March 16, 2023
How is race discussed in religious studies? And how is religion talked about in ethnic studies? Through a focus on Islam and Muslims in the United States, this lecture explores the intersections, evasions, omissions, and errors that occur in the study of race and religion in the two fields. Sylvia Chan-Malik, associate professor in the departments of American and women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, offers a brief genealogy of each field, explains the challenges confronting scholars working at these junctures, and argues for race/religion as a category of analysis across the humanities and social sciences.
The lecture is cosponsored by the Department of Religious Studies and the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at Holy Cross.