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The Religion in Culture Lectures

A complete set of framed flyers for this lecture series hangs in the Department's seminar room.

The Religion in Culture Lecture Series, named after the Department's motto and inaugurated in November of 2001, is one of two lecture series hosted by the Department--the other being the annual Aronov Lecture. The Department also hosts a Religion in Culture Lunch Series.

The Religion in Culture series provides a venure for local and visiting scholars to address the role played by religious beliefs and practices in creating and contesting culture.

As opposed to seeing religion as set apart and periodically interacting with items of culture--as typically implied by the more common "religion and culture"--this lecture series highlights the manner in which those behaviors and institutions named as religion are elements of ordinary cultural practices. As made evident in the Department's motto, the focus of this lecture series is therefore religion in culture, in history, and in context.

Learn more about the Department's motto.

Although one goal of this lecture series is to invite scholars from our own campus, working in cognate disciplines, to share their current research with our students and faculty, the Religion in Culture lecture series also hosts scholars from other universities.

This series has been greatly assisted by funds available through the College of Arts & Sciences' Anonymous Lecture Fund for the Humanities.

For information on these and other public events sponsored by the Department--all of which are free of charge and open to the general public--please check here.