Day Lecture
Day Lecture
Zoom Link will be predistributedJoin REL for an evening with Cody Musselman, our 9th annual Day Lecturer. Nearing completion of her Ph.D at Yale University, her work focuses on such topics as secularism, with a dissertation on the spiritual but not religious (SBNR) fitness cultures of neo-liberal capitalism which involves carrying out fieldwork among CrossFit boxes and SoulCycle studios.
Day Lecture
Zoom Link will be predistributedJoin REL for an evening with Cody Musselman, our 9th annual Day Lecturer. Nearing completion of her Ph.D at Yale University, her work focuses on such topics as secularism, with a dissertation on the spiritual but not religious (SBNR) fitness cultures of neo-liberal capitalism which involves carrying out fieldwork among CrossFit boxes and SoulCycle studios.
10th Annual Day Lecture
Gorgas Library, Camelia RoomJoin us for Prof. Samah Choudhury's 10th annual Day Lecture.
Day Lecture
ten Hoor Hall 30Even though Star Wars has been a powerful and ever-present force in popular culture for the past 45 years, there is little work on the subject by academics who specialize in religion. In this talk I discuss why I think it’s important that scholars take popular culture more seriously, and possibly take ourselves less seriously. Examining data that is not considered to be earth-shatteringly important may encourage us to be more objective, attentive, and flexible when developing both specific interpretations and broad theories. In short, studying Star Wars may help us be better scholars of religion.