Religion in the 21st Century: Renowned Scholar Jonathan Z. Smith to Lecture at CU
Jonathan Z. Smith, distinguished professor of religion at the University of Chicago, will visit CU April 12-13 as the Cox Family Visiting Scholar for 2010, hosted by the Department of Religious Studies. All are invited to a public lecture by Professor Smith, "Now you see it, now you won't: The Future of the Study of Religion over the Next 40 Years" on Tuesday, April 13, at 7pm in Humanities 150. Professor Smith will also participate in a roundtable discussion on Monday, April 12, from 3-5:30 pm in Old Main Chapel.
Jonathan Z. Smith's academic career at the University of Chicago has spanned more than forty years. For a dozen years he served as Dean of the College. As the Robert O. Anderson Professor of the Humanities, his consistently provocative work has deeply influenced the academic study of religion. Having powerfully shaped the last forty years of the study of religion, Smith's Cox Family Visiting Scholar Lecture embarks on the bold venture of charting the future of the study of religion over the next forty years. His distinguished career includes the publication of seminal works on religion including Map Is Not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions (1978), Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown (1982), To Take Place: Toward a Theory of Ritual (1987), and Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion (2004).