New Mellon-funded program led by UF Religion faculty, graduate students

The University of Florida (UF) Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere launched its Intersections Research-Into-Teaching Grants earlier this year, made possible with $400,000 in funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Awards of $30,000 were given to four Intersections Groups of UF faculty and staff working together across disciplines on researching and addressing […]

Hindu Views on God and World: Sankara, Sridhara Svamin, and Jiva Gosvamin.

Professor Jonathan Edelmann will give a public lecture at the University of Florida’s Undergraduate Philosophy Society in the Department of Philosophy on October 30, 2018, Tuesday, 6:30-8:00 pm. The lecture will be held in the Department of Philosophy’s Library in Griffin-Floyd Hall. This includes a lecture, questions and answers, and dinner. The title of his […]

A Buddhist Theory of Film

Professor Mario Poceski is organizing a visiting lecture by Professor Francisca Cho, Georgetown University. Title: “A Buddhist Theory of Film” Date: October 4, 2018 (Thursday) Time: 2:00-3:30 pm Place: 215 Dauer Hall Abstract: The relationship between Buddhism and Film is often defined in terms of how films depict Buddhists and Buddhism to a broad Western […]

The Subjunctive Mood: Exploring Fictive Sufi Discourse in Early Modern Bengal

The Center for the study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra) is pleased to announce a lecture by Professor Tony Stewart, Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of Asian Studies and Islamic Studies and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University. Professor Stewart’s talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Global Islamic Studies. The title of his […]

Dancing Siva Never Dances Alone: UF Dissertation Project Receives Tedder Funding

Jodi Shaw (Ph.D. Candidate, Asia) is currently an American Institute of Indian Studies Language Fellow (2017-2018) studying Tamil in South India. This is in preparation for her upcoming research in the fall of 2018 when she will travel to Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu in order to gather oral stories, as well as visit the archives of […]

Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt: Media, Intellectuals and Society

THE CENTER FOR GLOBAL ISLAMIC STUDIES, IN COOPERATION WITH THE CENTER FOR AFRICAN STUDIES PRESENTS: DR. HATSUKI AISHIMA “PUBLIC CULTURE AND ISLAM IN MODERN EGYPT: MEDIA, INTELLECTUALS AND SOCIETY” Tuesday, November 28th, 2017; 3:30PM 404 Grinter Hall Abstract: Hatsuki Aishima explores what it means to be “cultured” and “middle class” for Egyptian Muslims, which, as […]

Religion in the News: October 20, 2017

For this week’s Religion in the News stories, we didn’t have to look far. All we had to do was focus on our top-notch faculty as they address critical issues and important events in religion and culture. Take a look at their religion and news commentaries and analysis below: Religion prof Explains diwali holiday (UF […]

Do Young Democrats Even Care About Religion?

The 2016 primaries have been full of religious rhetoric, be it pandering to a specific religious group or promoting fear of another. With this being the case, it can be expected to play a big role in the presidential election. The Republican Party is often conjured as being representative of the “Christian Right” while the […]

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