Events

Spring 2012

Friday, February 24, 2012
10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Judaica Show-and-tell Discussion
Specific location and information on parking provided upon RSVP.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7-9 p.m.
Film and Discussion, "The Struggle for Women's Equality at Jerusalem's Western Wall" Featuring "Praying in Her Own Voice"
Krannert Auditorium, Purdue University

Thursday, March 8, 2012
1:30 p.m.
The Evolutionary Psychology of Chinese Religion by Kelly James Clark
Kelly James Clark is professor of Philosophy, Calvin College, and program director of Values and Virtues in Contemporary China.  He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including The Story of Ethics and Return to Reason.
Co-Sponsored by Asian Studies Program, Psychologiical Sciences & Religious Studies

Autumn 2011

Religious Studies is the primary coordinator for a series of events commemorating the 400-year anniversary of the first publication of the King James Bible. In the works are a 100-minute dramatic reading of the KJV Gospel of Mark by a Chicago Shakespeare actor; a conference co-sponsored by Comparative Literature (thanks to the program's Director Charles Ross); and an exhibit by the Purdue Libraries Special Collections, with the support of PU Libraries Dean James Mullins.

Saturday, September 10, 2011
5:00-7:30 p.m.
Greet, Meet, and Eat for RS faculty, staff, majors, minors, and friends
Home of Director of Religious Studies, Angelica Duran
Co-sponsored by Religious Studies and the Religious Studies Student Association 

Thursday-Friday, September 22-24, 2011
9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Purdue Renaissance Comparative Prose Conference
Some highlights:
- Thursday, 9:30-10:20 a.m.,  Opening remarks by Ronald Corthell (PU-Calumet)
- Friday, 9:30-10:20 a.m., Keynote "'A Voice Crying in the Wilderness': The King James Bible and Native America" by Scott Stevens (Chicago Newberry Library-Indigenous Studies Center)
- Friday, 4:30-6:00 p.m., Performance of the Book of Mark by Purdue Theater members
Co-sponsored by Religious Studies, Comparative Literature, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, History and the PU Libraries

Tuesday, October 4, 2011
7:30-8:30 p.m.
Stewart Center, Room 202
The 4th Annual Larry Axel Memorial Lecture in Religion, "The King James Bible and the U.S. Populance"
Public lecture by Mark Noll (Notre Dame-History)
Co-sponsored by Religious Studies and Jewish Studies

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
University Hall, Room 319
"The Threefold Truth as the Basic Pattern for T'ien-t'ai Buddhist"
Public lecture by Paul Swanson, Permanent Fellow, The Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nanzan University
Co-sponsored by the Center on Religion & Chinese Society, Asian Studies and Religious Studies

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
7:00 p.m.
St. Thomas Aquinas Center
"The Future [Catholic] Church"
Public lecture by John Allen, Senior Correspondent, National Catholic Reporter
Co-sponsored by the Aquinas Educational Foundation and Religious Studies

 


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