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The Religious Studies Department is proud to be involved with three ongoing lecture series, the Rockwell Lectures, the Burkitt Lectures, and the Dugan Lecture Series. More information about each of these is available at left.

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Below is a rolling calendar of the Department's Events. Please join us!

 

 

CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS SPRING, 2010


BURKITT PUBLIC LECTURE,  April 15, 7:30-9 p.m.
Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library

Kocku von Stuckrad, University of Groningen
“The Esoteric Quest and Western Culture”

 

 Related—Rockwell Symposium
“Hidden God,  Hidden Histories”

 see  hyperlink  for full Symposium program in Adobe Acrobat format

 see  hyperlink   for  detailed Symposium schedule in Adobe Acrobat format

 

DOCTORAL DEFENSES

 

Thesis Defense Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Religious Studies

Speaker:

Hua-Chen Lin
Doctoral Candidate

 

Crushed Pearls: The Revival and Transformation of the Buddhist Nuns’ Order in Taiwan

Monday, April 5, 2010
9:00 AM  to 11:00 AM

215  Humanities Building

Speaker:

Torin Alexander
Doctoral Candidate

 

"What Meaneth This?":  A Postmodern 'Theory' of African American Religious Experience

Monday, April 5, 2010
1:00 PM  to 3:00 PM

215  Humanities Building

Speaker:

ChingHui Ying
Doctoral Candidate

 

Being and Knowing in Wholeness: Chinese Chan, Tibetan Dzogchen, and the Logic of Immediacy in Contemplation

Monday, April 12, 2010
2:30 PM  to 4:30 PM

215  Humanities Building

Speaker:

Andrea Jain
Doctoral Candidate

 

Health, Well-Being, and the Ascetic Ideal: Modern
Yoga in the Jain Terapanth

Monday, April 12, 2010
10:00 AM

215  Humanities Building