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Knight Luce Fellowship for Reporting on Global Religion

The Knight Luce Fellowship program offers stipends for journalists to travel throughout the world to report and write stories that contextualize these developments for an American audience. These projects demonstrate the enduring power of religion and spirituality to motivate radical … Continue reading

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Do You Have Faith in the Media?

by Diane Winston and John Green A visiting Martian might be forgiven for thinking that Americans care more about the religion of prospective presidential candidates than they do about the economy, the environment, health care, or even space travel. And, … Continue reading

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India Report: Taking On the Taj Mahal

At 8 p.m. Thursday night, J585 “Reporting on Religion” students landed in Delhi. Friday and Saturday were spent exploring the city—its wide tree-lined boulevards, packed street markets, colorful temples and desolate slums. At 6:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, we boarded … Continue reading

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Winston at NYU

On April 26, Diane Winston will deliver a lecture (“Religion, Sexuality and AIDS: All the News That's Fit to Print?) at “Media, Religion and Social Transformation,” a conference sponsored by the Center for Religion and Media at New York University.

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Winston at UCLA

On February 13 Diane Winston moderated a panel at “Looking for Judaism in (Un)Conventional Places,” a symposium hosted by The Center for Jewish Studies at UCLA.

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Winston at SMU

On February 9, Diane Winston delivered two lectures—”Soup Soap and Salvation: William Booth's Legacy for the 21st Century” and “Saving Grace: Ritual, Re-enchantment and Redemption in a Mediatized World”—as the featured speaker at the annual Personal Life/Public Faith lecture series … Continue reading

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Sunbelt Rising: The California Origins of the Modern Evangelical Right

In a talk at USC from noon to 1pm on Thursday, March 1, Darren Dochuk—author of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism—will highlight some of the key (and until now, relatively … Continue reading

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Diane Winston on "The Point"

Guest host John Fugelsang (Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour) leads a discussion of Jesus and the Republican Party, President Obama and LGBT rights and the death of Whitney Houston with panelists Diane Winston (USC Professor of Media and Religion), Rabbi Lisa … Continue reading

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Caryle Murphy at USC

Knight-Luce Fellow Caryle Murphy will participate in a pair of events during her visit to USC. On Tuesday, Jan. 17 at noon, Murphy will speak at the Journalism School Director's Forum at USC Annenberg (in room ASC 207). On Wednesday … Continue reading

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Monsters We Love

“Monster We Love: TV's Pop Culture Theodicy,” on “Krista Tippett On Being” (American Public Media), December 1, 2011. Diane Winston and Krista Tippett discuss amoral zombies, loving vampires, righteous serial killers and lots of God. That's all in the new … Continue reading

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