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Center for Culture, Society and Religion at Princeton University
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Princeton University Center for Culture, Society & Religion is an academic initiative promoting scholarly research, teaching & public discussion about religion
Congratulations to our Postdoctoral Fellow Connor Martini on winning the American Religion dissertation prize!
We are thrilled to congratulate Dr. Connor Martini as the winner of American Religion’s fifth annual dissertation prize! Dr. Martini’s dissertation is titled, “The Evidence of Things Not Seen.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Happening today at 4:30! More info and register for the webinar: csr.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
September 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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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
August 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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...
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...
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August 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Today: Kira Schmidt-Stiedenroth with Chapman Sklar on Greco-Islamic Medicine in India. In person and online: csr.princeton.edu/events/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 ...
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April 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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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.
March 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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
March 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Congratulations to the new Crossroads Fellows in Research, Arts, and Community Stories!
We are thrilled to announce the 2025-2026 Crossroads Fellows, whose projects -- photography, oral history, fiber arts, music, comics, ecology, mapping, fiction, and more -- will be presented on our SPIRIT HOUSE site.

Read about the new fellows here:
crossroads.princeton.edu/grant-progra...
February 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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📍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
January 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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/...
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...
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January 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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...
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.
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January 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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...
January 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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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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December 14, 2024 at 9:08 PM