Seminars

  • Founded
    1997
  • Seminar Number
    661

This seminar explores the role of religion in American society from cross-disciplinary perspectives: history, anthropology, literature, sociology, theology, material culture, etc. Both “religion” and “America” are broadly defined: “religion” takes into account multicultural and multifarious religious expressions in an increasingly pluralistic setting; “America” includes not merely the United States but Canada and the Caribbean as well. The members of the seminar are particularly interested in examining the religiously rich environment of New York City.


Chair
Gale Kenny
gkenny@barnard.edu

Rapporteur
Cella Masso Rivetti
c.masso-rivetti@columbia.edu

Meeting Schedule

10/09/2023 Faculty House, Columbia University
6:00 PM
TBD
Omri Elisha, Queens College, CUNY




11/13/2023 Faculty House, Columbia University
6:00 PM
Rome is not just Catholic, and its religions are not just Italian: U.S. support for the emergence of a new religious freedom
Mariachiara Giorda, Roma Tre University




01/29/2024 Faculty House, Columbia University
6:00 PM
Drain the Swamp: The Infrastructure of American Civil Religion in the Everglades Drainage District
Isaiah Ellis , University of Toronto




02/26/2024 Faculty House, Columbia University
6:00 PM
TBD
Heath Carter, Princeton Theological Seminary




04/01/2024 Faculty House, Columbia University
6:00 PM
TBD
Erica Robles, New York University




05/06/2024 Faculty House, Columbia University
6:00 PM
TBD
Xavier Pickett , Cornell University