sponsored and co-sponsored lectures of 2000-2001

Sensing the Sacred: Bodily Experience and Bodily Knowing in Ancient Christianity

Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Brown University)

Thursday 19 October 2000 at 5:00 p.m., Seelye 106 

Lecture followed by dinner with majors and minors at the Club

Supernatural Powers in Early Japanese Zen

Dr. Carl Bielefeldt, Professor of Japanese Buddhism, Stanford, and Numata Visiting Professor at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard

Monday 30 October, 4:30 p.m. in Seelye 201

The Sacrifice of Isaac and Biblical Ethics

John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation, Yale University Divinity School

Thursday 9 November, 4:30 p.m. in Seelye 207

 
Illness and Healing in Premodern Russian Orthodoxy

Eve Levin, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University

Tuesday 5 December, 5:00 p.m. in Seelye 207

sponsored and co-sponsored lectures of 1999-2000

Life in a Korean Zen Monastery

Robert E. Buswell, Jr.

 

Monday April 17

Seelye 201 4:30 p.m.

The Soul of John Paul II

George Weigel

April 4, 5:00

Neilson Browsing Room

A Thousand Arms and a Thousand Bowls: Tantric Cosmology, Tantric Theology, and Tantric Yoga in Medieval China

Robert Gimello, Harvard University

Monday, March 20

4:15 pm Seelye Hall 201

American Religion: A Symposium on the State of the Field

co-sponsored with the Program in American Studies

  • It's Good, But is it History? The Cultural Turn in the Study of American Religions

by Robert Orsi, Indianna University

  • Getting "Spiritual" about "Religion" and "Religious" about "Spirituality": American Trends and Urgencies

by Martin Marty, University of Chicago

  • From the Salem Witch Trials to Black Elk: American Religion in the Liberal Arts Curriculum

by Ann Braude, Harvard Divinity School

  • American Religion as Seen Through a Comparative and Cross-Cultural Kaleidoscope

by Jay Demerath, University of Massachusetts, Amherst




Romila Thapar, Neilson Professor
Time, Place, and Topics

April 8, 1999
Jean Elshtain
How should we talk? Reflections on Religious Discourse in the Public Square
Thursday, April 8
7:30 p.m.
Neilson Browsing Room
Co-sponsored with American Studies

April 15, 1999
Ann Ramsey, Class of 1972
Measuring the Cultural Stakes in Political Conflict: The Case of the Catholic League in Paris
co-sponsored with the History Department

1997: A Symposium | The Dead Sea Scrolls

Bruce Dahlberg's Retirement Party