{"id":222,"date":"2008-10-10T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T17:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/fridaylunch\/?p=222"},"modified":"2024-06-06T17:56:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:56:38","slug":"presidential-ecotheologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/fridaylunch\/2008\/10\/10\/presidential-ecotheologies\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENTIAL ECOTHEOLOGIES"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"blackTimothy K. Beal<\/span>, Ph.D. – Florence Harkness Professor of Religion and Director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University<\/h5>\n

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Friday October 10, 2008
\n12:30-1:30 p.m.
\nCrawford Hall – Room 9
\nInamori Center
\nCase Western Reserve University<\/h5>\n

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Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems to me,\u201d Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, \u201cthat I can see the entire destiny of America contained in the first Puritan who came ashore.\u201d American political thinking is permeated by religious attitudes and metaphors, from the civil rights movement to President Reagan\u2019s (and John Winthrop\u2019s) \u201ccity on the hill.\u201d At the same time, every religion instructs its believers about humanity\u2019s relationship to nature; and environmental and ecological movements even have some of the attributes of religion, defining human beings\u2019 obligations to each other and to the entire world, within beliefs about creation and destruction.<\/p>\n

Political attitudes about the environment therefore are highly likely to be driven, whether in obvious or subtle ways, by religious beliefs. In this election year, then, what is the pattern of beliefs about religion and ecology held by political leaders, particularly presidents and candidates? We could not find a better person to lead a discussion of this timely question than Professor Beal, who not only teaches a course on religion and ecology, but is one of the most creative and productive scholars on our faculty. His most recent books are\u00a0Religion in America: A Very Short Introduction<\/em>, and\u00a0The End of the Word As We Know It<\/em>, both published this year.<\/p>\n

As usual, we will gather in Room 9 of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, on the lower level of Crawford Hall, for free cookies, beverages, and brown bag lunch.<\/p>\n

Best regards,
\nJoe White<\/p>\n

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About Our Guest<\/h3>\n

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Timothy K. Beal<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Professor Beal is the author of many books and articles, including\u00a0Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith<\/em>\u00a0(Beacon, 2005), which was a\u00a0New York Times Book Review<\/em>\u00a0Editor\u2019s Choice and one of\u00a0Publishers Weekly\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0ten best Religion Books of 2005;\u00a0Religion and Its Monsters<\/em>\u00a0(Routledge 2002), which was a\u00a0Reviews in Religion and Theology<\/em>\u00a0Editor\u2019s Choice; \u00a0and\u00a0The Book of Hiding: Gender, Ethnicity, and Annihilation in Esther<\/em>\u00a0(Routledge, 2007).\u00a0 He has published essays on religion and American culture for\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>,\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>, and\u00a0The Cleveland Plain Dealer.<\/em>\u00a0 Professor Beal is the co-editor, with Tod Linafelt of Georgetown University, of the book series Afterlives of the Bible with the University of Chicago Press, and he formerly directed the university\u2019s Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities.\u00a0 His website,\u00a0http:\/\/www.timothybeal.com<\/a>, provides an overview of his work, and an excerpt from his new book on Religion in America can be found at\u00a0http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/reader\/0195321073\/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:<\/h3>\n

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October 17:\u00a0Murder Genes and Dangerous Minds: New Roles for Genetics and Neuroscience in the Courts?<\/span>, with Gary Marchant, Lincoln Professor of Ethics in Law and Emerging Technology, Arizona State University.<\/strong><\/h6>\n

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October 24:\u00a0Seniors in the 2008 Election<\/span>\u00a0with Robert H. Binstock, Professor of Aging, Health and Society.<\/h6>\n

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October 31:\u00a0Halloween Special:<\/span>\u00a0Election Preview<\/span>\u00a0with Karen Beckwith, Professor of Political Science; Justin Buchler, Assistant Professor of Political Science; and Andrew Lucker, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science.<\/h6>\n

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November 7:\u00a0Responding to the Foreclosure Crisis<\/span>\u00a0with Jim Rokakis, Cuyahoga County Treasurer.<\/strong><\/h6>\n

November 14:\u00a0<\/strong>Charging for Car Insurance by the Mile: Good Business and Good for Energy and the Environment?<\/span>\u00a0With Richard Hutchinson, General Manager for the \u201cMy Rate\u201d program, Progressive Insurance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 21: TBA<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 28: Thanksgiving Break<\/strong><\/p>\n

December 5: TBA<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Friday Lunch discussions are held on the lower (ground) level of Crawford Hall.\u00a0 Visitors with mobility issues may find it easiest to take advantage of special arrangements we have made.\u00a0 On most Fridays, a few parking spaces in the V.I.P. lot in between Crawford Hall and Amasa Stone Chapel are held for participants in the lunch discussion.<\/p>\n

Visitors then can avoid walking up the hill to the first floor of Crawford by entering the building on the ground level, through the garage area under the building.\u00a0 The further door on the left in that garage will be left unlocked during the period before the Friday lunch.\u00a0 On occasion, parking will be unavailable because of other university events.<\/p>\n

For more information about these and other Center for Policy Studies programs, please see\u00a0http:\/\/policy.case.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Timothy K. Beal, Ph.D. – Florence Harkness Professor of Religion and Director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University
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\nFriday October 10, 2008
\n12:30-1:30 p.m.
\nCrawford Hall – Room 9
\nInamori Center
\nCase Western Reserve University
\n <\/p>\n

Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems to me,\u201d Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, \u201cthat I can see the entire destiny of America contained in the first Puritan who came ashore.\u201d American political thinking is permeated by religious attitudes and metaphors, from the civil rights movement to President Reagan\u2019s (and John Winthrop\u2019s) \u201ccity on the hill.\u201d At the same time,<\/p>\n

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