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Haunted Ramadan
Haunted Ramadan: Ghosts, Devils, and the Soul of Iranian Television: Professor Alireza Doostdar explores the popularity of the Ramadan spiritual show, as well as how its rise coincided with a much wider efflorescence of metaphysical and occult intere...
October 25, 2019
Lecture by Leora Batnizky
Wednesday, October 30th: Lecture by Leora Batnizky of Princeton University: "Perplexed by What? Guides to Modern Jewish Life from Krochmal to Leibowitz" Wednesday, October 30 | 4:30 pm | Swift Common Room (1st floor) Abstract: Scholars continue...
October 24, 2019
Profile: Kirsten Boswell-Ford
The Rev. Kirstin Boswell-Ford has the kind of cosmopolitan background and burnished university career to make even the most blasé take notice. Growing up, she lived on several continents, toiled in the corporate world before studying in the Master...
October 7, 2019
Profile: Viraj Patel
Viraj Patel has always been fascinated with – and frustrated by – the challenge of expressing a Hindu identity as an Indian-American. Even as a child growing up in the 1990s in a small town near Allentown, Pennsylvania, the first generation Indian...
October 7, 2019
2018-19 Alumni Citations Winners
The Alumni Citations, started in 2018, honor alumni for their accomplishments and service. The awards are intended to respond to timely events in a person’s life. Given these criteria, it is fitting indeed that the first-ever Alumni Citations were gi...
October 1, 2019
Joseph L. Price, 2019 Alumnus of the Year
In April 2019, the University of Chicago Divinity School was honored to introduce its 2019 Alumnus of the Year, Joseph (Joe) L. Price, MA’79, PhD’82. Professor Price is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies at Whittier College,...
September 27, 2019
The Jun Zhou Lectures on Theravada Buddhism
The Divinity School is pleased to offer a series of six lectures on various topics in Theravada Buddhism during the 2019-2020 academic year, supported through a generous gift by Mr. Jun Zhou. ...
September 25, 2019
Religions in the Americas Lecture by Christopher White
Christopher White, Vassar College, to lecture on Tues. Nov. 12: "Higher Dimensions, Fantastic Science, and the Modern Religious Imagination" part of our Religions in the Americas lecture series. ...
September 22, 2019
Religions in the Americas Lecture by Pamela Klassen
Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, to lecture on Tues. Nov. 5: "Recognizing Religion and Siting the Secular," part of our Religions in the Americas lecture series. ...