Department of Religious Studies
Events
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES EVENTS
FALL 2011
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Speaker |
Title of Event |
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 Multicultural Resource Center-EUC 4:00—5:00 pm |
Dr. Elizabeth Bucar, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, UNCG |
Book Discussion, “Creative Conformity: The Feminist Politics of US Catholic and Iranian Shi’I Women” “Many feminist scholarship has viewed Catholicism and Shi'i Islam as two religious traditions that, historically, have greeted feminist claims with skepticism or outright hostility. This book demonstrates how certain liberal secular assumptions about these religious traditions are only partly correct and, more importantly, misleading.” View flyer
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Thursday, September 15, 2011 136 Petty Science Building 6:30—9:30 pm |
Monasticism on Film Series led by Dr. Derek Krueger, Professor of Religious Studies, UNCG |
Into Great Silence (Die große Stille 2005 in French) A visually stunning, meditative documentary about a Carthusian Monastery in the mountains of southern France. View flyer |
Thursday, October 13, 2011 Foust 111 3:30 pm
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Dr. Charles Orzech, Professor of Religious Studies, UNCG |
Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia An informal talk on scholarly controversies concerning late Mahayana Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia. View flyer
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 136 Petty Science Building 7:00—9:30 pm |
Monasticism on Film Series led by Dr. Derek Krueger, Professor of Religious Studies, UNCG |
Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen ( 2009 in German) Screening followed by discussion. A biography of the great women’s monastic leader, theologian, poet, composer, and visionary. View flyer
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Thursday, October 20, 2011 Willow Room, EUC 11:30-2 pm |
Harvard Divinity School |
Recruiting Students for Graduate School If you are interested in attending Harvard Divinity School, please come to the Willow Room on 10/20 to meet with recruiters. See Flyer |
Thursday, October 20, 2011 Weatherspoon Art Museum 6:30 pm |
Dr. Gregory Grieve, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, UNCG
PUBLIC LECTURE
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“Liquid Selves: Buddhism, Desire and the Reality of Virtual Bodies” In conjunction with the exhibition, Persona: A Body in Parts, Greg Grieve discusses how religious practice is being reshaped through virtual religious communities. Grieve’s research project Liquid Zen analyzes Buddhist practice to reveal the shifting role the body plays in our constantly changing, mediated, hurried and uncertain culture. See flyer
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Thursday, November 17, 2011 136 Petty Science Building 7:00—9:30 |
Monasticism in Film Series led by Dr. Derek Krueger, Professor of Religious Studies, UNCG |
The Island (Ostrov, 2006 in Russian) Screening followed by discussion. In a small monastery in northern Russia a strange man’s bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future. See flyer
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New Publications:
Bucar, Elizabeth M. Creative Conformity: The Feminist Politics of U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'a Women. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2011.
Hart, William D. Afro-Eccentricity: Beyond the Standard Narrative of Black Religion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Orzech, Charles D. and Henrik Hjort Sorensen, and Richard Karl Payne. Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia. Leiden and Boston: E J Brill, 2011.
Adjunct Faculty Members for 2011/12
David McDuffie, ABD, Chapel Hill
S. Ayla Samli, PhD, Rice University
Awards:
Derek Krueger was appointed to the Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professorship at UNCG effective August 1, 2010.
Professor Orzech will be the Henry Luce Fellow at the National Humanities Center during the 2009-2010 year to complete a monograph, The Secrets of Three Mountains: Esoteric Buddhism in Continental East Asia, 755-1279. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/newsrel2009/prfells200910b.htm
Dr. Eugene Rogers, The Holy Spirit: Classic and Contemporary Readings (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
Dr. Charles D. Orzech was guest editor and a contributor to Pacific World: Special Issue Honoring James H. Sanford. Third Series, number 8, Fall 2006. (appeared May 2009) The volume includes 14 articles, and runs 297 pages.
Dr. William Hart, Black Religion: Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Other Items:
2. Charles D. Orzech is the General Editor of and a major contributor to Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia, published by E. J. Brill in December, 2010 (1200 pages). Forty-one scholars contributed to the volume.
3. Derek Krueger was appointed to the Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professorship at UNCG effective August 1, 2010.
4. Eugene Rogers' book Sexuality and the Christian Body was named to a list of "essential reading" in theology in the last 25 years by Christian Century. The list was chosen by five theologians each naming five books. Two of Dr. Rogers' students from UVA, Jay Carter and David Hart, also appeared on the list.