Maybe it's because I tend to think in spatial terms, but over the years I have come to conceive of the study of religion as a series of lines meandering through a vast, three-dimensional space. The trajectories of these lines can be described using three variables (the axes).
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Professor Tutino Honored
Professor Stefania Tutino will be awarded the 2011 William Nelson Prize by
the Renaissance Society of America for an article entitled "Nothing But the
Truth? Hermeneutics and Morality in the Doctrines of Equivocation and Mental
Reservation in Early Modern Europe." The award will be presented at the RSA
annual meeting on March 24.
Summer Study Abroad in Egypt
Led by Associate Professor Juan E. Campo & Continuing Lecturer Magda Campo
This faculty-led program in Cairo explores the relations between people, food, and religion in Egypt and the wider Middle East. It is concerned with how peoples in this region have used food to fashion and express their religious, cultural, and personal identities, and how the Egyptian "foodscape" in particular has developed historically through centuries of contact with other cultures and civilizations. The course focuses on Muslim and Christian culinary traditions in Egypt, and draws comparisons with feasting and fasting practices of other cultures in the Middle East. The roots of modern Egyptian cuisine in ancient Egypt and the effects of globalization on Egyptian culinary culture will also be examined. Includes a two-unit course in colloquial Arabic, as well as hands-on practice in preparing Middle Eastern recipes.
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