The American Academy of Religion just posted a preliminary program for the annual meeting, held this year in Atlanta November 21–24. Seems like lightning struck twice this year. I am on another panel of amazing scholars. Muslims, Film, and Visual Culture – Monday – 9:00 AM-11:30 AM Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding Candace Mixon, University of North…
The American Academy of Religion just posted a preliminary program for the annual meeting, held this year in Atlanta November 21–24. I’ve happily discovered that I am on a wonderful panel of superstar scholars. The Qur’an Translated and Performed – Saturday 9:00 AM-11:30 AM Amina Steinfels, Mount Holyoke College, Presiding SherAli Tareen, Franklin and Marshall College, Qur’an Translations…
Yale University’s Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion (MAVCOR) fosters international work on the religious life of things. Sally M. Promey, Director of the Center, has worked in this area for decades, most notably Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent’s Triumph of Religion at the Boston Public Library (Princeton University Press, 2001),…
This past April I had the pleasure of joining many wonderful scholars to explore the intersections of Islamic and Chinese civilizations in various forms. My presentation, “Approaching the Qur’an in China,” was thinking about some of the thematic topics and approaches that are found in Chinese translations of the Qur’an. The complete program is here.
I’m excited to head off to Istanbul next week for the 2nd annual International Conference on Religion & Film taking place on 21-24 May 2015. My presentation will be a comparative analysis of the representation of Muslims in The Hurt Locker (2008) and American Sniper (2014). My abstract is below. The rest of the program can be found here. For God and…
Dr. Kristian Petersen 