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Tag Archives: Religion
Reason and Religion
A discussion Of George Marden’s new book, The Secularization of the Academy (Oxford University Press). A discussion of reason, religion, and the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Chinese Women & Wisdom
Zhu Hong discusses contemporary literature by and about Chinese women. Victor Mair talks about his translation of the Tao Te Ching, the classic book of Chinese philosophy and religion.
Religion and Narrative
Monika Fludernik and Jan Fokkelman discuss history, myth, and biblical narrative. Gerald Strauss discusses the writing of religious history and Martin Luther, the Protestant reformer.
Freedom and Religion
Judge Noonan discusses North American law and the free practice of religion.
Magical Mysteries
Carmela Franklin discusses the lives of the saints and the concept of saintliness during the early Common Era. Sir Keith Thomas discusses his book, Religion and the Decline of Magic (Charles Scribner’s Sons).
Capable Women
Suzanne Graver discusses her study of the Victorian debate on woman’s mind. Harriet Guest discusses her work in progress, a study entitled Experienced Women: Religion and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing.
Defenders of God
Bruce Lawrence discusses his most recent book, Defenders of God: the Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age (Harper and Row, 1989).
Religion and Community
Marvin Hill discusses his book, Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism (Signature Books, 1989). Brenda Meehan-Waters discusses her study of women’s religious communities in pre-Soviet Russia.
Pilgrims All
Martin Marty discusses religion in the United States as the country looks to a new decade. Barbara Metcalf discusses The Pilgrimage Remembered: South Asian Accounts of the Hajj.
Foreign Subjects: Languages and God in the Schools
Rosemary Feal and Joan Hinde Stewart dicuss foreign languages in American education–what’s popular, what’s not, teaching methods, and literary criticism and theory. Warren Nord and Ronald Sharp talk about the perils and rewards of teaching religion in American schools.
Religion Then, Love Now
William Gass, Indira Peterson, and Glenn Yocum all participated in recent conferences at the National Humanities Center, respectively entitled Theoretical Perspectives on Love, Friendship, Marriage, Sexuality, Men, and Women and Exemplary Religious Lives: Hagiography and ‘Sainthood’ in South Indian Religions.
Religion, Politics and Gender
Geoffrey de Ste. Croix won the Isaac Deutsche Memorial Prize in 1982 for his book, The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World. Jill Raitt is at work on a forthcoming book about religion and politics in 16th-century Europe.
The Goddess and the Dreadful Practice
Paul Cartright is at work on a forthcoming study of the Indian phenomenon of suttee, or self-immolation, entitled The Goddess and the Dreadful Practice.
Will Religion Destroy the World?; Commentary – Will Religion Destroy the World?
John Bowker recently visited the National Humanities Center and North Carolina State University, where he delivered a lecture entitled Will Religion Destroy the World?
TV’s Power and Price
The holy wars of television evangelists have recently focused public attention on religious broadcasting. According to Mimi White, religion on television clearly differs from mainstream programming, but the two forms share an important similarity–therapy, or an emphasis on interpersonal relationships. According to Robert Stam and John Fiske, among the pleasures for viewers of TV journalism is an empowering and ubiquitous perspective on world and local events. But this perspective is an illusion of security reinforced daily at the dinner hour by “a happy family of broadcasters.”
All three speakers participated in a symposium on television and history at the NHC in 1987. White taught in areas of radio, television, and film at Northwestern University. Fiske taught communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Stam taught cinema studies at New York University.