Wackerlin Center for Faith Conference | June 10, 2004

Prof. Martin Forward, the executive Director of the Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action is informing us of the upcoming conference of his institute and the talk to be given by Professor Ursula King on the topic "What Can Women Do For Religion: Faith, Feminism and Human Flourishing?"

Dear friends:

I'm writing to tell you of this year's Aurora University Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action fall conference, to be held on Tuesday November 16th between 8.30 am and 2.30 pm. It is to be led by Ursula King.

URSULA KING STL (Paris), MA (Delhi) PhD (London), FRSA, is Professor Emerita and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol where she held the Chair in Theology and Religious Studies from 1989-2002, after teaching for many years at the University of Leeds, in London, and in India. She was Visiting Professor in Feminist Theology at the University of Oslo (1998-2001), and in 1999, she held the Brueggeman Chair in Interreligious Studies at Xavier University, Cincinnati. She is currently an Associate Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol and a Professorial Research Fellow of the Centre for Gender and Religions Research at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She also works as Consultant on Gender and Religion entries for the new edition of Macmillan’s Encyclopedia of Religion (New York, 2005). Her current research is concerned with aspects of contemporary spirituality, and with comparative gender perspectives in different world religions. She has been awarded honorary doctorates from Edinburgh University (1996), Oslo University (2000) and the University of Dayton, Ohio (2003).

She has published numerous books and articles, especially on women and spirituality, gender issues in world religions, and on the French thinker Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; she has also contributed to many broadcasts and TV programs. Among her recent publications are Christian Mystics. Their Lives and Legacies Throughout the Ages (London: Routledge, 2004), the edited volumes Gender, Religion and Diversity (Continuum, 2004), Spirituality and Society in the New Millennium (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2001) and Faith and Praxis in a Postmodern Age (London: Cassell 1998), the 1996 Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford: Christ in All Things. Exploring Spirituality with Teilhard de Chardin (London: SCM Press and Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1997) and Spirit of Fire: The Life and Vision of Teilhard de Chardin (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1996).

Professor King will speak on the topic: "What Can Women Do For Religion: Faith, Feminism and Human Flourishing?"

I would be very grateful if you would advertise this day widely, and I hope that you will be able to come. There will be a charge of $50, which will include lunch. Professor King's lectures will be between 9 am and 10.15 am, and 10.45 am and 12 noon. This will include time for questions. After lunch, there will be panel discussion from 1 pm to 2 pm.

For more information, or to book for this conference, please contact the Center for Faith and Action by e-mail at:

[email protected].

Thank you for your consideration.

As ever:

Martin

Professor Martin Forward

Executive Director

Wackerin Center for Faith and Action

Aurora University

347 South Gladstone Ave

Aurora

IL 60506-4892

Tel:630 844 6535

Posted by admin at June 10, 2004 04:45 PM