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| Tuesday November 8th, 2011 |
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Is Secularism Dead?
Religious Extremists, New Atheists and the Fight for America's Soul
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
12:00pm
Fishbowl Chapel, University Religious Center
Lunch will be provided.
Jacques Berlinerblau, Director of the Program for Jewish Civilization and Associate Professor of Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University, received doctorates in sociology (New School for Social Research) and Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literatures (NYU). He is the author of Thumpin' It: The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Today's Presidential Politics (Westminster John Knox, 2008), The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibility of American Intellectuals (Rutgers University Press, 1999).
Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Research Group of the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC School of Religion, USC Knight Chair in Religion and Media, the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics and the Louchheim School for Judaic Studies at USC.
RSVP to louchheim@usc.edu by Mon, Nov 14th.
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