Center for Religion & the Human
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Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and IUB, the Center for Religion and the Human supports interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research on religion.
Indiana University Bloomington
Joined October 2019
IU Bloomington's Center for Religion and the Human receives three-year $750k grant from the Henry Luce Foundation (@HLuceFdn). Co-PIs Furey, Harriss, Imhoff, and Sullivan called it deeply affirming of the work they've done so far.
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This week we are celebrating American Religion going open access! Here is a selection of essays that you can now read online:
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New set of essays on The Abyss or Life Is Simple in the "Experimental books" forum, starting with @UChicagoPress editor Kyle Wagner, who brought this multi-authored text to press. Read his thoughts on scholarship and collective labor here:
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Before The Abyss or Life Is Simple came to my attention, Knausgaard’s My Struggle: Book 1 was a fixture on my “to read” list for several years. When deciding what...
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Muy invitados a este evento esta semana en @facisouniandes ⬇️ Un espacio de reflexión sobre las potencias ético-políticas de religiosidades populares en las luchas contra los racismos estructurales en las Américas, pero desde una perspectiva global... https://t.co/Be148c4Xlp
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The Center for Religion and the Human announces the winner of the 2023 Iris Book Award: Sarah McFarland Taylor's "Ecopiety: Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue." https://t.co/78JIbUQHvK
@lhsideris @HLuceFdn
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Congratulations to Sarah McFarland Taylor (@McfarlandTaylor)! Her book Ecopiety: Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue has won The Iris Book Award, given by the Center for Religion & the Human at Indiana University (@thehuman_iub).
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"On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell set fire to himself outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC." @WinniSullivan
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What if we understand Aaron Bushnell’s action as opening onto a different legal order—and collectivity—one to which we all also belong?
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Grantee Spotlight: @thehuman_iub at @IU_RelStud is home to several Luce-supported projects, including: 🔺 Being Human 🔺 @AmRelJournal 🔺 Noli Me Tangere Learn more here:
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The third volume in the Religion & the Human book series, now available in print and open-access:
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Human-caused extinctions have never been so prominent in our political and cultural landscape. Extinction and Religion is a collection of wide-ranging chapters that explore the implications for...
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Congratulations to Suzanne van Geuns for winning the @AmRelJournal dissertation prize for 2023! Studying characters from “seduction gurus” to incels in their online habitats, it theorizes the computational imagination and its hold over intimacy, hope, and desire.
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Check out the last article in our "American Religion Goes Abroad" series! @WinniSullivan explores the afterlife of Joan of Arc in the in the miniature art of American artist, Ray Materson https://t.co/pgP6oPFtIh
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by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
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Part of our Religion and the Human book series: "Much of what makes this book so engaging, thought-provoking, and beautiful stems from the reader’s own experience of interacting with the thoughtful juxtapositions of text, images, and design [...]"
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How can we foster a more inclusive, responsible, and communicative future? What if illustrated scholarship is one way to get there? Organized aroun...
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CRH Director Winni Sullivan responds to the Immanent Frame's forum on religious nationalisms. @ImmanentFrame @WinniSullivan
https://t.co/ggjempLW8P
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One of the interesting things about religious nationalisms is their interchangeablity. I remember reading Peter van der Veer’s book, Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India, when it came...
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Photos (and introduction) from Supplications, an exhibition of work from the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
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Photos from Noli Me Tangere, an art exhibition organized last spring by Jeremy Biles, Luca Fitzgerald, Ryan M. Pfeiffer + Rebecca Walz.
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We are pleased to announce that Mary-Jane Rubenstein's WORLDS WITHOUT END is the winner of the 2022 Iris Book Award from the Center for Religion and the Human at Indiana University. @thehuman_iub
https://t.co/wHZPKx73SQ
#AwardWinner #Philosophy
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Noli Me Tangere contributor Elaine Monaghan reads "Song For a Massacre Survivor" as part of the Mississippi University for Women's MFA reading:
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An opinion piece by Nadia Marzouki, one of the core researchers in the Center for Religion & the Human's "Unstately Black Religion: A Three-Year Study." @nadiamarzouki1 @HLuceFdn
nytimes.com
What’s happening to Tunisia is a tragedy.
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In the latest Engaging Religion essay, SJ Crasnow takes up “queer failure” in the classroom, pregnancy, and Jewish identity, showing us how failure “can also spur the creation of something new and vitally needed.”
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New Books Network interview with editors Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd for their volume At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion (Columbia University Press, 2021) now live. @WinniSullivan @eshurd
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