religious studies

Deepak Sarma, professor of religious studies and bioethics, will give a lecture titled “Gestational Surrogacy and Hindu Bioethics: The Karma of Genetics and the Genetics of Karma” Wednesday, Sept. 18, from noon to 1 p.m. in Biomedical Research Building, Room TA200. About the talk While a great dea...

As soon as Joy Bostic heard Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy award-winning album DAMN., she knew she had to develop a class around it. It became the basis for her well-received “Religion and Popular Culture” course. “He was speaking to so many feelings I was having, and I really understood he’s speaking to ...

Timothy Beal, the Florence Harkness Professor of Religion and chair of the Department of Religious Studies, wrote about the connection between horror films and religion, showing how scary movies may actually support central ideas of religion. The piece, titled “The Horror: Religion and the Monstrou...

Department of Religious Studies Chair Timothy Beal’s recent book, The Book of Revelation: A Biography, was recently reviewed by Inside Higher Ed. The review described how Beal’s book details the perception of The Book of Revelation and how he addressed the Revelation’s impact on art and entertainme...

While growing up in Alaska, Timothy Beal was steeped in a conservative evangelical community with a fondness and fear of Revelation, the last book of the Bible offering a potent brew of hellfire and redemption through a thick tangle of verses violent, bewildering and poetic. By adulthood, Beal—chai...

Deepak Sarma, professor in the Department of Religious Studies, will give a lecture on the fundamentals of Hindu bioethics. He also will discuss a related case, for which he was an expert consultant. The case considers the bioethical concerns related to a case in which an infant—the child of Hindu ...

The Judaic Studies Program will host “A Conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi, Author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor” Thursday, Oct. 25, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Empathizing with Palestinians and unraveling his complex, wide-ranging feelings as a Jew living in Israel, journali...

When looking at the cover of the Grateful Dead’s self-titled first album, Deepak Sarma, professor of religious studies, recognized the image of Yoga-Narasimha, an avatar of the Hindu god Visnu. He investigated the imagery in an op-ed titled “A long strange trip: Exploring how Yoga-Narasimha landed o...

Editor's note: This event has been postponed to a later date. Albert J. Raboteau, the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion Emeritus at Princeton University, will deliver the Ratner Family Lecture in Religion Wednesday, March 21, at 4:30 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, ballroom C. Rabotea...

The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women invites the Case Western Reserve University community to the first event in its Spotlight on Women's Research series, featuring Justine Howe, assistant professor of religious studies. Howe will give a lecture titled “All-American Islam: Leisure and Parenting ...