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The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment

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April 25, 2018 / 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm / Add to Google
3335 Dwinelle

Alexander Bevilacqua, Assistant Professor of History, Williams College

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding of Islamic civilization. These men produced the first accurate translation of the Qur’an into a European language, mapped the branches of the Islamic arts and sciences, and wrote Muslim history using Arabic sources. The Republic […]

The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment

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

Berkeley Public Theology Program
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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

Towards a Subaltern History of the Crusades?

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April 09, 2018 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
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Christopher J. Tyerman, Oxford University Professor of the History of the Crusades

Lecture details are forthcoming. Christopher J. Tyerman is Professor of the History of the Crusades at Oxford University. Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Program in Medieval Studies

Towards a Subaltern History of the Crusades?

Politics of Religion in Post-Coup Turkey

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March 19, 2018 / 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm / Add to Google

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Yunus Doğan Telliel, Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Theology

While there remain many unanswered questions regarding the July 2016 coup attempt, most Turkish citizens seem to agree with the government that putschists were linked to Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet movement. Although the government was decisive about what some call “de-Gülenification” in state and private sectors, the possibility of a coup organized by a […]

Politics of Religion in Post-Coup Turkey

The "Protestant" Impulse in Modern Islamic Thought

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March 08, 2018 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
10 Stephens Hall

The subject of this talk is Islamic modernism (1840-1940), the religio-political movement that first attempted to reconcile Islam in the modern period with western values, such as secularism, modern science, democracy, and women’s rights. This movement coincided with the dissolution of Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid empires, and the consolidation of British and French rule in […]

The "Protestant" Impulse in Modern Islamic Thought

Leaving Religion and Losing Culture: Secular Conversion among Hispanic Freethinkers, Black Atheists, and Ex-Muslims

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March 01, 2018 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
220 Stephens Hall

Joseph Blankholm, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara

The line between religion and culture is difficult to draw. When people leave religion and become secular, they often sacrifice parts of their culture that have been tied to their religion. Relying on years of ethnographic research among avowedly secular people, Blankholm argues that becoming secular is a transformative process akin to conversion, and that […]

Leaving Religion and Losing Culture: Secular Conversion among Hispanic Freethinkers, Black Atheists, and Ex-Muslims

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