News

Lecture by Amir Syed

Wednesday, November 6th: Lecture by Amir Syed of The University of Pittsburgh: "The Realm of the Written: Textual Practice, Knowledge Transmission, and Scholarly Authority in 19th Century Islamic West Africa" November 6 | 4:30 pm | Swift Common Ro...

Faculty News & Spotlight

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...

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...

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...

Community

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...

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...

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,...

Buddhism

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.  ...

May the Course be With You

Martin Marty Center

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. ...