Religion alum Rachel Kohl Finegold (’03) becomes Montreal Orthodox shul’s first female clergy.
Montreal Orthodox shul hires first female clergy The Candian Jewish News Janice Arnold, Staff Reporter, Friday, April 12, 2013 Rachel Kohl Finegold MONTREAL — A woman will soon join the clergy of the Orthodox-practising Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, which has become the first synagogue to announce that it’s hiring a graduate from the inaugural class of […]
Steven Katz visits Europe
Steven T. Katz, CAS, Slater Professor of Jewish and Holocaust Studies (Religion Department) and Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies was recently invited to lecture in several European countries primarily in his role as Academic Advisor to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, a union of 31 countries that encourages Holocaust education, research […]
Frank Korom is to address the Bangla Academy in Dhaka, Bangladesh on the auspicious occasion of the Bengali New Year, which falls on April 15 this year.
The title of his talk will be “Sufis as Folk Preachers in South Asia: The Curious Case of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen,” the gist of which will be that Sufism is well-known as being a driving force for the growth and development of Islam in the Indian Subcontinent. Much less, however, is known about the actual mechanisms […]
Jonathan Klawans is promoted to full Professor of Religion
BU Today announced, March 1, 2013, that Jonathan Klawans has been promoted to full professor. Klawans is a leading scholar on ancient Judaism, and teaches courses on subjects ranging from the Hebrew Bible to the Dead Sea Scrolls to ancient Jewish history. His most recent book is Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism. “Outstanding […]
Frank Korom to speak on the the anthropology of disaster at the Anthropological Institute of Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan on March 16.
Singing about Disaster: How Oral Tradition Serves or Does Not Serve Governmentalities Drawing on Michel Foucault’s notion of gouvernementalité, here defined as the strategies utilized to render a given society governable, this lecture will explore how the vernacular bardic tradition of narrative picture painting has been co-opted and exploited by the state to convey ideological positions at times of […]
Monday, March 4th: Boston University Department of Religion Presents its 17th Annual Lecture
Jan. 29, Prof. Steven Prothero “Religion at the Smithsonian”
Prof. Elie Wiesel in BU Today
Prof. Elie Wiesel is in BU Today discussing his new novel, Memoir. Click here to read the full article.
Prof. Jonathan Klawans appears on “This American Life,” Show #480: Animal Sacrifice
Prof. Jonathan Klawans appeared on “This American Life,” Show #480: Animal Sacrifice, which debuted on November 30, 2012. Listen to Prof. Klawans on Public Radio’s “This American Life” http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/480/animal-sacrifice
Prof. Korom’s film “Hosay Trinidad” will be screeening at the Intimate Lens Ethnographic Film Festival in Italy next month.
Hosay Trinidad is an ethnographic film that explores how the Muharram rituals brought to the Caribbean by East Indian indentured laborers in the nineteenth century have adapted to the new environment in which they were transplanted. The film was made by Frank Korom and John Bishop (http://www.media-generation.net/) in collaboration with the Center for Folklife and […]