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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Tonight: Harvey Cox and E.J. Dionne on faith and progressive politics

posted by Charles Gelman

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.

Read Tonight: Harvey Cox and E.J. Dionne on faith and progressive politics.
Friday, October 16th, 2009

Carl Jung rocks

posted by Daniel Vaca

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.

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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Jeff Sharlet discusses The Family, October 29th

posted by Nathan Schneider

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.

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Monday, October 12th, 2009

The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere

posted by Charles Gelman

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.

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Friday, October 9th, 2009

C. Wright Mills: “taking it big”

posted by Daniel Vaca

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.

Read C. Wright Mills: “taking it big”.
Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Religion in the Global City

posted by Charles Gelman

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.

Read Religion in the Global City.
Monday, September 21st, 2009

Yale to hold conference on homosexuality, globalization and the Anglican schism

posted by Jessica Polebaum

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

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Friday, September 11th, 2009

The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, 15 years later

posted by Nathan Schneider

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.

Read The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, 15 years later.
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Live discussion with Jen’nan Ghazal Read

posted by Charles Gelman

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.

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Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Essay Competition on religious and linguistic freedoms

posted by Charles Gelman

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.”

Read Essay Competition on religious and linguistic freedoms.