I’ll be virtually visiting the OSU Department of Comparative Studies to talk about the promises and pitfalls of comparative method. This is a relatively unstructured event that will open with a short slide presentation before launching into a free-form conversation based on a few texts:

Azuma, Eiichiro. In Search of Our Frontier (Stanford, 2019): 1–26

Lum, Kathryn Gin. “The Historyless Heathen and the Stagnating Pagan: History as Non-Native Category?” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 28, no. 1 (2018): 52–91.

Thomas, Jolyon Baraka. “Microclimates of Religious Freedom.” In Jeffrey Green and Heather Sharkey, eds. The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom, 75–95 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).