the story of the Palestinian judge Khulud al-Faqih – the first woman to be appointed as a judge on a religious court anywhere in the Middle East.
Religious Studies Fall Coffee Hour
Stop by for refreshments and lively conversation!
Doc Shorts: Leaps of Faith
An eclectic selection of films — from the comedic to the deadly serious — that explore religion in its many manifestations.
Patrinell: The Total Experience
Movie Directed by: Andrew Elizaga & Tia Young. Because of the steady exodus of African Americans from the rapidly gentrifying, historically black neighborhood of Seattle’s Central District, the city’s extraordinarily gifted “First Lady of Gospel,” the Rev. Patrinell Staten Wright, struggles to maintain the world-famous Total Experience Gospel Choir, which she has directed for 45 years.
22nd Annual Nelson Wu Lecture: "Dancing in Circles in the Arts on India and Its Neighbors"
Forrest McGill, Wattis Senior Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Book Talk: Phillip Maciak
TAK Study Break
Join us in taking a moment to relax and regain energy!