CSWR's Religions and Cities Seminars Feature Top Urban-Studies Scholars
The focus of the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) 2003 Luncheon Seminar series was "Religions and Cities," and brought together speakers on the frontiers of scholarship and research in urban religions and the distinctive religious experience of city-dwellers and the communities they create.
RealPlayer is required to listen to these events.
On Friday, April 4, a panel
of scholars addressed Davíd Carrasco's book, City
of Sacrifice. The panel included: Charles H. Long, scholar
of the History of Religions and African Religions; Phil Arnold,
CSWR Senior Fellow and Professor of Religion at Syracuse University;
and Davíd
Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of
the Study of Latin America, Harvard University.
On
February 7, Professor Lawrence Sullivan spoke on the topic
of "The Ritual City." Dr.
Sullivan is Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity
School and Director of the CSWR.
Dr. Steve Weitzman, Professor
of Biblical and Early Jewish Literature and Religion at Indiana
University, spoke on February 21 on the topic "Uncivil
Religion in Ancient Jerusalem."
