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868 results for "religion"

868 results for "religion"

Embodied Pedagogies in Religion

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Embodied Pedagogies in Religion: Transforming the Classroom In contemporary American culture, the predominant assumption is that the transformation that takes place in the classroom is the transformation of a disembodied intellectual subject. If we are...

Video: Religion Across the Disciplines

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The 2014 CSWR annual spring conference 'Studying Religion Across the Disciplines' took place on March 27-29, 2014. The conference aimed to foster a lasting conversation among scholars studying religion across the disciplines of the humanities, social...

Resurfacing Religion in Contemporary China

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Anna Sun, Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Kenyon College, is Harvard Divinity School’s second Berggruen Fellow. Her research focuses on the revival of Confucianism as a religion in contemporary China. She also works on larger...

Religion-Specific or Trans-Religious?

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On Monday, March 6, Robert C. Neville, Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at the Boston University School of Theology, will deliver the Annual Comparative Theology Lecture at the Center for the Study of World Religions. Below, Neville spoke...

Video: The Religion of White Rage

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This panel discussion of "The Religion of White Rage" was held November 2 with the book’s three editors, as part of the Center for the Study of World Religion's series on “Race, Religion, and Nationalism.” This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white...

Video: The Bon Religion of Tibet

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This lecture, which was the second event as part of CSWR Junior Fellow Konchok Tsering's series, Studying Religions in the Minority, was delivered by Samten G. Karmay, former president of the International Association for Tibetan Studies.

Video: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

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Where do our ideas about how the economy works, and our views on economic policy, come from? Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets, among economists as well as many ordinary citizens, is a form of religion. The...

The Body in Yoruba Religion

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The rituals associated with the numerous òrìṣà traditions in the Yoruba cosmology allow practitioners to experience the àṣẹ (agential power, energy, nature, or authority) of the òrìṣà which over time has a strong and formative effect on every dimension of...

Searching for Common Ground in the Study of Religion

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"Studying Religion Across the Disciplines" was a three-day conference that drew scholars from HDS, HBS, HLS, HKS, FAS, and scholars from other universities across the country to the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) with the intention of...