Learning Religion: Spiritual Practices, Texts, Institutions, and Imaginaries

Date
Thu April 11th 2019, 8:30am
Event Sponsor
Concentration in Education and Jewish Studies at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University
Location
120-040

This one-day workshop will bring scholars from around the world to Stanford to discuss how people learn religion, learn about the religious, and experiment, practice, and make sense of religious commitments and beliefs. Each session will bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to focus on a particular aspect or arena of learning religion. The sessions will be connected by questions about how practices, texts, institutions, and imaginaries are taught, learned, and constructed.

 

Descriptions of visiting scholars, incl. their affiliation: 

Daniel Winchester (Assistant Professor, Depart of Sociology, Purdue University), panelist in the section "Spiritual Practice" where he will discuss contemporary conversion.

Anna Gade (Professor, Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison) panelist in the section "Spiritual Practice" where she will discuss  religious responses to environmental changes.

Zareena Grewal (Associate Professor, American Studies, Yale University) panelist in the section "Sacred Texts" where she will discuss readings of the Quran.

Sara Smith (Assistant Dean, Graduate Center for Jewish Education, American Jewish University), panelist in the section "Religious Educational Institutions" where she will discuss the history of Jewish days schools in LA.

Sivan Zikai (Assistant Professor, School of Education, Hebrew Union College), panelist in the section "Imaginaries" where she will discuss the role of Israel for American Jewish dayschool students.