TALKING ABOUT RELIGION: CONTESTED MEANINGS
April 15, 2011
1:15 – 6:30 p.m.
Marymount Manhattan College
221 E. 71st Street, New York, NY
Regina Peruggi Room
1:15: Welcome, Mark Conard, Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
1:30-3:00: Session One
Pilar Jennings, Marymount Manhattan College, “Is Buddhism a Religion?”
Anthony Petro, New York University, “Between Religion Lived and Represented”
Daniel Colucciello Barber, Marymount Manhattan College, “Religion, Diaspora, and Fabulation”
3:15-4:45: Session Two
Bradley Herling, Marymount Manhattan College, “A Theory of Religion in Foucault’s Iran Writings”
Nada Moumtaz, City University of New York, “The Work ‘Religious Possessions’ Do”
Gil Anidjar, Columbia University, “There Is No Spoon”
5-6:30: Keynote Speaker & Concluding Discussion
Introduction, Judson R. Shaver, President, Marymount Manhattan College
Eugene Gallagher, Connecticut College, “What is Religion? Who’s Asking?”
Event sponsored by the Humanities Division and the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Marymount Manhattan College
Talking About Religion: Contested Meanings 