Department of Religion
A documentary film about the impact of the Doctrine of Discovery on Indigenous Peoples and the planet today.
The talk explores what Buddha-nature actually is—everyone and everything’s entire existence, identical to every iota of mental and physical being, of every possible entity no matter how concrete or abstract.
This talk presents insights from a forthcoming book that synthesizes two decades of ethnographic, archival, and historical comparative research to examine religious transformation in post-Mao China.
The theme this year is "Moral Conflict in Early Chinese Philosophy." Scholars of early Chinese philosophy from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America will engage each other on this important topic.
The 2024 Distinguished Lecture in Religion by Stanley Powers on 'The Modern Invention of Monotheism and its Uses'
Hosted by the Rutgers Department of Religion’s Alka Siddhartha Dalal Endowment for the Study of Jainism and the Center for Cultural Analysis, with support from Global Asias and the Department of Philosophy
Early Christian Monks among Soldiers and "Barbarians"
This lecture will explore the Jain philosophical concept of Anekāntavāda, or the doctrine of non-one-sidedness, in relation to Jain religious practice and its broader implications for the philosophy of religion.
The King's Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a diplomatic route, rather than a commercial one.
This lecture traces my journey from the 1988 Iowa Precinct Caucuses to Washington to Wyoming and back to Iowa in search of the true genesis of the movement that has reshaped the American political landscape.
In this presentation, Professor Miriam Goldstein will introduce the composition, highlighting and detailing its early and significant Judeo-Arabic attestations.
This talk focuses on the travel diaries written by Zhou Bida (1126～1204).
This talk will explore the complex ways that narratives were constructed in early China.
In conclusion, the talk discusses the importance of understanding digital religion to explore contemporary political identities and to analyze the impact of certain religious ideologies outside of religious institutions.
Many Chinese texts written between 250 BCE and 800 CE preserve passages prescribing methods for preventing a particular sort of dream from occurring or for addressing its effects after it had occurred.
This talk explores the terrain of happiness in these two traditions, showing shared concerns and sharpening differences, and offers some methodological reflection about the study of emotions in this context.
This lecture will appeal to specialists of East Asian religions and to religionists and anthropologists interested in ritual.
The January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol drew attention to a number of extremist movements including the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
The Yogic Practice School (Yogācāra) is one of the two main traditions of Indian Buddhist philosophy.
Professor Walser argues that the cogency of such arguments is undermined when the historical context of the original argument is misunderstood
