Tag Archives: Religion
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. 509 – Capable Women
Defenders of God
Bruce Lawrence discusses his most recent book, Defenders of God: the Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age (Harper and Row, 1989). 504 – Defenders of God
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. 500 – Religion and Community
Posted in Episodes, Hill, Marvin S., Meehan-Waters, Brenda
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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. 425 … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Feal, Rosemary G., Nord, Warren, Sharp, Ronald A., Stewart, Joan Hinde
Tagged Literary Criticism, Religion
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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. … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Gass, William H., Peterson, Indira V., Yocum, Glenn E.
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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. 422 … Continue reading
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The Goddess and the Dreadful Practice
Paul Courtright speaks about his study of the Indian phenomenon of suttee, or self-immolation, entitled “The Goddess and the Dreadful Practice.” At the time of this interview, Courtright, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1987-88), was professor of religion at … Continue reading
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(1) Will Religion Destroy the World?; (2) Commentary on 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?” He makes particular reference to the Middle East, Northern Ireland, and Sri Lanka, and comments that … Continue reading
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Creating the Constitution
Is the Constitution of the United States an ideal blueprint for politics in the late twentieth century? Or should we, in the words of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, resist a “complacent belief” in the wisdom of the framers of … Continue reading
Posted in Conrad, Stephen A., Curtis, Michael Kent, Episodes, Wilson, John F.
Tagged Constitution, Law, Politics, Religion, U.S. Constitution
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