InterVarsity wishes to announce a national conference for graduate students, faculty, and professionals Following Christ 2008, which will take place 27-31 December 2008, in Chicago at the Marriott Magnificent Mile hotel. The conference themse is human flourishing. For more information vist the conference websight: www.followingchrist.org
You are cordially invited to participate in ICSA VII. World Congress on: "Christianity & Democracy: Jacques Maritain in Perspective," Pasadena, California, USA, 30 October-2 November 2008. Fully-developed papers will be considered for publication in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies XXI 2009. Please send 250-word Abstracts via e-mail to: info@JIS3.org Web site: www.JIS3.org/icsavii.htm
Forthcoming a fascinating thematic volume of the Journal of
Interdisciplinary Studies XX 2008 on: "Globalization & Its Discontents:
Modernization, Culture and Religion." Preliminary Contents at:
www.JIS3.org/contents2008.htm
To reserve your copy: www.JIS3.org/invoice.htm
Back volumes of this refereed thematic annual are available, but early
volumes of JIS I-XI 1989-1999 are reserved for acquisition by libraries
for which we recommend the entire interconnected thematic series. For colleagues who would like to familiarize themselves with the scope
and promise of interdisciplinary studies, JIS shows why
interdisciplinary approaches are needed to find solutions to dilemmas
confronting humanity in the 21st century. Dr. Gruenwald is also
available for speaking engagements, especially re the relevance of
interdisciplinary methodologies to college-level Honors Programs. We'd appreciate it if you would share this information with colleagues
via print, phone, or online. Thanks and God bless. Wishing you a
pleasant summer and hope to see you in Pasadena in October.
Oskar Gruenwald, Ph.D., JIS Editor
Institute for Interdisciplinary Research
International Christian Studies Association
1065 Pine Bluff Dr., Pasadena, CA 91107, USA
Phone: 1-626-351-0419; Web: www.JIS3.org
E-mail: info@JIS3.org
The University of Oxford’s Ian Ramsey Centre and the Centre for Anthropology and Mind are accepting applications for research proposals in the area of Cognitive Science of Religion and Theology (£800,000 to award in total). Applications are invited from scholars of any nationality post-Masters level or equivalent and beyond. We seek proposals for focused, one- or two-year projects that address either the evidential needs of the cognitive science of religion or explore the philosophical and theological implications of assumptions and findings in the field. An initial round of awards will be made in summer 2008. We anticipate awarding approximately 15 grants in this first round (including all four two-year grants in summer 2008) between June 2008 and May 2009. For further information please visit the Cognition, Religion and Theology project page of the Ian Ramsey Centre website http://users.ox.ac.uk/~theo0038/index.html or the website of the University of Oxford’s Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology http://www.icea.ox.ac.uk/research/cognitionreligiontheology/CognitionReligionTheology.html. Email: anth.crt@herald.ox.ac.uk
James Gerrie is pleased to announce a recent publication of his advisor, Dr. Jay Newman, Pious Pro-Family Rhetoric: Postures and Paradoxes in Philosophical Perspective, published with Peter Lang Publishing, 2007. This book examines the contemporary media debate between traditionalists and progressivists over religion, the family, and culture. Consideration of this persistent and often fierce debate reveals much about the state of religion in Western democracies.
One of our members, Dr. John Leslie, has recently published Immortality Defended, Blackwell Publishing, April 2007. Might we be parts of a divine mind? Could anything like an afterlife make sense? Starting with a Platonic answer to why the world exists, Immortality Defended defends a belief in immortality, without the need for a religious affiliation or rejection of modern science. This study draws from the work of a wide-range of philosophers, from ancient Greece to the present day.
Ken Bryson is pleased to announce the appearance of the third volume in the Philosophy and Religion (PAR) special series:
Ponomareff C and Kenneth Bryson (2006) The Curve of the Sacred: An
Exploration of Human Spirituality. Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi
B.V., Value Inquiry Book Series, volume number 178. 217 pages.
According to Ken, one of the things he hopes to accomplish with this book is to ground the possibility of doing PAR in spirituality. Ken defines "spirituality" as a loving tendency towards something greater than ourselves.
Michael Stoeber of the CSCP-SCPC would like to announce his new book, Reclaiming Theodicy: Reflections on Suffering, Compassion and Spiritual Transformation (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). For more information about the book check out the Palgrave US web-page description of the book. Also, the UK web-page includes access to Chapter 1 and the index..
A list of conferences of interest to Christian Philosophers is maintained by William Sweet of St. Francis Xavier University.
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