Social Science Research Council

Harvey Cox and E.J. Dionne, two luminaries of American progressive Christianity, will be discussing Cox’s The Future of Faith tonight at WNYC’s Greene Space in lower Manhattan.

The indie-music authority Pitchfork reports that Billy Corgan (of the Smashing Pumpkins) and David Byrne (of the Talking Heads) will participate next month in the Rubin Museum’s upcoming dialogue series on Carl Jung’s recently unearthed Red Book, which received attention last month in the New York Times.

On October 29th at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, journalist Jeff Sharlet will be discussing his recent bestselling book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.

On October 22 the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, in concert with the SSRC and the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University, will host “Rethinking Secularism: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere,” a symposium featuring Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West.

On 16-17 October 2009, the CUNY Graduate Center will host a conference in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of C. Wright Mills’s The Sociological Imagination. The event will be sponsored by the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center and the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU.

On October 7-9 the New York Theological Seminary will host “Religion in the Global City,” a conference on the role of congregations and communities of faith in the new global, urban milieu.

Yale University will be holding an interdisciplinary conference entitled Why Homosexuality: Religion, Globalization and the Anglican Schism on October 17, 2009.

Religion in American History announces an upcoming conference looking back on Mark Noll’s important book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. It will take place on October 1-2, 2009, at Gordon College in Wenham, MA, and Mark Noll himself will be in attendance.

Jen’nan Ghazal Read, associate professor of sociology and global health at Duke University and a contributor to The Immanent Frame, will be featured in Duke’s “online ‘office hours’” series this Friday.

The Irmgard Coninx Stiftung has announced the Twelfth Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality and will be fielding essays on the subject of “Cultural Pluralism Revised: Religious and Linguistic Freedoms.”