Past Events
October 2014
Why Liberals Win: America’s Culture Wars from the Election of 1800 to Same-Sex Marriage |
Stephen Prothero
Piety On Time: The Sacrificial Calendar Of Archaic Miletus |
Alexander Herda
America and the Religion of No Religion: Or How We Got to “I Am Spiritual But Not Religious” and Why It Is Deeper Than You Think |
Jeffrey J. Kripal
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: Children in Buddhist Studies |
Prof. Vanessa Sasson
Islamic Bioethics: A Partnership between Religion and Science |
Prof. Abdulaziz Sachedina
September 2014
“Divided We Fall” Screening & Discussion |
with Filmmakers Valarie Kaur and Sharat Raju
August 2014
May 2014
Religion, Marriage, and Sexual Counterrevolutions |
Prof. Rebecca L. Davis
April 2014
The Education of Natives and the Enlightenment in Mexico |
Prof. Mónica Díaz
At SLU: "The Jesuits Shaped by the Chinese: The Case of Matteo Ricci" |
Prof. Nicholas Standaert
At SLU: "The Spiritual Exercises in China: Displacement and Encounters in Visual Meditation" |
Prof. Nicholas Standaert
The Clash Between Mythology and Reason in Paternal Recognition Narratives |
Prof. Wendy Doniger
March 2014
Change Your Brain by Transforming Your Mind |
Dr. Richard J. Davidson, William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at University of Wisconsin-Madison
FREE THE MIND: Can You Rewire the Brain Just by Taking a Breath? |
A documentary film by Phie Ambo
February 2014
What About the Establishment Clause? |
Guido Calabresi Lecture
Humanities Lecture Series - Mark Jordan |
Divine Beauty and Its Ghosts: Nietzsche, Weil, Foucault
November 2013
Danforth Distinguished Lecture Series: Prof. David A. Hollinger |
“Protestant Foreign Missions and Secularization in Modern America”
Beguines, Jews, and Friars: The Narrative of Urban Religion in Thirteenth-Century Europe |
Prof. John Van Engen
October 2013
'Rome' in the Nineteenth-Century Protestant Imaginary: American Professors, Ancient 'Pagans,' and Early Christianity |
Prof. Elizabeth Clark
Concerning ‘Goodbye Christ’: Langston Hughes, Political Poetry, and African American Religion During the Interwar Period |
Prof. Wallace Best
Collecting Kashmir: Buddhist Art in the Western Himalayas & Saint Louis |
Prof. Robert Linrothe