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Ruth Braunstein's new book, My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America, delves into how paying taxes became a moral battleground in public life. She will deliver the 2026 Doll Lecture on Religion and Money at 4:30 pm ET in Aaron Burr Hall 219 and online:
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Don't forget to file your taxes early so you can join us on Tax Day for Ruth Braunstein's Doll Lecture on "The Morality of Taxpaying in America"! On campus and online: csr.princeton.edu/events/2026/...
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Join us on Tax Day, April 15 at 4:30, for Ruth Braunstein's Doll Lecture: "The Morality of Tax Paying in America" on campus and online: csr.princeton.edu/events/2026/...
"Visions of Sublime Excess: Visionary Literature, Expansive Art, and Transformative Technologies in Ancient and Modern Buddhism"
Join us Thursday 3/26 @ 4:30 for this lecture by David McMahan in person or online.
csr.princeton.edu/events/2026/...
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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
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...
Congratulations to CCSR alum @annetteyreed.bsky.social *02 on her Guggenheim!
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
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
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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/...
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."
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...