 The
Global Reach of American Christianity
Lecture by Robert Wuthnow, Ph.D.
6:30 p.m.
April 14, 2008
Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union
University of Missouri-Columbia
Robert Wuthnow is chair of the Sociology Department at Princeton
University, where he teaches sociology of religion and cultural
sociology. He is the author of numerous books, including "America
and the Challenges of Religious Diversity"
and "After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings
Are Shaping the Future of American Religion." He also has
edited a new edition of the "Encyclopedia of Politics and
Religion." Wuthnow is directing a Lilly-funded project on
the global reach of Christian organizations in the United States.
The lecture is based on work done by Wuthnow and his research
team showing that the global reach of American Christianity
has been expanding in recent years. The lecture discusses this
expansion, examines its sources, and considers the challenges
it poses for the nation and the Christian community. It explores
globalization's flow of information, goods, people and other
resources across national boundaries; American churches' influence
in other countries; and how churches may shape American attitudes
toward hunger, poverty, foreign aid and military involvement.
The lecture is part of a lecture series organized by the MU
Department of Religious Studies.
 Sponsored
by the University of Missouri-Columbia Department of Religious
Studies and the Center on Religion
& the Professions
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