March 3: Bryan Turner (Sociology, The Graduate Center)
“Islamophobia versus Islamofascism: The Role of Advocacy Concepts in Sociology”

March 9: Shehzad Nadeem (Sociology, Lehman College and the Graduate Center)
“Bourgeois Bodies: How Yoga was Made Middle Class and Modern”

March 16: Jon Keller (Government, Manhattan Co…[Read more]

February 11th Graduate Student Workshop, featuring Kyle Francis and Jeffrey Culang with Anna Akasoy as respondent.  12:30-2 pm, room 5307

Abstracts

“Civilizing Settlers: Catholic Missionaries and France’s ‘Other Civilizing Mission’ in Colonial Algeria,” Kyle Francis

This paper examines the work of Catholic missionaries in the French…[Read more]

2015-2016 Committee for the Study of Religion Fellowship

Call for Mid-Career and Dissertation Fellowship Applications on the theme of “Successful Societies”

 DEADLINE for Doctoral Student and Mid-Career Faculty Applications: Monday, March 9th at noon.

The Committee for the Study of Religion invites applications from recently t…[Read more]

Wednesday March 25th, 12:30-2pm

Graduate Center, Room 5307

During the 1930s, Filipinos struggled over how and whether to integrate territory and people from “Non-Christian” areas into the newly emerging nation-state. Under US colonial rule, these regions had been managed separately from the rest of the archipelago. Begin…[Read more]

12:30-2pm, Graduate Center Room 5307

One of the big challenges posed by the arrival of Western modernity has been the role  assigned in it to the religious.   In this presentation I wish to discuss the relationship between religion and politics in dialogue with modernity during the l9th century in Chile, focusing on two problems: one, the poli…[Read more]

Friday, May 1st 2-5:30
CUNY Graduate Center
Room 5307

Ruth Marshall (University of Toronto), “Spiritual Warfare in the End Times: Evangelical Politics of Truth and Time”

Nerina Rustomji (St. John’s University), “The Houri Code: Online Jihadi and Feminist Interpretations on the Heavenly Virgins of Islamic Paradise”

Lynn R. Hub…[Read more]

Islam, in its many diverse forms, can conventionally be understood as holding a positive view on human sexuality. And in the same time, in many Muslim communities there are strong regulations of sexuality in […]

12.00-2.00 Workshop with history, sociology and Religion Committee.

Lunch provided. Potential Participants: Yuri Contreras-Vejar, Sarah Covington, Helena Rosenblatt, Bryan Turner

International Workshop: The Future of Religious Pluralism in Europe

Friday, May 17th – Saturday, May 18th 2013

Academic Direction: Volker Heins (KWI), Riem Spielhaus, (EZIRE)

Location: Institute for […]

Gender is one of the most salient features of religious movements and religious institutions. Women are the majority of participants in religious life and they are increasingly significant actors in […]

University of Göttingen – Transregional Research Network
Two Postdoctoral Fellows-Secularity and New Religiosities
The University of Göttingen is launching a transregional research network (CETREN) under the […]