Center for Culture, Society and Religion at Princeton University

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“Cosmic insights are at your fingertips!” Jeremy Stolow asks what it means that we can now take “aura selfies.”
Join us Thursday at noon online as Connor Martini leads a discussion of “Picturing Aura.”
Register for the webinar:
csr.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

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FYI: virtual Levan Book Chat with CCSR alum Jessica Zu on her new book "Just Awakening: Yogācāra Social Philosophy in Modern China" Feb. 6 at 1 pm PST/4 pm EST: calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...

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Join us online Feb 12 at noon EST!
Connor Martini will be in conversation with Jeremy Stolow about his new book, Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography (MIT Press 2025). More info and register: ccsr.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

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Apply to attend Black Buddhism Faculty Training, Aug 5-8, 2026, Princeton U.

4-day workshop to help N. American higher ed scholars develop pedagogical resources to include the study of Black Buddhism in their courses. Applications due 2/23/26. bbft.ccsr.princeton.edu
#blackbuddhism #pedagogy

Congratulations to our Postdoctoral Fellow Connor Martini on winning the American Religion dissertation prize!

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Happening today at 4:30! More info and register for the webinar: csr.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Really enjoying this new Oxford UP book by one of my Princeton grad school mentors, @rwuth.bsky.social, who is as prolific as ever in retirement. Adept at both history and sociology, he shows how different leaders and groups cultivated happiness as a religious practice. @princetonccsr.bsky.social

Karmic historiography A lawyer friend explained it to me this way: Since the 1980s, lawyers with specialized expertise and exclusive relationships—especially those involved in high-stakes deals like mergers and acquisitions—have been generating...

Read Jonathan Gold's new essay introducing @immanentframe.bsky.social's series on Karmic Historiography: "Call it karmic historiography when we interrogate history for where it is, potentially, the outcome of accumulated moral acts—whether positive or negative." tif.ssrc.org/2025/08/06/k...

Fifteen Princeton faculty, arts fellows, and alumni awarded Guggenheim Fellowship Fifteen Princeton affiliates have received the Guggenheim Fellowship. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the award. Among those celebrated are photographers, composers, and historians.

Congratulations to CCSR alum @annetteyreed.bsky.social *02 on her Guggenheim!
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

Unani Medicine in the Making: Greco-Islamic Healing in India Kira Schmidt-Stiedenroth's research examines the institutions and practices of Unani medicine, the Graeco-Islamic healing practice based on the humoral theory attributed to Hippocrates and officially ...

Today: Kira Schmidt-Stiedenroth with Chapman Sklar on Greco-Islamic Medicine in India. In person and online: csr.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

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If you are in the Philly area next Thursday, join the @xroadproj.bsky.social for a screening of the documentary Dahomey, with discussion and reception after. 5pm Thursday April 3, at Public Trust. Free and open to the public.

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CCSR is pleased to announce that Connor Martini @wrathofcon.bsky.social will be joining us this Fall as Postdoc in Religion & the Public Conversation. His work explores how scientists approach & apprehend the unknown; he will pursue a public-facing project on "Detection." ccsr.princeton.edu

Congratulations to the new Crossroads Fellows in Research, Arts, and Community Stories!

📍Agency and Experience: Buddhist and Cognitive Perspectives Conference at Princeton University

Huge thanks to the organizers Nadav Amir, Eyal Aviv, Molly J. Crockett (@mjcrockett.bsky.social) & Jonathan Gold // cc @princetonccsr.bsky.social #psychsky #academicsky

Responses by Bronwyn Finnigan and Thomas Metzinger

Reflexivity, Luminosity, and Cessative Sidetracks Keynote lecture of the Agency and Experience Yin-Cheng conference.Tracing contemplative philosophy from Dharmakīrti in India up to contemporary “Chag-Dzog” traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, one can tell...

This Friday 4:30 pm EST, Prof. John Dunne will deliver the Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture in Buddhism: "Reflexivity, Luminosity, and Cessative Sidetracks." Join in person or online: csr.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

The Wellness Babes and MAHA Mamas behind RFK Jr. The overlap between spiritual progressives and conservative Christians who reject modern science in favor of holistic health and natural remedies.

Read Visiting Fellow Rachel Carbonara's latest on why RFK Jr's "Make America Healthy Again" appeals to both "wellness babes" and conservative Christian "mamas": martycenter.org/sightings/th...

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New year, new postdoctoral fellowship opening! Come join the conversation at Center for Culture, Society and Religion. Application deadline 2/15/25. More information: ccsr.princeton.edu/news/2025/ap...

Postdoc in Princeton's Center for Culture, Society and Religion @princetonccsr.bsky.social for "recent PhDs specializing in the study of religion in any discipline" with "interest and expertise in public-facing scholarship on religion."
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