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DESCRIPTION:2022 Birks Lecture is part of School of Religious Studies 75th 
 Anniversary.\n\nProfessor Tomoko Masuzawa will speak on\, Queen in the Att
 ic: Theology and the University. Where Was Theology and How Did We Get Thi
 s Wrong?\n\nWas theology the “queen of the sciences” and the highest autho
 rity in the medieval university? When we consider what is known about the 
 earliest universities that came into existence in the 12th and 13th centur
 ies\, it becomes readily apparent that this familiar sobriquet stems from 
 certain phrases for self-promotion\, not a description of reality. Surveyi
 ng broadly what today’s historians of early universities have to tell us\,
  we may now adjust our image of the institution\, taking a more serious lo
 ok at the university’s origin and its raison d’être. Accordingly\, it is n
 ecessary to correct our received notion of the place of theology in the me
 dieval academy. And we may start asking ourselves how we\, the moderns\, h
 ave been so consistently mistaken.\n\nTomoko Masuzawa is Professor Emerita
  of History and of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. B
 orn and educated in Tokyo\, she holds an MA (Yale) and a Ph.D. (UC Santa B
 arbara) in Religious Studies. She is a scholar of European intellectual hi
 story\, with a special interest in modern discourses on religion and the h
 istory of human sciences. She previously taught in the Religious Studies D
 epartment at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. Her publicati
 ons include In Search of Dreamtime: the Quest for the Origin of Religion (
 1993)\, The Invention of World Religions: Or\, How European Universalism W
 as Preserved in the Language of Pluralism (2005)\, “The Bible as Literatur
 e?—Note on a Litigious Ferment of the Concept” (2013)\, “Striating Differe
 nce: From ‘Ceremonies and Customs’ to World Religions” (2014)\, and “Theol
 ogy\, the Fairy Queen” (2021). She has held a Guggenheim Foundation fellow
 ship as well as a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeto
 n\, NJ).\n
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LOCATION:Birks Heritage Chapel\, Birks Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 
 2A7\, 3520 rue University
SUMMARY:Birks Lecture Series: Professor Tomoko Masuzawa
URL:/religiousstudies/channels/event/birks-lecture-ser
 ies-professor-tomoko-masuzawa-341596
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