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Princeton University Center for Culture, Society & Religion is an academic initiative promoting scholarly research, teaching & public discussion about religion

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old Ottoman coins sprinkled around text

old Ottoman coins sprinkled around text

Happening today at 4:30! More info and register for the webinar: csr.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

10.09.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Really enjoying this new Oxford UP book by one of my Princeton grad school mentors, @rwuth.bsky.social, who is as prolific as ever in retirement. Adept at both history and sociology, he shows how different leaders and groups cultivated happiness as a religious practice. @princetonccsr.bsky.social

31.08.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Karmic historiography A lawyer friend explained it to me this way: Since the 1980s, lawyers with specialized expertise and exclusive relationshipsβ€”especially those involved in high-stakes deals like mergers and acquisitionsβ€”have been generating...

Read Jonathan Gold's new essay introducing @immanentframe.bsky.social's series on Karmic Historiography: "Call it karmic historiography when we interrogate history for where it is, potentially, the outcome of accumulated moral actsβ€”whether positive or negative." tif.ssrc.org/2025/08/06/k...

08.08.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fifteen Princeton faculty, arts fellows, and alumni awarded Guggenheim Fellowship Fifteen Princeton affiliates have received the Guggenheim Fellowship. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the award. Among those celebrated are photographers, composers, and historians.

Congratulations to CCSR alum @annetteyreed.bsky.social *02 on her Guggenheim!
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

21.04.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Unani Medicine in the Making: Greco-Islamic Healing in India Kira Schmidt-Stiedenroth's research examines the institutions and practices of Unani medicine, the Graeco-Islamic healing practice based on the humoral theory attributed to Hippocrates and officially ...

Today: Kira Schmidt-Stiedenroth with Chapman Sklar on Greco-Islamic Medicine in India. In person and online: csr.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

07.04.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Poster of a man standing in front of a bronze obejct and information for the screening of the documentary film Dahomey

Poster of a man standing in front of a bronze obejct and information for the screening of the documentary film Dahomey

If you are in the Philly area next Thursday, join the @xroadproj.bsky.social for a screening of the documentary Dahomey, with discussion and reception after. 5pm Thursday April 3, at Public Trust. Free and open to the public.

28.03.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CCSR is pleased to announce that Connor Martini @wrathofcon.bsky.social will be joining us this Fall as Postdoc in Religion & the Public Conversation. His work explores how scientists approach & apprehend the unknown; he will pursue a public-facing project on "Detection." ccsr.princeton.edu

27.03.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations to the new Crossroads Fellows in Research, Arts, and Community Stories!

24.02.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“Agency and Experience: Buddhist and Cognitive Perspectives Conference at Princeton University

Huge thanks to the organizers Nadav Amir, Eyal Aviv, Molly J. Crockett (@mjcrockett.bsky.social) & Jonathan Gold // cc @princetonccsr.bsky.social #psychsky #academicsky

16.01.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Responses by Bronwyn Finnigan and Thomas Metzinger

14.01.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reflexivity, Luminosity, and Cessative Sidetracks Keynote lecture of the Agency and Experience Yin-Cheng conference.Tracing contemplative philosophy from DharmakΔ«rti in India up to contemporary β€œChag-Dzog” traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, one can tell...

This Friday 4:30 pm EST, Prof. John Dunne will deliver the Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture in Buddhism: "Reflexivity, Luminosity, and Cessative Sidetracks." Join in person or online: csr.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

14.01.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Wellness Babes and MAHA Mamas behind RFK Jr. The overlap between spiritual progressives and conservative Christians who reject modern science in favor of holistic health and natural remedies.

Read Visiting Fellow Rachel Carbonara's latest on why RFK Jr's "Make America Healthy Again" appeals to both "wellness babes" and conservative Christian "mamas": martycenter.org/sightings/th...

09.01.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Postdoctoral Fellow Rachel Carbonara seated in conversation

Postdoctoral Fellow Rachel Carbonara seated in conversation

New year, new postdoctoral fellowship opening! Come join the conversation at Center for Culture, Society and Religion. Application deadline 2/15/25. More information: ccsr.princeton.edu/news/2025/ap...

01.01.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Postdoc in Princeton's Center for Culture, Society and Religion @princetonccsr.bsky.social for "recent PhDs specializing in the study of religion in any discipline" with "interest and expertise in public-facing scholarship on religion."
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14.12.2024 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

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