Pre-Colloquium Event - Wednesday March 29, 2006



Colloquium Schedule - Thursday March 30, 2006

Sessions 1A through IXA will be offered from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Morris University Center, Upper Floor and at the Religious Center. Sessions may be presented concurrently. Coffee and water are provided. The Plenary Session will be held from 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. in the Meridian Ballroom.

Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Session IA MUC, Missouri Room

Political Islam Chair: Steve Tamari

Lucian Stone, Philosophy

Children of Heaven: Islam and Politics in Iranian Cinema

Robert Ware, Philosophy

Centuries of Conflict: Prospects for Political Islam in the Russian Sphere of Influence

Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Session IB MUC, Hickory-Hackberry Room

Comparative Religion Chair: Wendy Shaw

Bin Zhou, Geography

Interpreting Chinese Ancestor Worship: A Personal Perspective

Akram Khalifa, Modern Languages & Literature (Emporia State)

Islam and Muslims: Myth and Realities

Jon Durrett, English Language & Literature

Hinduism American Style: A Participation Observation of

Sri Sathya Sai

Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Session IIA MUC, Redbud Room

Goddess Worship Chair: Allison Thomason

Chris Proctor, Economics and Finance

Neo-Paganism in the 21st Century – How Goddess Worship has Evolved

Karen Stoeber, University Museum

Goddess: Cross-Cultural Images of Women

Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Session IIB MUC, Missouri Room

Indigenous American Religious Traditions

Rowena McClinton, Historical Studies

Disparate Mysteries of Blood: Early Nineteenth Century Cherokee and Moravian Spiritual World Views

George Linden, Philosophy (Emeritus)

Lakota Myths of the Winds

Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Session IIC MUC, Maple Room

Ethics and Morality Chair: Kent Neely

Roger Boyd, Social Work

What is Ethics?

Anthony M. Denkyirah, Special Education/Communications

Treatment of Women, Children, the Elderly, and Individuals with Disabilities under Akan Indigenous Religion in Ghana

Chris Lynch and Jessica Kerr, Pharmacy

Morality and Pharmaceutical Care

Thursday 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Session IIIA Religious Center

Divine Design: Presentation and Museum Exhibit

Chair: Tom Lavallee

Cory Willmott, Anthropology; Cary Harvengt, Museum Studies;

Laura Rhoades Stovall, Museum Studies; Jeff Forster, Art and Design; Jiyun Nam, Art Therapy; Don Crumley, Psychology

And International Student Team Leaders

Sacred Arts of Africa and Asia

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Divine Design: Sacred Arts of Africa and Asia

Museum Exhibit Opening in the Religious Center

Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 4:00 p.m.

Host: Greg Fields Curator: Cory Willmott

Presentations: Anushiya Sivanarayanan, Associate Professor of English Rudy Wilson, Assistant Provost for Social and Cultural Diversity

(Refreshments Served)

Thursday 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Open Forum Goshen Lounge

Cartoons and Conflict: Respect for Religion and Freedom of Speech Chair: Steve Tamari

Participants: Abdallah Ahmed, Anthony Dietz, Ayse Evrensel, Michaela Hoenicke-Moore, Nabil Kaali, Prof. Kimberly Voss

Audience participation encouraged in the discussion of the controversy and violence following the recent publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

Thursday 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Session IVA MUC, Hickory-Hackberry Room

Athens and Jerusalem Chair: Chad Verbais

Carl Springer, CAS

Moses, Socrates, and Leo Strauss

Sang-Ki Kim, Philosophy (Emeritus)

Monotheism as a Political Problem

Eric Ruckh, History

The Hidden Legacy of Jesus: Friendship, Politics, and Nietzsche

J.M. Van Der Laan, Foreign Languages (Illinois State)

The American Wedding of Church and State

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Thursday 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Session IVB Religious Center

Interpretation of the Gospel Chair: Greg Fields

Daniel Rachell, Speech Communications

Is There More? An Introduction to Non-canonical Gospels and other Judeo-Christian Writing

Gary Wallace

The (Gospel) of Jesus According to Hematology

Thursday 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Session VA MUC, Maple Room

Stand-up Religion

Denise DeGarmo, Political Science

Duff Wrobbel, Speech Communication

Are you there, God? It’s me George.

Thursday 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Session VB MUC, Missouri Room

Religion in German Literature

Chair: Belinda Carstens-Wickham

Belinda Carstens-Wickham, Foreign Languages & Literature

Ödön von Horväth and Religion

Richard Chamberlin, Foreign Languages & Literature

Tyrannicide and Martyrdom: Christian Resistance to the Nazis in Alfred Andersch and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Doug Simms, Foreign Languages & Literature

Reflections of the Donation of Constantine and Papal Auctoritas in the Old Saxon Heliand

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Thursday 1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Session VC Religious Center

Religion and Morality Chair: Greg Fields

Jennifer Duncan, Political Science

Sex and Religion: Is “Living in Sin” Really a Sin?

Bill Demsar, Philosophy

Against Materialistic Moral Realism

Thursday 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Session VIA MUC, Redbud Room

The Economics of Religion Chair: Lynn Maurer

Garett Jones, Economics and Finance

Is God Good for Growth? Religion and National Economic Performance

Richard Wolfel, Geography

A Tale of Two Frauenkirches: The Use of Religious Landscapes in East and West German National Development

Thursday 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Session VIB MUC, Mississippi-Illinois Room

Religion and Philosophy Chair: Ellen Nore

Tom Paxson, Philosophy

Religion and Politics within a Religious Perspective: Oikonomia

Andrew Weeks, Foreign Languages (Illinois State)

Thinking about the Separation of the Sacred and Secular

Michael Moore, Historical Studies

The Sublime Stoicism of Leibniz

Robert Ware, Philosophy

Hegel’s Politics of Spiritual Expression

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Thursday 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Session VIIA MUC, Dogwood Room

Roundtable Discussion

Larry LaFond, Joel Hardman, English Language & Literature

Faith and Language: The Role of Religion in Applied Linguistics

Session VIIB MUC, Missouri Room

Literary Religion Chair: John Savoie

Joe Aaron Sellers, English Language & Literature

The Epistles of Saint Rufus to the Churches in Illinois

John Savoie, English Language & Literature

Literary Responses to Biblical Creation: Johnson, Lewis, Milton and Jesus

Thursday 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Session VIIIA MUC, Maple Room

Poetry and Art as Religious Expression

Chair: Steve Brown

Ivy Cooper, Art and Design

“Be a Professional”: L. Ron Hubbard’s Philosophy of Art and the Church of Scientology

Janella Moy, English Language & Literature

Wordsworth’s Non-human Storytellers and the Speaking Face of Nature

Notes

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Thursday 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Session VIIIB MUC, Hickory-Hackberry Room

The Black Church Chair: Reggie Thomas

Venessa Brown, Social Work; Maruice Mangum, Political Science; Thomas Regulus, Social Work; Andrew Theising, Political Science

Historical, Cultural, Social, and Political Perspectives

Thursday 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Session IXA MUC, Mississippi-Illinois Room

Performance

Tim Huffman and Meredith Bell, Philosophy

Nihilism to Enlightment: But if There is No Spoon, How Do

I Eat My Soup?

Notes

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Plenary Session Meridian Ballroom

Thursday, March 30, 2006, 7:00 p.m.

Welcome: Dean Kent Neely

Introduction: Associate Dean Carl Springer

Stanley Fish

Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of

Humanities and Law, Florida International University

“Is It Good for the Jews?”

*For ticket information please contact 650-5044 CAS Dean's Office.

Notes

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Presentation Schedule-Friday March 31, 2006

Sessions XA through XIIB offered from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday in the Morris University Center, Upper Floor and the Religious Center. Sessions may be presented concurrently. Coffee/water is made available.

Friday 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Session XA MUC, Hickory-Hackberry Room

Science and Religion

Chair: Greg Fields

Greg Fields, Philosophy

Themes in Current National and International Dialogue on Science and Religion: Introduction of the WoRKS Group (World Religions, Knowledge, and Science), Edwardsville

Abdullatif Hamad, Physics

Islam and Science

Carlee Hawkins, Psychology

The Role of Religiosity and Need for Cognition in the Acceptance of Evolution

Session XB MUC, Mississippi-Illinois Room

Religious Perspectives Effects on Justice

Chair: Brian Harward

Lynn Maurer, Political Science

Karla Armbruster, English Language (Webster U.)

Thinking about Dogs and Gods

Gerry O’Brien, Social Work

Before the Genome: Religion and Eugenics from 1900-1945

Connie Frey, Sociology and Criminal Justice

The Influence of Quakerism on Peacemaking Criminology

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Friday 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Session XIA MUC, Maple Room

Religion and Power Chair: Brian Harward

Anthony Cheeseboro, Historical Studies

Secularism and the Freedom Movements in South Africa and

the United States

Jared Larsen, Modern Languages & Literature (Emporia State)

Evangelical Fundamentalism, Executive Power, and US

Foreign Policy

Rick Maurer, Political Science (Alumnus)

Between God and Lenin: Politics, Religion, and Nationalism in the former Soviet Union

Session XIB MUC, Oak Room

Panel Presentation Chair: Chad Verbais

(Dis) Empowering the Divine

Kelly Schmickle, Erin Barber, Erin Vonnahme, Jessi Wilson

English Language & Literature

Friday 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Session XIC Religious Center

Chair: Greg Fields

Yoga, Meditation, and Health: An Applied and Interactive Presentation

Leonard Perlmutter, Founding Director, American Meditation Institute, Albany, New York

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Friday 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Session XIIA MUC, Maple Room

Making a Good Faith Effort Chair: Charles Berger

Paul Pitts, Office of Institutional Compliance

Religion in the Workplace and Classroom: Making a Good Faith Effort to Accommodate

Ann Riley, Library

Religion and the Library: Toward Pluralism and Historical Perspective

Friday 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Session XIIB MUC, Hickory-Hackberry Room

Sacrifice: A Dialogue with the Ancient World

Chair: Eric Ruckh

Robert Hahn, Philosophy (SIUC)

Violence, Anxiety, and the Origins of Greek Sacrifice

Nancy Ruff, English Language & Literature

Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece

Carl Springer, CAS

Religio and Religion

This concludes the 2006 CAS Colloquium.

Thank you for your participation and attendance.

Please see page 12 for details of a Saturday event that you may also be interested in attending:

Celebration of World Faiths: Science and Religion

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Celebration of World Faiths: Science and Religion*

Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.

Held at the Religious Center- Southern Illinois University Campus, Edwardsville, call 618-650-3246 for information

Teilhard, Evolutionary Theory and Christian Theology

Rev. Joseph Fortier SJ, Dept. of Biology, Saint Louis University

Islam and the History of Science and Optics

Abdullatif Hamad, Department of Physics, SIUE

Philosophy of Health in Hinduism and Ayurvedic Medicine

Leonard Perlmutter, Director of the American Meditation Institute, Albany, New York

Complementary Ethnic Appetizers will be served.

Open to the Public and no charge for campus parking.

* Sponsored by: World Religions, Knowledge, and Science

(WoRKS) Group, Edwardsville

An initiative of the Metanexus Institute of Science and Religion

Notes

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