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Religion and Public Life series – Hussein Rashid. The methods of the Digital Humanities present an opportunity to think about the goals and methods  in the Study of Religion. The emergence of these new tools challenges the ways in which we consider academic work, and the premises around which Study of Religion is built. By broadening  the scope of what we can do with “religious” material, we can more broadly imagine what religion is.

More On That Now: A Spoleto Discussion Series | Spoleto Festival USA 2021

More On That Now: A Spoleto Discussion Series | Spoleto Festival USA 2021. The Crusades, 1000 years later  Tuesday, January 18, 2022  6:00pm ET  REGISTER  Registrants will receive an access link via email on the day of the discussion.  Test your historical knowledge: Who “won” the holy wars? It may come as no surprise to hear there are varying perspectives on the Crusades’s causes and repercussions. By some accounts, nation-states and Islam emerged, while other accounts describe a region ravished and sectarian. Dating back over a millennium, these conflicts are a foundational example of how religion and ideology have been…

Panel: Advancing Religious Literacies: Exploring Islam through the Cultural Studies Method

The loud discourse on Islam in the United States today marks Muslims as a threat, embroiled in pre-modern sensibilities, and unable to participate in democratic societies. These articulations are often made by recycling colonial and oriental images of Muslim women as oppressed and Muslim men as violent, with objects such as the hijab and the figure of the terrorist at the center. This rise of Islamophobic commentary has resulted in myriad incidences of bullying, teasing, and direct violence against teachers and students who identify, or are read by others, as Muslims. All this points to the lack of understanding about Islam and…