School of Religion
Claremont Graduate University
Application Process Open

The Critical Comparative Scriptures (CCS) program seeks to problematize scriptures as freighted shorthand for a complex cross-cultural phenomenon involving our signs/discourses, rituals and practices, artifacts, representations, myths, ideologies, sentiments and power relations. It raises basic questions and issues about self-reflexivity, positionality and interestedness, power and difference. In short, the CCS program facilitates research on the work that human begins make scriptures do for them. As a comparative program, CCS strives to be comprehensive in scope, encouraging research across “world” religion traditions, geo-spatial boundaries, socio-cultural complexes, and vernacular traditions. It expects students to employ anthropology, sociology, psychology, social history, linguistic, performance studies and political theory, among other disciplines, in an attempt to explain how and why and with what consequences human beings scripturalize. For complete program and application information visit http://www.cgu.edu/pages/7135.asp.

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The Humanities Center at the University of Vermont has recently been reconfigured. The Center’s various funding opportunities have been renamed the Lattie F. Coor Awards in the Humanities and are administered by the College of Arts and Sciences. The Center’s Graduate Humanities Seminars will no longer be offered. Reflecting a mandate that is becoming increasingly common among the CHCI membership, the Center plans to introduce a vigorous undergraduate component to Humanities programming at UVM, including a major and minor.

The Humanities Center itself has been rechristened as The Humanities Program. The Director of the Program, Andrew Barnaby, will continue to be responsible for initiating and coordinating existing Humanities offerings and events on campus. Visit the new program’s website for more information.

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