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Past Events - 2012
April 18 - Religious Perspectives - "Islam, A Shi'a Perspective" presented by Iman Sayid Hassan Al-Qazwini, Islamic Center of America. Printable Flyer
March 22 - "The Wind from Vulture Peak: Japanese Buddhist Poetry and the Heian Aesthetic" by Dr. Stephen Miller, assistant professor of
Japanese language and literatur,
University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Printable Flyer.
March 20 - "Religious Training and Visualization: Mapping the Power of the Early Christian Priest," Dr. Ellen Muehlberger, assistant professor of Christianity in Late Antiquity, University of Michigan. Printable Flyer.
February 22 - "Classical Buddhism, Where To?: A Contemporary Writer's Perspective." Presented by Hiromi Ito, one of the foremost writers of contemporary Japan. After gaining recognition as a feminist writer in the 1980s, Ito has written a great deal about Buddhist thought and literature.
January 23 - “The Rise and Fall of the Temple of Health: Religion, Medicine, and the Battle Creek Sanitarium," Brian Wilson, Department of Comparative Religion. Part of the Department of History Lecture Series.
Past Events - 2011
December 8 - "A Global Buddhism Returns: New Media, Ancient Wisdom and Modern Translations of Buddhism among Ladakhi student migrants in Delhi," open lecture by Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg, Ph.D. candidate, Section for Anthropology, Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus, University, Denmark.
December 2 - "Religion and Revolution in the Arab Spring" Globalization Brown Bag with Dr. Blain Auer on the Arab Spring. Sponsored by the Diether H. Haenicke Institute for Global Education.
November 16 and 17, "Towards Tolerance: Religious Pluralism in America,"
Real Talk Diversity Series.
November 10 - Workshop Lecture Series, "Innocent's Interdicts: An Examination of the Medieval Papacy's Religious Authority," E.M. Bowler.
October 14 - "Islam: A Sunni Perspective," 
presented by Shaykh Sharif Sahibzada, Director of the Islamic Center of West Michigan. Religious Perspectives Series.
October 6, 2011 - "The Fine Line Between Culture and Crazy: A Doctor's Experience Balancing Medicine with Religion in Critically Ill Patients" presented by Dr. Nadia Tremonti. Dr. Nadia Tremonti is the Department of Comparative Religion 2011 Alumni Achievement Award recipient. Dr. Tremonti serves as the Medical Director for both the Pediatric Palliative Care Team at Children’s Hospital of Michigan and the Kaleidoscope Kids Team at Henry Ford Hospice, in Detroit, MI. Dr. Tremonti is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Wayne State University and is Board Certified in Pediatrics and in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
May 20 - Hinduism in the U.S. - Innovations and Issues Conference - Poster
Religion and Film Series
April 21 - "On the Development of the Critical Theory of Society and Religion"-
Film Screening and Conversation with Professor Rudolf Siebert
April 14 - Into the Wild (USA, 2007) - After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life. Discussion led by Sean Butler, Graduate Student in Comparative Religion
April 7 - The Last Train Home (China, 2009) - A family embarks on an annual tormenting journey along with 200 other million peasant workers to reunite with their distant family, and to revive their love and dignity as China soars as the world's next super power. Discussion led by Guo Jue, Professor of Comparative Religion
April 5 - "Son of Satan or Faithful Christian? The Mystery of Arius & The Creation of Christian Orthodoxy"presented by Dr. Rebecca Lyman, The Samuel Garrett Professor of Church History, The Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California
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April 4 - Skapan í skáldskap ok skáldskaparskapan: Creation in and Creation of Norse Poetry - Discussion led by Kevin J. Wanner, Associate Professor of Comparative Religio.n Flyer
March 31 - The Namesake (India/USA, 2006) - American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways. Discussion led by Heather Dubbeld, Graduate Student in Comparative Religion
March 25 - "Religious Community and Political Power in Medieval Islam," presented by Blain Auer, Assistant Professor of Comparative Religion. Flyer
March 24- "My Son the Fanatic (UK/France, 1997)," presented by Blain Auer, Professor of Comparative Religion.
March 24 - "The KJV in the USA: The Impact of the King James Bible in America," presented by Brian C. Wilson, Professor of Comparative Religion. Fyler
March 17 - "The Wicker Man (UK, 1973)," presented by Kevin Wanner, Professor of Comparative Religion.
March 10 - "Cabeza de Vaca (Mexico, 1991)," presented by Brian Wilson, Professor of Comparative Religion.
February 14 - "On the Identity of the Liberated Jiva in Jainism," presented by Sean Butler, Comparative Religion Masters Student. "David Koresh: Charisma Without Routinization," presented by Jason Aiello, Comparative Religion Masters Student. Flyer
February 24 = "The KJV in the USA - The Impage of teh King James Version Bible in America" presented by Brian Wilson, Professor of Comparative Religion. Flyer
January 20 - "A Fourteenth-Century Augustinian Approach to the Jews in Riccoldo da Monte Croce's Ad Nationes Oreintales," presented by Lydia Walker Comparative Religion Masters' Student, and "The Roman Catholic Mass in America: Post-Vatican II and Post-post-Vatican II," presented by Judith Krane-Calvert Comparative Religion M.A. and Instructor. Flyer