Center for Culture, Society and Religion Princeton University

Transcending Turmoil: Daoism Lecture by Franciscus Verellen, May 6 The Tang – Five Dynasties Transition in the Daoist Testimony of Du Guangting (850-933) https://ccsr.princeton.edu/events/2024/transcending-turmoil-verellen

Today is the day! Join us in person or online: https://ccsr.princeton.edu/events/2024/trans-talmud

Trans Talmud: Conversation with Max Strassfeld 4/16 - Rescheduled from 3/5! Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away, Max K. Strassfeld argues that they profoundly shaped ideas in rabbinic law.

Thích Nhất Hạnh and the Peace Movement: The Making of a Buddhist Superstar 4/15 with Alec Soucy. This talk will look at the relationship between Thích Nhất Hạnh and the peace movement in the West and will show how this connection was behind his rise to international prominence. https://ccsr.princeton.edu/events/2024/bsw-soucy

"Transcending Turmoil" Lecture by Franciscus Verellen 5/6
The Tang – Five Dynasties Transition in the Daoist Testimony of Du Guangting (850-933)
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Interested in why Islam is considered anti-Black? Today: Jonathan Brown in conversation with Hasan Hameed on "Islam and Anti-Blackness." Join us at Princeton or online: ccsr.princeton.edu

Why is Islam accused of being anti-Black? Come hear Professor
Jonathan A.C. Brown in conversation with Grad Fellow Hasan Hameed: 4/3, 5 pm @ Princeton or online:

Islam and Antiblackness: Religion and the Public Conversation with Jonathan Brown Jonathan Brown is the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He received his BA in History from Georgetown University in 2000 and his doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 2006. Dr....

Tickets available for "Imagining the Indian" The Fight against Native American Mascoting: Film Screening on 3/27 at the Princeton Garden Theatre This documentary follows the struggle to end the appropriation of Native American names and imagery by U.S. sports franchises, contextualizing these efforts within the long history of stereotypes, terms, and images hurtful to Native people.

Imagining the Indian This documentary follows the struggle to end the appropriation of Native American names and imagery by U.S. sports franchises, contextualizing these efforts within the long history of stereotypes, terms, and images hurtful to Native people. This indigenous protest movement is framed within a larger....

Did you know that we've begun a Black Buddhism Faculty Project? With Wayne Bivens-Tatum, Librarian for Philosophy, Religion, & Anthropology at the Princeton University Library,
we've created a research guide to Black Buddhism. Check it out: https://csr.princeton.edu/projects/black-buddhism-faculty-project

Winner of the AAR award in textual studies, Trans Talmud was acclaimed by the jury for "its daring interrogation of the tradition to forge new ways of thinking about an important topic." On 3/5 hear MaxStrassfeld discuss his book with Eliav Grossman: https://ccsr.princeton.edu/events/2024/trans-talmud-strassfeld

Today! The 2024 Doll Lecture on Religion and Money:
Andrea Jain asks, What happens when we show a film that pays worshipful attention to animal welfare to a Marvel Studios-sized audience? Join in person or online:

“Into the Forever and Beautiful Sky”: Confronting Animal Brutality in a Galaxy of Limitless Capitalism Andrea Jain asks, What happens when we show a film that pays worshipful attention to animal welfare to a Marvel Studios-sized audience? How does capitalism colonize the popular imagination, religious and otherwise? Lifting up the Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 as her primary artifact, Jain uses the....

Did you miss Janet Gyatso's lecture on Buddhist Practice Theory and Animal Ethics from last week? Watch it here: https://ccsr.princeton.edu/media-library/yin-cheng-gyatso

In today's Yin-Cheng lecture, Janet Gyatso seeks to mobilize resources from Buddhist traditions in the quest to end the current holocaust being visited upon farmed animals by humans today. Join us at 4:30 pm: https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2024/yin-cheng-gyatso

Are you a new PhD with interest and expertise in public-facing scholarship on religion? Apply for our Postdoc in Religion and the Public Conversation! Deadline 2/15. https://csr.princeton.edu/news/2023/apply-postdoc

In this 2/15 hybrid lecture, Janet Gyatso seeks to mobilize practical resources from Buddhist traditions to end the current holocaust being visited upon farmed animals by humans today.
Brook Ziporyn will respond. https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2024/yin-cheng-gyatso

Our Fellows are pretty awesome. Apply to join us! We're hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Religion and the Public Conversation for Fall '24. Application deadline Feb. 15. https://csr.princeton.edu/news/2023/apply-postdoc

Attention Princeton students, faculty, and fellows! The Washington Post's Maham Javaid will offer a Toolkit workshop on 2/1: How to Win over a Journalist in 10 Minutes. https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2024/toolkit-javaid

CCSR invites applications for a Postdoc in Religion and the Public Conversation! Recent PhD in the study of religion in any discipline, should display interest and expertise in public-facing scholarship on religion; to pursue independent research and work with the Religion and the Public Conversation Media Team. App deadline 2/15/24. Full details here: https://csr.princeton.edu/news/2023/apply-postdoc

Congrats to all the winners of the American Society of Church History book awards, but especially Kathryn Gin Lum, who was awarded the Philip Schaff prize for her 2022 Heathen! https://churchhistory.org/asch-awards/asch-prizes-2023/

"Vodou is revolutionary love. Vodou defies gender and s*xual boundaries. Vodou is pro-Black. Vodou is anti-White supremacy. . . Vodou is a religion in the present with boundaryless futures." Today hear Eziaku Nwokocha in conversation with Manbo Maude Evans and Mélena Laudig at 4:30 pm in Friend 008.

Vodou en Vogue with Eziaku Nwokocha and Manbo Maude Evans Eziaku Nwokocha is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami and the author of Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States. Prof. Nwokocha and Vodou Manbo Maude Evans will be in conversation with CCSR Graduate Student Fellow Mélena Laudig. In...

Mark your calendar: 10/26! Vodou en Vogue with Eziaku Nwokocha and Manbo Maude Evans, hosted by Mélena Laudig. A conversation about the vibrant connections between the spirits and Black Vodou practitioners’ lives, manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession.

Today at noon! How did Reagan promote his Evangelical vision for the country? With a little help from the media, argues Diane Winston. Info and zoom link: https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2023/righting-american-dream

Today!!! Sarah Imhoff highlights the complicated and at times conflicting connections between the body, q***rness, disability, religion, and nationalism. Attend "Disability, Embodiment, and the Limits of Knowledge" at 4:30 pm when CCSR Fellow Lauren McCormick will talk with Sarah Imhoff about her recent book on Jessie Sampter and what we can learn from the complex life of this q***r, disabled Zionist. https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2023/rpc-sarah-imhoffToday!!! Sarah Imhoff highlights the complicated and at times conflicting connections between the body, q***rness, disability, religion, and nationalism. Attend "Disability, Embodiment, and the Limits of Knowledge" at 4:30 pm when CCSR Fellow Lauren McCormick will talk with Sarah Imhoff about her recent book on Jessie Sampter and what we can learn from the complex life of this q***r, disabled Zionist. https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2023/rpc-sarah-imhoffToday!!! Sarah Imhoff highlights the complicated and at times conflicting connections between the body, q***rness, disability, religion, and nationalism. Attend "Disability, Embodiment, and the Limits of Knowledge" at 4:30 pm when CCSR Fellow Lauren McCormick will talk with Sarah Imhoff about her recent book on Jessie Sampter and what we can learn from the complex life of this q***r, disabled Zionist. https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2023/rpc-sarah-imhoffToday!!! Sarah Imhoff highlights the complicated and at times conflicting connections between the body, q***rness, disability, religion, and nationalism. Attend "Disability, Embodiment, and the Limits of Knowledge" at 4:30 pm when CCSR Fellow Lauren McCormick will talk with Sarah Imhoff about her recent book on Jessie Sampter and what we can learn from the complex life of this q***r, disabled Zionist. https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2023/rpc-sarah-imhoffToday!!! Sarah Imhoff highlights the complicated and at times conflicting connections between the body, q***rness, disability, religion, and nationalism. Attend "Disability, Embodiment, and the Limits of Knowledge" at 4:30 pm when CCSR Fellow Lauren McCormick will talk with Sarah Imhoff about her recent book on Jessie Sampter and what we can learn from the complex life of this q***r, disabled Zionist. https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2023/rpc-sarah-imhoff

Sarah Imhoff highlights the complicated and at times conflicting connections between the body, q***rness, disability, religion, and nationalism. Attend "Disability, Embodiment, and the Limits of Knowledge" at 4:30 pm when CCSR Fellow Lauren McCormick will talk with Sarah Imhoff about her recent book on Jessie Sampter and what we can learn from the complex life of this q***r, disabled Zionist. https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2023/rpc-sarah-imhoff

Unfortunately, Andrea Jain's lecture scheduled for tomorrow, 9/27, has been postponed. We hope to post a new date for this event in the coming days.

Andrea Jain asks, What happens when we show a film that pays worshipful attention to animal welfare to a Marvel Studios-sized audience? 9/27/23: Doll Lecture on Religion and Money: "Into the Forever and Beautiful Sky" Confronting Animal Brutality in a Galaxy of Limitless Capitalism. https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2023/doll-andrea-jain

Today! Come hear Janet Jakobsen in conversation with Graduate Fellow Emma Thompson at 4:30 pm. Can't attend in person? Register for the livestream: https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2023/s*x-obsession-jakobsen

Why is s*x such an explosive political issue? Because religion, right? Not so fast, says Janet Jakobsen. Come hear more Wed 9/13 at 4:30 pm:

The S*x Obsession: Religion and the Public Conversation with Janet Jakobsen Religion is a force to be reckoned with in political debates over s*x, but Janet Jakobsen decisively breaks with the common sense that religion and s*x are the fixed binary of American political life. She instead follows the kaleidoscopic ways in which s*xual politics are embedded in social relation...

Register today for "Thinking through Minshū Bukkyō: Popular Buddhism and the Study of Premodern Japan"! https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2023/minshu-bukkyo

Religion is a force to be reckoned with in political debates over s*x, but Janet Jakobsen decisively breaks with the common sense that religion and s*x are the fixed binary of American political life.
We're so excited for our first event of the academic year! On Wed 9/13 @4:30 pm Emma Thompson will interview Janet Jakobsen about her new book: The S*x Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics. https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2023/s*x-obsession-jakobsen