• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Fridays at 13.45
• Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:45 - "In the Service of Democracy": Seularity and Subjectivity in Religious Literacy Discourse
  Justine Ellis (University of Oxford)
• 13:45 - Imagination or Liberation: The Role of Imaginative Visualization as Praxis in Jiva Gosvami's Sat-sandarbha
  TBA

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:45 - Land and Conversion in St. Augustine: Improving the Current Model
  Steven Firmin
• 13:45 - The Anatomy of Unbelief: A Post-secular approach to the Scientific Study of Nonreligion
  Mari Ovsepyan

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:45 - On being interdisciplinary in religious studies
  Stevan Velijkovic
• 13:45 - Machine Gun Prayer: the Politics of Embodied Desire in Pentecostal Worship
  Naomi Richman

Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:45 - The iconography of Kurukulla: Wisdom, Love and magic in Tibetan Buddhism
  Guzin Yener
• 13:45 - "Give glad tidings to the strangers": reflections on the role of 'strangers' in jihadist texts and in classical traditions
  Nabeelah Jaffer

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:45 - Life Itself and the Explanation of Religion
  Professor Gavin Flood (University of Oxford)

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:45 - The Invention of Religion in Islam? Tracing the emergence of Grand Muftis
  Dr Alex Henley (University of Oxford)

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:45 - The Martyrs of Cordoba in their Islamic Context
  Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford)

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:45 - The virtues of lists: Chinese Buddhist scriptural catalogues as historiographical and religious texts
  Professor Stefano Zacchetti (University of Oxford)