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Religion matters more than ever today, inspiring individuals both to make peace and to commit unspeakable violence. It transforms cultures and societies and is transformed by them. The Department of Religion at BU explores religion in its many manifestations, offering undergraduate students opportunities for broad-based study of religious traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the religions of Africa, China, and Japan; related literatures; and theoretical and philosophical problems in the study of religion. The department’s Division of Religious & Theological Studies offers MA and PhD programs in twelve areas of specialization in three subject areas: Religious Texts and Traditions; Religion, Philosophy, and Ethics; and Religion, Culture, and Society.
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Department chair: David Frankfurter
Campus address: 145 Bay State Road
Phone: 617-353-2635
Fax: 617-358-3087
Website: www.bu.edu/religion
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Symposium: the achievement of David Martin
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-04)This brief introduction notes some of the salient aspects of David Martin’s career and thought. It further presents and frames the following eight essays in this symposium devoted to different aspects of David Martin’s work. -
The world according to Ghanaram: a partial translation of his Gitarambha
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Sex, art, and moral panic
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Religious nationalisms compared: the curious cases of India and Serbia
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A Persian period bulla from Tel Qedesh, Israel and its implications for relations between Tyre and Nippur
(American Schools of Oriental Research, 2019-11-01)In the 1999 season of excavation at Tel Qedesh, in northern Israel, a small, perfectly intact stamped bulla dating to the Persian period was found. The bulla originally sealed a papyrus document. Thanks to its excellent ... -
At home on board: the Kyrenia ship and the goods of its crew
(Phoibos Verlag, Vienna, 2019-11-01)The Kyrenia Ship, discovered in 1964 largely intact one mile north of the northern Cypriot town of Kyrenia, is still the best preserved small Greek merchant ship ever found. Its cargo included about 400 amphoras, most from ... -
A putative (private) life of Hannah Arendt. Bio-portraiture as performance in the work of Miriam Shenitzer
(2019-12-02)The paper uses tropes culled from several of Hannah Arendt's works, as well as Rebecca Schneider's performance-theoretical considerations on "reenactment", to analyze the work of artist Miriam Shenitzer, specifically a ... -
Pottery in the computer age
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The “Great War” and the Jewish people: a review essay
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-05-01)
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