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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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Judaism was a civilization: toward a reconstruction of ancient Jewish peoplehood
(Wiley, 2018-10-01)Contemporary scholars of ancient Judaism struggle to describe Jewishness, recognizing that ancient Jewish concepts of social collectivity do not fully correspond with modern understandings of ethnicity, nationality, race, ... -
Elie Wiesel: the man and his legacy
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Torah als Staatsrecht? Epochen einer theologisch-politischen Idee
(Zentrum für Literatur und Kulturforschung, 2017)Bevor ich mich im Folgenden von Spinoza ausgehend der Frage des 'mischpat ivri' zuwende und die Frage stelle, welche Rolle die Idee der Torah als Staatsrecht im modernen Israel spielt, möchte ich kurz in Erinnerung rufen, ... -
Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in North America
(Oxford University Press, 2017-02-01)The history of religion in the United States cannot be understood without attending to histories of race, gender, and sexuality. Since the 1960s, social and political movements for civil rights have ignited interest in the ... -
Folkloristics and Indian folklore
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Introduction: Place, space and identity: the cultural, economic and aesthetic politics of Tibetan diaspora
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Something bigger than Girard
(2016-10-27)René Girard’s works on religion and violence remain important, above all, for having called attention to the question of religious violence well before the significance of this problem seemed obvious. Despite Girard’s ... -
The Essene Hypothesis: Insights from Religion 101
(2016-03-31)General insights from the discipline of religious studies may contribute to a better understanding of the Essene Hypothesis. In its “softer” form, the Essene hypothesis posits a sub-group relationship between the Qumran ... -
The pseudo-Jewishness of Pseudo-Phocylides
(2017-03)For over 150 years, The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides has been considered a Jewish work, though scholars have struggled to identify its purpose. This article revisits the question on definitional, evidentiary, and even ...
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