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Lectures, Conferences & Conversations
The Marty Center hosts and sponsors a variety of events each year focused on the roles religion plays in the world. We welcome you to join us for those listed below. To request special accommodations, please contact us in advance at 773-702-7049 or martycenter@uchicago.edu.
Secondhand Sacred
Secondhand Sacred is an ongoing research project in the critical study of religion. The central question it asks is: how does Christian material culture circulate through secondhand economies?
Learn moreThe Future of the Study of Religion
This conference will bring together contributors to the Second Edition of "Critical Terms for Religious Studies" to launch a conversation on the field’s future in the 21st century, amidst climate change, the material turn, the growing threat to the humanities, the growth of AI, global instability, and a reckoning with the field’s complicity in colonial violence and racism.
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