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Religion, Culture & Society

Past Events

Oct

22

Lecture

Heathen: Religion and Race in American History

Location:
HST 101
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Americans used to believe that much of the world was populated by “heathens.”  What did that view of the world entail? And what are the continuing repercussions on American ideas about race as a “heathen inheritance”?

Oct

9

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)
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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…