BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17900-a4add739ac6806293123d296cab345b9@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260426T190259Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T120000 SUMMARY:Religious Studies Reads DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for the next installment of Religious Studies Read s\, a twice-annual informal book club. This semester\, we will be discus sing Yii-Jan Lin's\, Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelat ion Shaped American Immigration (Yale University Press\, 2024). \n\nLin is this year's Harshbarger Lecturer and will be joining us in person for the book club discussion. There are thirty free copies of the book avai lable on a first come first served basis. We only request that if you ta ke a book\, you commit to attending the event. You can pick a copy of th e book from 108 Weaver Building from now until we run out of copies.\n\n Yii-Jan Lin is associate professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity Sc hool\, where she teaches the critical study of ancient texts and their i nterpretation\, especially in relation to race and gender. She is the au thor of Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped Am erican Immigration (Yale University Press\, 2024)\, which traces Christi an apocalyptic thinking from Columbus to the second Trump administration to show how the images\, vocabulary\, and ideas of Revelation have fuel ed anti-immigrant movements throughout American history. Lin is also the author of The Erotic Life of Manuscripts (Oxford University Press\, 201 6)\, which examines how metaphors of race\, family\, evolution\, and gen etic inheritance have shaped the goals and assumptions of New Testament textual criticism from the eighteenth century to the present.\n\nLin ser ves on the executive Council for the Society of Biblical Literature as w ell as the society’s committees on the Bible in America\, and Minoritize d Criticism and Biblical Interpretation. Her articles have appeared in t he Journal of Biblical Literature and Early Christianity\, as well as in The Conversation and Religion Dispatches\, and she has been interviewed for AXIOS and Rolling Stone.\n\nHer current project continues her work on migration and religion in a book focused on the proliferation of mili tarized borders and walls globally\, and the use of sacred texts to unde rstand them.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/religi ous-studies-reads/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join us for the next installment of Religious Studies Reads, a twice-annual informal bo ok club. This semester, we will be discussing Yii-Jan Lin's, Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped Ameri can Immigration (Yale University Press, 2024). 

Lin is this year's Harshbarger Lecturer and will be joining us in person for the book club discussion. There are thirty free copies of the book available on a first come first served basis. We only r equest that if you take a book, you commit to attending the event. You c an pick a copy of the book from 108 Weaver Building from now until we ru n out of copies.

Yii-Jan Lin is associate profes sor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School, where she teaches the crit ical study of ancient texts and their interpretation, especially in rela tion to race and gender. She is the author of Immigration and Apocal ypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration (Yale University Press, 2024), which traces Christian apocalyptic thinking fro m Columbus to the second Trump administration to show how the images, vo cabulary, and ideas of Revelation have fueled anti-immigrant movements t hroughout American history. Lin is also the author of The Erotic Lif e of Manuscripts (Oxford University Press, 2016), which examines ho w metaphors of race, family, evolution, and genetic inheritance have sha ped the goals and assumptions of New Testament textual criticism from th e eighteenth century to the present.

Lin serves on the executive C ouncil for the Society of Biblical Literature as well as the society’s c ommittees on the Bible in America, and Minoritized Criticism and Biblica l Interpretation. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Bibli cal Literature and Early Christianity, as well as in The Conver sation and Religion Dispatches, and she has been interview ed for AXIOS and Rolling Stone.

Her current project conti nues her work on migration and religion in a book focused on the prolife ration of militarized borders and walls globally, and the use of sacred texts to understand them.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/e vent/religious-studies-reads/

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