We opened "Theorizing Religion" to the public today as part of the Festival of New... four of the people who signed up even came! But it gave me an excuse to invite Matthew Kaufman to speak, and to put together a series of archival images chronicling religious studies at the New School - or perhaps New School history through religious studies.
1920: The first course on religion - taught by Horace Kallen!
1929: Another Kallen course puts religion on notice
1932: A course asks all the right questions (but on Friday nights!)
1934: The University in Exile brings sociology of religion
1945: New School is where Reinhold Niebuhr analyzes the postwar
1951: Tillich, Arendt and others address the modern crisis of meaning
1961: The spirit of decolonization reframes comparative religion
1970: The New School embraces the Age of Aquarius
1983: We explore feminist reimaginings of religion
1995: Our tradition of interrogating secularism is alive and well
2007: Students enact the dialogue of religion and theater
2012: We bring together scholarship, theology and lived religion 