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Critical Public Theology: How to Use and Not to Use the Bible in Contemporary Public Issues

Berkeley Public Theology Program

March 07, 2019 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
340 Moffitt Library

Konrad Schmid, Professor of Old Testament Science and Early Jewish Religious History, University of Zürich

The Bible sometimes plays a major role in current, political discourses, especially in the United States. As a project, public theology supports efforts to let the Bible speak to contemporary, public concerns. But using the Bible in this way involves many potential traps. How can a 2000 year old book provide guidance for social and […]

Critical Public Theology: How to Use and Not to Use the Bible in Contemporary Public Issues

Building Bridges in Interfaith Communities II: Mercy

Berkeley Public Theology Program

May 18, 2018 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / Add to Google
282 Dwinelle Hall

ABSW Chapel

This event is part of the Berkeley Public Theology Program series Sacred Texts, Public Talks. These meetings bring together diverse scholars to discuss key religious issues in a public setting. They are co-hosted in partnership with area organizations, and take place off the Berkeley campus. Their aim is to unsettle both sacred and secular commonplaces, […]

Building Bridges in Interfaith Communities II: Mercy

Building Bridges in Interfaith Communities I: Sacrifice

Berkeley Public Theology Program

May 17, 2018 / 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm / Add to Google
282 Dwinelle Hall

ABSW Chapel

This event is part of the Berkeley Public Theology Program series Sacred Texts, Public Talks. These meetings bring together diverse scholars to discuss key religious issues in a public setting. They are co-hosted in partnership with area organizations, and take place off the Berkeley campus. Their aim is to unsettle both sacred and secular commonplaces, […]

Building Bridges in Interfaith Communities I: Sacrifice

Thinking about Science, Religion, and Secularism

Berkeley Public Theology Program

April 27, 2018 / 9:00 am - 5:00 pm / Add to Google
3335 Dwinelle

All-Day Workshop

This workshop gathers scholars whose work engages both the study of religion and secularism, and the study of modern science. These two fields of inquiry have contributed significantly to current academic understandings of modernity, yet are rarely put into explicit conversation. At the same time, questions of science and religion are regularly taken up by […]

Thinking about Science, Religion, and Secularism

A White Stone for Belfast: One Take on Religious Politics

Berkeley Public Theology Program
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April 17, 2018 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
3335 Dwinelle

Robert Orsi, Professor of Religious Studies and History and Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies, Northwestern University

This lecture asks what “religious” politics might be given the deconstruction of the concept of “religion” that has taken place over the past several decades, which has uncovered its implicit social, legal, and political agendas from early modernity forward. It takes as its starting point an experience Anglican sisters had in Belfast at the height […]

A White Stone for Belfast: One Take on Religious Politics

A Sacred Space is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism

Berkeley Public Theology Program
Co-sponsored Event

April 11, 2018 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
3335 Dwinelle

Victoria Smolkin, Assistant Professor of History, Wesleyan University

When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools — from education to propaganda to terror — to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly […]

A Sacred Space is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism

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