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Last Day for Undergraduate and Graduate Students to Complete and Submit any Incomplete Work to Resolve Fall 2023 INC Grades
Campus Walking Tour
From the Classroom to a Career: New Risk Management and Insurance Major
Religion Program End-of-Year Get-Together
For graduating students and prospective students alike, in person if conditions allow.
Students, Faculty, Prospective Students welcome! Professor Andrew Arlig (Philosophy) Professor Brian Sowers (Classics) Professor Lauren Mancia (History) Professor Namita Manohar (Sociology) Lisa Schwebel, and more!
Arooj Alam (BC Alumna!, Graduate Center M.A. ’21, now Ph.D. student) Professor Andrew Arlig (Philosophy) responding
It is something of a truism that the Quran’s narrative defies modern texts’ linear chronology demarcated by definitive beginnings, middles, and ends. Quranic studies specialists have expended considerable effort investigating its narratology, foreign vocabulary, conception of ethics, and transmission history. However, an exploration of time and temporality within the Quran remains a minor concern in the field. To address this lacuna, I investigate how one twentieth-century South Asian alim Manazir Ahsan Gilani (d.1956) grappled with time and temporality in the Ashab al-Kahf story of Chapter 18 of the Quran titled Surat al-Kahf.
I make a modest contribution to Quranic studies, philosophy of religion, Islamic intellectual history, and post-colonial studies by comparing Gilani’s Tafsir on this surah with his classical and modern Middle Eastern counterparts. I ask how some Islamic reformers’ response, in nineteenth-century South Asia, to modernity’s challenges, later influenced Gilani’s interpretation of this surah? Specifically, how did the rise of scientism within the South Asian Tafsir tradition genre shaped Gilani’s subjectivities and sensibilities? In what ways was Gilani resisting against the pervasive influence of modern, capitalistic, and homogenous time? Most importantly, why did Gilani reinterpret this story’s significance as a protection against the arrival of al-Masih al-Dajjal?
Professor Namita Manohar (Sociology) Professor Louis Fishman (History) Professor Curtis Hardin (Psychology)
A series of events in spring 2021 as we wait for the vaccine and the end of the pandemic.
The Decameron: Professor David Brodsky (Judaic Studies), Professor Kimberly Chopin (Education/University College Copenhagen), Dr. Elizabeth Weinberg (The Austin Riggs Center), Professor Louisa Burnham (History/Middlebury College), Andrew Nagel (Jewish Theological Seminary), Annie Pforzheimer (Center for Strategic and International Studies) Medieval Literature: Professor Nicola Masciandaro (English)
Professor Donna Lee Granville (Sociology) Professor Timothy Shortell (Sociology) Professor Jean Eddy St. Paul (Sociology)
Professor Brian Sowers (Classics) Professor Jeanne Theoharis (Political Science)
Professor Andrew Arlig (Philosophy) Professor Karl Steel (English)
Brandon Woolf, Theater Maker/NYU Professor
Professor Christina Van Dyke (Philosophy/Calvin College) Professor Lauren Mancia (History)
So You Want to Be a Doctor?
Are you pre-med? Give yourself the edge by studying religion!
A panel on how a dual-major or minor in religion can help you in your pursuit of a career in medicine.
March 5, 2019 12:15–2:15 p.m. Maroon Room, Student Center
Free pizza!
Poster for The Birth of Punk Islam
The Studies in Religion Program invites you to a screening of the movie The Birth of Punk Islam.
November 6, 2018 12:30–2 p.m. 4145 Boylan Hall
