BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Canada Seminar PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_985106_0 SUMMARY:Canada Seminar DESCRIPTION:

Not P66 But P45: Constructing Religion at the Dawn of Alternative Facts

Zeba Crook, Carleton University

Popular assumptions about religion, what it is and how it works, fail to understand the primary characteristics of religion. This lecture will attempt to address those popular misconceptions as a tonic to the thinking that leads to border closures and Barbaric Cultural Practices Hotlines.

Zeba Crook is a full Professor of Religion at Carleton University, Ottawa. He specializes in the social scientific study of first-century Christ followers, considering the social values the ancient Mediterranean, such as honor, shame, exchange, patronage, economy, and social status, and the social experience of the people who lived in that world, venturing into material evidence such as the inscriptions of voluntary associations. Recent work has taken him into the domain of memory theory and memory distortion, and the manner in which contemporary work in this area problematizes the study of antiquity.

LOCATION:Lee Gathering Room (Room SO20), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20170327T200000Z DTEND:20170327T220000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR