Upcoming Calendar By Year

"The Fringe Effect:  The Evolution of Public Discourse about Islam"

Read More about CISR presents Christopher Bail, University of North Carolina

The Cultural Conditions of Legal Borrowing:  Tocqueville's Penitentiaries and Contemporary Problem Solving Courts

James L. Nolan, Jr. is a Professor of Sociology at Williams College and is currently a visiting fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. This talk will…

Read More about The Dean of Arts & Letters and the Department of Sociology present: James L. Nolan Jr.

Robert N. Bellah, distinguished professor of sociology at the University…

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Agriculture, Religion, and the Spirit of Capitalism: What Tocqueville, Weber, Chesterton, and Qutb Saw in America

Nolan’s talk will reflect comparatively on what the four visitors saw regarding the influence of capitalism and religion on understandings of nature and agrarianism in…

Read More about CISR presents James L. Nolan Jr., Williams College

The Center for the Study of Religion and Society will hold a book launch party to celebrate the publication of Atalia Omer's book "When Peace is Not Enough:  How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks About Religion, Nationalism, and Justice" (The University of Chicago Press 2013).

 

Friday,…

Read More about Book launch party to celebrate the publication of Atalia Omer's book, "When Peace is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks About Religion, Nationalism, and Justice" (The University of Chicago Press 2013).

The Center for the Study of Religion and Society, together with the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and the Center for Ethics and Culture, will hold a book launch party to celebrate the publication of Mary Ellen Konieczny’s book, "The Spirit’s Tether:  Family Work and Religion…

Read More about Book launch party to celebrate the publication of Mary Ellen Konieczny’s book, "The Spirit’s Tether: Family Work and Religion Among American Catholics" (Oxford University Press 2013).

Susan Crawford Sullivan, College of Holy Cross "Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty," November 13.

 

Read More about CISR presents Susan Crawford Sullivan, College of Holy Cross

Andrew Johnson, University of Southern California "Beyond Coping:  Pentecostalism in Prison in Rio de Janeiro," December 13.

Read More about CISR presents Andrew Johnson, University of Southern California