Past Events

Oct

9

Lecture

Black Freedom & the Racialization of "Religious Excitement" in American Psychiatry

Location:

STEPS 101

October 9, 2024, 4:30 - 5:30pm

As the nineteenth century drew to a close, white American psychiatrists declared that mental illness among African Americans in the South had reached alarming proportions and argued that, in a notable percentage of these cases, “religious excitement” was the key…

Aug

31

Event

The Business of Bible - Benevolence: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves, by Prof. Jill Hicks-Keeton (University of Oklahoma)

Location:

Scheler Family Humanities Forum (Linderman 200)

August 31, 2023, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Abstract: The Bible is the Good Book. Everyone knows it—or at least that it commands such a reputation. Yet the Bible is not, as no book can be, a moral agent on its own. Bible interpreters work to make it so, through ongoing creative negotiations, rhetorical…

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Past Events

Oct

9

Black Freedom & the Racialization of "Religious Excitement" in American Psychiatry

Aug

31

The Business of Bible - Benevolence: How White Evangelicals Save the Bible to Save Themselves, by Prof. Jill Hicks-Keeton (University of Oklahoma)