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Cultivation of Desire

Cultivation of Desire

September 9, 2015

At this week’s World Religions Café, Axel Takács, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the study of religion, presented on a topic related to his dissertation, which is an exercise in Christian comparative theology with the Islamic religious tradition, and tentatively entitled “Cultivation of Desire.” For his presentation, Axel examined a Persian love lyric (ghazal) by the well-known 14th-century poet of Shīrāz, Ḥāfiẓ. He situated his interpretation of this love lyric within two traditions contemporaneous to Ḥāfiẓ. The first is the Akbarian mystical tradition, which is the ...

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Video: From Donation to Diatribe—How Anti-Jewish Interpretation Cashes Out

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Amy-Jill Levine delivered this year's Comparative Theology Lecture. Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and College of Arts and Sciences.... Read more about Video: From Donation to Diatribe—How Anti-Jewish Interpretation Cashes Out