This article was originally posted on the Washburn Review by Arohi Rai.
On Thursday, Feb. 27, the annual King Lecture was held in the Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center from 7 p.m to 9 p.m. where Liz Bucar, professor of religion at Northeastern University, talked at the 2025 Thomas L. King Lecture in religious studies.
The title of the lecture was “The Monsters Under Our Mats: Exploring the Ethical Implications of Yoga.” Bucar also discussed her new book, “Stealing My Religion Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation.”
The lecture started with the announcement of supporters of the event; Reverend Dick Dickinson, Barry Crawford and Bucar.
Bucar is a leading expert and prize winning author. Her writing, teaching and public lecturers cover a wide range of topics – from sexual reassignment surgery to the politics of religious clothing – but focus on how a deeper understanding of religious differences changes our sense of what is right and good. She has written for The Atlantic, Teen Vogue, The Los Angeles Times and Religion News Service, among others, and her work has been discussed in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post and Instyle Magazine.
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