Dear Undergraduates:
Please see the announcement below about the first spring Religion
Colloquium. Undergraduates are warmly invited, and I hope to see you there!
Best wishes,
Anne
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From: Study of Religion <csrel(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:21:58 -0500
To: Study of Religion <csrel(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Subject: The Study of Religion Colloquium * Tuesday, February 26, 7 PM *
Thompson Room
The Study of Religion Colloquium:
"Religion, Complex Identities, & American Politics:
The 2008 Presidential Race"
Religion has been an issue this primary season and will continue to have
some traction as the primaries roll on. There is Huckabee's evangelical
base, there was Romney's Mormonism, there were so-called "accusations"
that
Obama is or was a Muslim, and there are the many ways in which the "line"
seems to have been crossed by pastors in endorsing candidates, such as the
Rev. Calvin O. Butts endorsement of Hillary Clinton on the steps of
Abyssinian Baptist Church. How important are "identity" issues in American
politics today --religion, race, culture, ethnicity? What does this
presidential race say about the United States, about us? Have the issues
changed over the last few decades? Can scholars of religion shed any light
on these issues?
* Tuesday, February 26 *
7:00 p.m.
Thompson Room, Barker Center
Panelists: Richard Parker, Kennedy School
Melissa Proctor, Lecturer at Harvard Divinity
Marla Frederick, Religion, African & African American Studies
Sarah Eltantawi, Ph.D. Student, the Study of Religion
Doctoral students are invited to a pizza dinner and discussion before the
colloquium at 6 p.m.
The Study of Religion
csrel(a)fas.harvard.edu
617-495-5781
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