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Bron Taylor gives lecture on “Dark Green Religion”

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Bron Taylor gives lecture on “Dark Green Religion” Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 11/10/2009 - 00:00

Professor Bron Taylor of the Department of Religion at the University of Florida was the guest of our Department from November 10-13, 2009. The centerpiece of his visit was his well-attended lecture for the University and larger community on his newly released book, Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (University of California Press, 2009). Professor Taylor's work on religion and the environment was presented to graduate and undergraduate students in the Department as well as to faculty and students in the Departments of Environmental Studies and Journalism.

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Loriliai Biernacki Wins Kayden Award, Organizes Conference at CU-Boulder on “Sex and Texts”

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Loriliai Biernacki Wins Kayden Award, Organizes Conference at CU-Boulder on “Sex and Texts” Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 10/15/2009 - 00:00

On October 15-16th, 2009, Loriliai Biernacki organized a conference, "Sex and Texts: Representations of Sexuality in Asian Religious Traditions," sponsored by the Kayden Award and the Center for Asian Studies. This conference addresses the relationships between sexuality and religious textual traditions, especially focusing on Asian scriptural texts. The conference began with a symposium on Loriliai Biernacki's Renowned Goddess of Desire: Women, Sex and Speech in Tantra (2008), which won the Kayden Award in 2008. This topic ties into the larger conference addressing representations of sexuality across a range of scriptural sources in different Asian religions, including Buddhism in China, India and Tibet, Hinduism and Daoism. Asian religious traditions typically present greater latitude in the expression of sexuality, evidenced in, for instance, the variety of esoteric traditions that explicitly involve sexuality. This conference offered the opportunity for comparative scope, bringing together specialists across traditions to address this understudied topic. Presenters included Constantina Rhodes, Kerry Skora, Ron Davidson, Judith Simmer Brown of Naropa University in Boulder, Steve Berkwitz, David Germano, Terry Kleeman (Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, CU) and the Department’s own Holly Gayley.

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Amy Hollywood is Department of Religious Studies Lester Lecturer for 2009

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Amy Hollywood is Department of Religious Studies Lester Lecturer for 2009 Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 09/01/2009 - 00:00

In September 2009, the Department sponsored Amy Hollywood, the Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard University Divinity School, as its 2009 Lester Lecturer. Hollywood is a historian of Christian thought specializing in mysticism, with strong interests in feminist theory, queer theory, psychoanalysis, and continental philosophy. She is the author of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart (University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), which received the International Congress of Medieval Studies' Otto Grundler Prize for the best book in medieval studies, and Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (University of Chicago Press, 2002), and is currently co-editing the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism and completing a book of essays to be called "Acute Melancholia." Dr. Hollywood's talk, “Love and the Heretic,” addressed issues of love, death and desire in Christian mysticism through the interweaving of medieval women’s and men’s mystical texts and her own reflections on love, politics, and the study of religion. Both the lecture and a discussion with Dr. Hollywood on the category of 'ritual' in the academic study of religion the following day were well attended.

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