Illinois Forum on Religion in America
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Saving Faith / Killing Faith:
A Religious History of Violence and Restraint
"Religious Violence, Religious Healing"
Martin Marty
Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago
"Forget You: Heresy, Amalek, Annihilation, and Native Americans"
John Corrigan
Edwin Scott Gaustad Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Florida State University
"Screening Violence Beyond U.S. Borders: A Study of A History of Violence and The End of Violence"
S. Brent Plate
Assistant Professor of Religion and the Visual Arts at Texas Christian University
"From King Phillip's War to September 11: Religion, Violence, and the American Way"
Andrew Murphy
Associate Professor of Humanities and Political Philosophy at Valparaiso University
February 2, 2007
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Illini Union Room 407
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Violence, Faith, and America
"'Compel Them To Come In?': The Problem of Torture and Interrogation"
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago
"Religion, Resistance, and Revolt: Protestant Foundations of Rights and Revolutions"
John Witte, Jr.
Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Ethics, Director of the Law and Religion Program, and Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion at Emory University
"A Just War of Independence?"
John Carlson
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University
"From Jeremiad to Manifesto: The Rhetorical Evolution of John Foster Dulles's 'Massive Retaliation'"
Ned O'Gorman
Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at UIUC
April 20, 2007
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Illini Union Room 314B
Symposium on The Bible and Public Schools
Erik Owens
Center on Religion and Democracy, University of Virginia"Good Citizens and the Good Book: Should the Bible be Taught in America's Public Schools?"
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School"Litigating the Bible: Remembering the Cincinnati Bible Wars"
Mark Chancey
Southern Methodist University"Another Notch in the Bible Belt? The Fight over Bible Curricula in Odessa, Texas."
April 24, 2006 at 6.30pm
Reading Room, 1st floor, Levis Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana