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Join us Thursday, May 28 (on Zoom) for Susannah Crockford on “Global Spirituality in Digital Media and Popular Culture.” The talk will consider the varied online and offline routes that link people and places around the world through shared spiritual networks
Join us Thursday, May 28 (on Zoom) for Susannah Crockford on “Global Spirituality in Digital Media and Popular Culture.” The talk will consider the varied online and offline routes that link people and places around the world through shared spiritual networks
This event is co-presented with a grant from the John Templeton Foundation (@templetonfoundation) as part of a nine-lecture series on contemporary metaphysical spirituality.
🕐: May 28, 1PM
📍: ZOOM Webinar (link in bio, under “events”)
💲: Free
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Join us Thursday, April 9 for Sam Gill on “Religion in Motion: The Identity and World-Creating Powers of Religious Action.”
🕐: April 9, 5PM
📍: Henley Hall, Lecture Hall
💲: Free
See our website for event details. Link in bio.
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We are proud to announce our long-term work on repatriation at UCSB and beyond has received a major boost by way of five-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. @HLuceFdn
We will travel as a team to various communities, listening to, learning from, and supporting repatriation practitioners seeking to bring home their ancestors and sacred objects.
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🕐: May 7, 4PM
📍: HSSB, room 3024
💲: Free
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