Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion http://www.baylorisr.org Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:27:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Jeff Levin – “Spirituality and Health: An Epidemiologist’s Perspective” http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/06/jeff-levin-%e2%80%9cspirituality-and-health-an-epidemiologist%e2%80%99s-perspective%e2%80%9d/ http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/06/jeff-levin-%e2%80%9cspirituality-and-health-an-epidemiologist%e2%80%99s-perspective%e2%80%9d/#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:27:42 +0000 Frances_Malone http://www.baylorisr.org/?p=6456 June 5, 2012, 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM, keynote address

“Spirituality and Health:  An Epidemiologist’s Perspective”
26th Annual Thomas Nevola, M.D., Symposium on Spirituality and Health
Colby College
Waterville, ME  04901
CONTACT:  Dr. Frederic C. Craigie, Jr. (frederic.craigie@mainegeneral.org)

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“Judaism and Health:  New Initiatives at HUC and in the Reform Movement”

Temple Beth Sholom

4200 SW Munson Ave.

Topeka, KS  66604

CONTACT:  Patty Foster (785-272-6400, or admin@templebethsholomtopeka.org)

 

]]> http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/04/jeff-levin-judaism-and-health-new-initiatives-at-huc-and-in-the-reform-movement/feed/ 0 “The Man in the Middle” – Lecture by Timothy Goeglein http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/03/the-man-in-the-middle-lecture-by-timothy-goeglein/ http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/03/the-man-in-the-middle-lecture-by-timothy-goeglein/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:23:59 +0000 Frances_Malone http://www.baylorisr.org/?p=6179 Faith and Public Life: Pride, Humility, and the Grace That Binds Them

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March 26, 2012
Kayser Auditorium
Baylor University
3:30 p.m.

Timothy Goeglein spent nearly eight years in the White House as President George W. Bush’s key point of contact to American conservatives and the faith-based world and was frequently profiled in the national news media.  But when a plagiarism scandal prompted his resignation, Goeglein chose not to dodge it but confront it, and was shown remarkable grace by the president.  In fact, Bush showed more concern for Goeglein and his family than any personal political standing.

So begins The Man in the Middle, Goeglein’s unique insider account of why he believes most of the 43rd president’s in-office decisions were made for the greater good, and how  many of those decisions could serve as a blueprint for the mergence of a thoughtful, confident conservatism.

Goeglein, now the VP of External Relations with Focus on the Family, also looks back at how Bush handled matters like stem cell research, faith-based initiatives, the emergence of the Values Voters, the nominations of both Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito — in which Goeglein has a direct role –and debates over the definition of marriage.

In all, Man in the Middle backs historians who view the legacy of President George W. Bush in a favorable light, recognizing his conservative ideas worth upholding in order to better shape our nation and change the world.

 

]]> http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/03/the-man-in-the-middle-lecture-by-timothy-goeglein/feed/ 0 Fellers Lecture, Dr. Levin “Judaism, Medicine, & Health” http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/03/httpwww-spiritualityandhealth-orgevent32012-fellers-lecture-dr-levin-judaism-medicine-health/ http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/03/httpwww-spiritualityandhealth-orgevent32012-fellers-lecture-dr-levin-judaism-medicine-health/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:27:55 +0000 Frances_Malone http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/01/httpwww-spiritualityandhealth-orgevent32012-fellers-lecture-dr-levin-judaism-medicine-health/ March 20, 2012, 12:00 PM, invited lecture
“Judaism, Medicine, and Health:  An Emerging Scholarly Field Comes of Age”
John E. Fellers Lecture and Grand Rounds
Institute for Spirituality and Health
Location:
Trevisio’s
John P. McGovern Texas Medical Center Commons
6550 Bertner Avenue
Houston, TX  77030
CONTACT:  Jerri Doctor (713-797-0600, x109, or jdoctor@ish-tmc.org)

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]]> http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/03/httpwww-spiritualityandhealth-orgevent32012-fellers-lecture-dr-levin-judaism-medicine-health/feed/ 0 Do We Truly Believe in Pluralism and Diversity? Faith-Based Organizations’ Religious Freedom Rights – Stephen Monsma Lecture http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/03/do-we-truly-believe-in-pluralism-and-diversity-faith-based-organizations-religious-freedom-rights-stephen-monsma-lecture/ http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/03/do-we-truly-believe-in-pluralism-and-diversity-faith-based-organizations-religious-freedom-rights-stephen-monsma-lecture/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:02:28 +0000 Frances_Malone http://www.baylorisr.org/?p=6398 March 6, 2012

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Kayser Auditorium
3:30 p.m.

Stephen V. Monsma’s  lecture argues faith-based organizations that provide health, educational, and social services to the public are facing increasing legal pressures to tone down or abandon their religiously-based practices.  It then goes on to argue that worldviews rooted in Catholic and evangelical Protestant thinking protect the religious freedom rights of faith-based organizations, and thereby pluralism and diversity, better than do worldviews rooted in secularist thinking.

“Monsma is the dean of scholars who study religion and politics in America. You don’t need to agree with all or even most of his policy-relevant conclusions to marvel at the deep erudition, moral balance, and civic spirit that inform each and every page of Pluralism and Freedom. And you can’t claim to have a truly informed and considered opinion on the most controversial church-state issues of our day unless you have read this latest gem of a book by Monsma.”
—John J. DiIulio Jr., University of Pennsylvania; founding director,
White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives

 

]]> http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/03/do-we-truly-believe-in-pluralism-and-diversity-faith-based-organizations-religious-freedom-rights-stephen-monsma-lecture/feed/ 0 Does Religion Contribute to the Common Good? Featuring special guest Byron Johnson, author of “More God, Less Crime” http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/03/does-religion-contribute-to-the-common-good-featuring-special-guest-byron-johnson-author-of-more-god-less-crime/ http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/03/does-religion-contribute-to-the-common-good-featuring-special-guest-byron-johnson-author-of-more-god-less-crime/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:17:41 +0000 Frances_Malone http://www.baylorisr.org/?p=6770

Does Religion Contribute to the Common Good?

With special guest Byron Johnson, author of “More God, Less Crime”

Friday, March 2

Food service begins at 11:30 am

Program begins promptly at noon

First Baptist Church downtown

108 W. College Avenue

Tallahassee, FL

(enter from either the Adams Street or Duval Street Welcome Center entrance)

 

This event is free and open to the public; there is no charge to attend. 

A hot lunch is available (menu below) for $8 if you RSVP by the Tuesday prior to the event, $10 after Tuesday and at the door.

  All meals are paid for at the door, cash or check. 

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]]> http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/03/does-religion-contribute-to-the-common-good-featuring-special-guest-byron-johnson-author-of-more-god-less-crime/feed/ 0 Philip Jenkins – Butler Seminar on Religion and World Civilization – Global Christianity in the 21st Century http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/02/philip-jenkins-butler-seminar-on-religion-and-world-civilization-global-christianity-in-the-21st-century/ http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/02/philip-jenkins-butler-seminar-on-religion-and-world-civilization-global-christianity-in-the-21st-century/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:10:17 +0000 Frances_Malone http://www.baylorisr.org/?p=6955 This four-part seminar series brings scholars, religious leaders and other experts from across the nation and around the world to Butler for discussions about the intersection of religion and major issues of our time. The seminar meets throughout the academic year for evening presentations and question-and-answer sessions. All sessions are 7-9 p.m. Most sessions are in the Krannert Room of Clowes Memorial Hall on the Butler campus. Admission is free, BUT TICKETS ARE REQUIRED and available at the Clowes Memorial Hall box office and Ticketmaster*. There is a limit of two tickets per person. Tickets for the Sept. 20 and Oct. 18, 2011 events will be available beginning Sept. 6, 2011. The box office is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Friday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday.

For more information contact Judith Cebula, Director, Center for Faith and Vocation, at (317) 923-7252.

The Center for Faith and Vocation gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Lilly Endowment Inc.

Brouse brochures from previous years here.

Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 | Krannert Room of Clowes Memorial Hall

By the middle of the century, Christianity will be dominated by diverse and dynamic communities in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Its theology, social ethics and worship will reflect this historic shift. One of the most important scholars of global Christianity gives content and perspective to these trends.

Speaker:

Dr. Philip Jenkins is an historian and professor of humanities at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of a leading work about contemporary Christianity, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (2002).

Respondents:

The Rev. Dr. Angelique Walker-Smith is executive director of the Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis, a leader in the World Council of Churches and a frequent visitor to churches in the global South, especially Africa.

Dr. Michael Miller is professor of theology and director of cross-cultural and international programs at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis.

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The 5th Annual Religions in Conversation Conference will explore the topic of Religion and Popular Culture related to this year’s theme: “Navigating the Sacred and Profane in American Popular Culture.” In recent years academics have paid increasing attention to the dynamic between religion and popular culture. This development is not surprising given the salience of religion in public consciousness and discourse, especially in the United States: from the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon and commercialized forms of Kabbalah to the Left Behind book series and Bill Maher’s Religulous, the topic is clearly relevant, not to mention marketable. The relationship between religion and popular culture engenders basic but important questions for scholars of religion: what are the demarcations and boundaries between religion and popular culture, between the sacred and profane? Do “religion,” “popular culture,” and “popular religiosity” name separate categories? Or are they somehow related, intertwined, and at times even synonymous?

This conference includes transdisciplinary research related to traditions represented by Claremont Graduate University’s religious councils: Catholicism, Coptic Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Mormonism, Protestantism, and Zoroastrianism, as well as other religious traditions.


Keynote Address

J. Gordon Melton
Distinguished Professor of American Religious History
Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University

 

Registration fees

$10 registration for Claremont students, staff, and faculty (lunch included)

$20 registration for non-Claremont attendees (lunch included)

Click HERE to register for the conference and to purchase conference T-shirts.

Please direct questions to the conference chair, Donald Westbrook, at
religion.events@cgu.edu.

The School of Religion thanks the National Endowment for the Humanities and Claremont Graduate University’s Transdisciplinary Studies Program for generous support of the Fifth Annual Religions in Conversation Conference.

]]> http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/02/the-5th-annual-religions-in-conversation-conference/feed/ 0 Our Babel of Bibles:Scripture, Translation & the Possibility of Spiritual Understanding by David Lyle Jeffrey http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/02/our-babel-of-biblesscripture-translation-the-possibility-of-spiritual-understanding-by-david-lyle-jeffrey/ http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/02/our-babel-of-biblesscripture-translation-the-possibility-of-spiritual-understanding-by-david-lyle-jeffrey/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:22:35 +0000 Frances_Malone http://www.baylorisr.org/?p=6987 From the perspective of one who values freedom of choice, individualism, and the market, the proliferation of new translations and paraphrases of the Bible must seem, on the whole, a good thing. From a perspective that places a greater value on theological probity, spiritual understanding in the laity, and coherence in the witness of the Church, however, the plethora of English translations and the Babel-like confusion of tongues they create is arguably a calamity. While every new translation is evidently a “market opportunity” and may express in some way the particular slant or voice of individual denominations on certain doctrines, the dissonance and “white noise” of competing Bibles tends to confuse rather than clarify discussion across denominational boundaries. In fact, the “Babel effect” intensifies the confusion.

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BY JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN

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