Past Events | Virginia Center for the Study of Religion

2022 May 15

Religion & the Culture of Democracy: "Figures of Authority: People, Texts, Traditions"
Sunday, May 15, 2022 (All day) to Friday, May 20, 2022 (All day)
2022 May 07

Religion and Democracy on the African Continent
Saturday, May 07, 2022 (All day) to Sunday, May 08, 2022 (All day)
2022 Apr 08

“Making Up Selves: The Operating Instructions”
Friday, Apr 08, 2022 (All day) to Saturday, Apr 09, 2022 (All day)
2022 Apr 06

"The State as Experiment: Visions, Voices, Margins" Conference
Wednesday, Apr 06, 2022 (All day) to Friday, Apr 08, 2022 (All day)
2022 Apr 02

"An Evening of Ghazals" with Pooja Goswami Pavan
07:00pm to 09:00pm
2021 Nov 10

Jalane Schmidt, "Amplifying Footnotes: Memory Production in Charlottesville"
12:00pm to 01:30pm
2021 Nov 03

Dr. James McHugh, “Reflections on the Study of Alcohol, Drugs, and Intoxication in India."
Wednesday, Nov 03, 2021, 05:00pm to Friday, Nov 05, 2021, 06:30pm
2021 Oct 29

Dr. Charles Mathewes, “The Future of American Christianity after the Religious Right”
03:00pm to 04:00pm
2021 Oct 27

Dr. Mohammed Rustom, “Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of ‘Ayn al-Qudat”
06:00pm to 07:00pm
2021 Apr 21

Gratitude and the Uncluttered Mind: 'Attar's 'Religion of Old Women'
12:00pm to 01:00pm
2021 Apr 14

Jon Butler, "God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan"
11:00am to 12:30pm
2021 Mar 31

Aaron Griffith, "God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America"
11:00am to 12:30pm
2021 Mar 22

Dr. Patricia Sauthoff, "Don't Try This At Home: The mercurial medicines of South Asian alchemy"
02:00pm to 04:00pm
2021 Mar 18

Jewish Green Philosophy: A Conversation on Ecology, Theology, and Jewish Thought
03:30pm to 05:30pm
2021 Mar 17

Shari Rabin, "Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth Century America"
11:00am to 12:30pm
2021 Mar 08

Dr. Elizabeth Cecil, "Building Śaivism in the Land of the Khmer: From Liṅga Mountain to Prosperous Lord"
02:00pm to 04:00pm
2021 Feb 24

Kathleen Sprows Cummings, "Gender, Sex, and Power: Toward a History of Clergy Sex Abuse in the US Catholic Church"
11:00am to 12:00pm
2021 Feb 22

Dr. Péter-Dániel Szántó, "Father and Sons: Khro phu lotsāba's Journey to Nepal during the End of the World"
12:30pm to 02:00pm
2020 Nov 11

Religious Studies Colloquium: Ashon Crawley, "A Proemium for Made Instrument"
12:00pm to 01:00pm
2020 Nov 11

VCAR: Pete Cajka on his forthcoming Follow Your Conscience: The American Catholic Church, War, Sex, and the Sixties
11:00am to 12:00pm
2020 Oct 21

VCAR: K. Healan Gaston on 'Imagining Judeo-Christian America'
11:00am to 12:00pm
2020 Oct 14

VCAR: John T. McGreevy Workshop on Forthcoming Book
11:00am to 12:00pm
2020 Oct 07

Religious Studies Colloquium: John Nemec, "Why Scholars Define 'Religion' Wrong & What We Can Do About It"
12:00pm to 01:30pm
2019 Oct 17

"Recent Research on Religion in Africa: Trends & Challenges"
03:30pm to 05:30pm
2019 Sep 18

Winnifred Sullivan, "The Church, The State, and The Corporation"
12:00pm to 01:00pm
2019 Sep 11

Anna Su, "The Unbearable Lightness of the Bladensburg Cross"
12:00pm to 01:00pm
2019 May 02

"Democracy, Religion, and the Market: A Conference"
Thursday, May 02, 2019, 07:30pm to Friday, May 03, 2019, 03:30pm
2019 Apr 11

Michael Gauvreau, "Catholicism, Quiet Revolution, and Quebec's Two Roads to Democracy 1930-1970"
12:30pm to 01:30pm
2019 Feb 12

Kathleen Caveny, "Thinking about Complicity: Wrongdoing in a Social Context"
07:00pm to 09:00pm
2019 Feb 08

Christopher Grasso, "Skepticism and American Faith"
12:00pm to 01:00pm